Xref: utzoo sci.misc:2849 sci.psychology:1164 comp.ai:2740 comp.ai.neural-nets:349 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!pasteur!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!logicon.arpa!Makey From: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey) Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.psychology,comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Re: Learned Behavior vs. Hard-Wired Behavior Message-ID: <208@logicon.arpa> Date: 30 Nov 88 01:27:11 GMT References: <1824@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> Organization: Future Procrastinators of America Lines: 21 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, >even as remote as that of Australian aborigines. Laughing, smiling, >speech, fighting and sexual behaviors, all are found in all >genetic stocks. 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. :: Jeff Makey Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department Disclaimer: Logicon doesn't even know we're running news. Internet: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA UUCP: {nosc,ucsd}!logicon.arpa!Makey