Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:53:12 -0400
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: "Mark M. Mills" <mmills@htcomp.net>
Subject: Re: Re(2): Paper on chimp culture
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990629101523.007fec30@rongenet.sk.ca>
Lloyd,
At 10:15 AM 6/29/99 -0600, you wrote:
>At 08:16 PM 28/06/99 -0400, Mark M. Mills wrote:
>Consciousness / self-awareness probably developed in small
>incremental steps as the ability to communicate developed, each feeding on
>the other. It is impossible to say, therefore, that at some point a
>specific dividing line was cross and we suddenly had conversation (the same
>argument holds for the development of consciousness).
I agree. Are you willing to extend these small incremental steps all the
way back to the common ancestor we share with chimps?
Mark
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