I mostly agree, apart from antiquity of speech. The more we go, the older it gets. See for instance :
https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/bones-of-stone-age-boy-challenge-single-origin-theory-of-modern-humans "Bones of Stone Age boy challenge single-origin theory of modern humans. DNA analysis points to no one cradle of humanity but a whole African nursery." On 13 March 2018 at 18:58, Morlock Elloi <morlockel...@gmail.com> wrote: > These distinctions (humans, animals, machines) are artificial and not > helpful (also a slippery slope - the end game in that direction is > racism/identity politics.) > > Speech is most likely a mutation only 50,000 years old (we didn't get > quite used to it yet.) The difference between the speech technology and > machine-mediated communications is centralization of the latter (everyone > controls own speech apparatus, electronic communications are controlled by > what - 20-30 people grand total?) > > The centralization is the only troublesome aspect of machines, and it > needs to be fixed. The rest is fine. > > > > > Oh, so you give into the idea of human resources? :) >> >> Well, I beg to differ: let's stay in the animal realm, one step below >> such artifice. >> > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: > -- Frederic
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