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This is an endearing story about Washoe who, like Coco, could communicate
with sign language. (Also a small but interesting comment about
Chomsky's and Pinker's views on sign language.)<br><br>
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/31/signing.chimp.dies.ap/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/31/signing.chimp.dies.ap/index.html<br>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha</a>
<a href="http://www.natasha.cc/"> Vita-More</a>
<dd>PhD Candidate, Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, situated in the
Faculty of Technology,
<dd>School of Computing, Communications and Electronics,
<dd>University of Plymouth, UK
<dd><a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts &
Culture</a>
<dd><a href="http://extropy.org/">Thinking About the
</a><a href="http://extropy.org/">Future</a> <br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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