Yes, obviously: emotional "displays have not evolved to provide a fixed read-out of internal states but rather to influence the behaviour of other people"https://twitter.com/amelapay/status/1000108333527904256 …
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Why is this theory “radical” and “new”? I think in “The Extended Phenotype”,
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Not true: there is genuine benefit in cooperation too. Which is why adversarial communication often attempts to mimic cooperative communication
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Not sure I see a contradiction between these hypotheses.
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"I think ... that ALL animal communication is an attempt to manipulate..."
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Replying to @Plinz @andy_m_wood and
A typical Left political manipulation of Darwinism, if I may say so! Animal communication is mostly about cooperating to mutualise Darwinian fitnesses via The Baldwin Effect (within which Dawkins reversed cause and effect and rebirthed as Memetics).
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Replying to @intelligent50 @andy_m_wood and
I don't think that the recourse to political camps helps rational arguments, because everyone has the unfortunate tendency to think that their political camp is the right one.
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Replying to @Plinz
I’ve just muted that guy. A quick skim of his tweets suggests it would be a terrible waste of time to engage with him.
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oh, you are right, it is a tragedy
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