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09 Aug 2010 at 09:11
Peter Risdon
Blank slate, Free market, Just interesting, Politics, economics, evolution
Cut through some of the fluff that surrounds this 20 minute talk, and the core is completely fascinating.
Laurie Santos has been experimenting with “monkeynomics”. She has taught a group of monkeys to use money – metal discs – to pay for treats then after straightforward “purchases” of treats, one grape for one disc, become routine [...]
From TED. Our ancestors must have been very like these creatures. I hadn’t realised how well they can understand full spoken sentences. They have also learned to write in a symbolic script. There is surely a moral duty for us to leave their habitat alone and allow them to develop unhindered. And medical experimentation on [...]