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You're missing my point.

I can learn how to do integration by reading Wikipedia or buying a book. The point is not that I'm learning from other individuals, but that the knowledge persists and exists externally and independently.

I can learn to play the blues by listening to recordings made by someone who died a long time ago. You're going to have a hard time convincing me there's any evidence of similar transmission in animals.

Tool use is not the point here.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Nov 22nd, 2013 at 08:47:07 AM EST
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