‘grey parrots are capable of using existing known English words to create new labels for objects which the bird does not know the name. For example "banerry" ("banana" + "cherry") for "apple", "banana crackers" for "dried banana chips" or "yummy bread" for "cake".’
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I’ve always wanted to go spend an afternoon talking to one of these guys, and to visit a crow, and neither seems possible. It’s such a fascinating intelligence.
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this suggests they have second order combinatorial thinking which means they're susceptible to memes
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unified meme theory draws on this paper, "Embodiment vs. Memetics," by Joanna Bryson. she says humans have a special combination of temporal imitation and second order thinking that creates semantic space fertile for memetic vectors
preprint pdf here cs.bath.ac.uk/~jjb/ftp/memet
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