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Article #1105Re: Learned Behavior vs. Hard-Wired Behavior
From: plaice
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1988 17:38
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1988 17:38
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In article <208@logicon.arpa> Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey) writes: >In article <1824@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Gordon E. Banks) writes: >>A good guide to what is innate >>in humans is to look for behavior that exists in all cultures, > >A behavior that I once thought existed in all human cultures was >nodding ones head up and down to mean "yes" and shaking from side to >side to mean "no." According to my girlfriend, who works for a >company that does international trading, there is at least one place >where this is not true. I don't remember exactly where it is (Asian >continent, I think) but they nod for "no" and shake for "yes." Their >word for "yes" even sounds like "nih", which would be taken for a "no" >in many languages. The country in question is Greece, which is hardly in Asia! Travelling through Greece can be quite amusing! -- John PLAICE (+1) 604/721.7299 Dept. of Computer Science plaice@uvunix.uvic.ca University of Victoria ...!ubc-vision!uvicctr!plaice Victoria, B.C. CANADA V8W 2Y2
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!uvicctr!plaice From: plaice@uvicctr.UUCP (plaice) Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.psychology,comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Re: Learned Behavior vs. Hard-Wired Behavior Message-ID: <561@uvicctr.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 88 17:38:16 GMT References: <1824@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <208@logicon.arpa> Reply-To: plaice@uvicctr.UUCP () Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada Lines: 23