RE: Study shows brain can learn without really trying

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 12:18:03 GMT

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    Hi Vincent Campbell -

    >Perhaps culture has little to do with the perception of the
    >self and choice, and a lot more to do with behavioural algorithms like how
    >fish move in shoals or birds fly in flocks. I think Wade may have suggested
    >something like this, in our earlier discussion of such things.

    Thanks, but it's far from only my idea. Culture could certainly be a
    forest where we can't see around the trees.

    - Wade

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