Nature != Culture

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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:52 pm

Jay G wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
Jay G wrote:What's a Yorkie Bar? :dono:
Wrong.

How can a question be wrong?
:fp: Yorkie bars are wrong.
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Kristie » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:52 pm

Jay G wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
Jay G wrote:What's a Yorkie Bar? :dono:
Wrong.

How can a question be wrong?
Because he's Zilla, and nothing he posts makes sense. :tea:
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Thinking Aloud » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:54 pm

Gawdzilla wrote: :fp: Yorkie bars are wrong.
Yorkie bars are not wrong.

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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:57 pm

Kristie wrote:
Jay G wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
Jay G wrote:What's a Yorkie Bar? :dono:
Wrong.

How can a question be wrong?
Because he's Zilla, and nothing he posts makes sense. :tea:
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Feral_Punctuation » Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:22 pm

Jay G wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
Jay G wrote:What's a Yorkie Bar? :dono:
Wrong.

How can a question be wrong?
Wrong again.
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:27 pm

Feral_Punctuation wrote:
Jay G wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
Jay G wrote:What's a Yorkie Bar? :dono:
Wrong.

How can a question be wrong?
Wrong again.
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:43 pm

Normal wrote:Society is culture. Farmed land is culture. Plastic is culture. Cigarettes are culture. Everything humans change/create is culture. It is of course derived from nature, and uses nature as building bricks. But it is not nature.
Dan Dennett would disagree.

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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by ScholasticSpastic » Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:18 pm

In ethology, culture is defined as any behavior which is learned rather than inherited. Things get complicated pretty quickly when one begins looking for ways to distinguish between the two. That's not the only possible confound, either.

Nature vs. Culture

reads just like

Nature vs. Nurture

which has been discarded by most ethologists.

The dichotomy is false. But what do I know? I'm just a regular biologist.
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Robert_S » Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:05 pm

Having large chunks of land remain undeveloped for the purpose of wildlife preservation is a meme.
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Trolldor » Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:10 pm

"Having large chunks of land remain undeveloped for the purpose of wildlife preservation is a meme" is a meme.
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