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HUM4  Week  2  Notes    
Reading  #1,  up  to  page  103    
Rose  (Rosemary),  our  main  characters,  begins  her  story  in  the  middle,  during  her  
time  as  a  student  at  UC  Davis
...
 Through  a  series  of  hectic  events  and  a  night  in  jail,  she  
befriends  another  girl  named  Harlow,  who  remains  one  of  her  closet  companions  
throughout  the  story
...
 
Her  father  is  a  psychologist,  her  mother  has  spent  time  in  an  emotionally  depressed  
state  but  is  now  working  for  Planned  Parenthood  and  her  brother  Lowell,  has  been  
missing  in  action  for  quite  a  number  of  years  just  as  her  sister,  Fern,  has
...
 We  hear  several  detailed  memories  of  Rose’s  
time  with  Fern  and  learn  that  Rose  truly  regarded  her  as  a  sibling
...
   
1
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 Language  is  more  than  just  words,  it  is  the  order  of  words  and  the  way  one  
word  inflects  another
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 Umwelt  is  the  specific  way  each  particular  organism  experiences  the  world
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 The  stated  purpose  of  the  experiment  was  to  compare  and  contrast  developing  
abilities,  linguistic  and  otherwise
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 Eventually  the  purpose  was  to  determine  how  well  Fern  could  communicate  with  
Rose,  rather  than  how  well  Fern  could  communicate  with  humans
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 Fern  believed  she  was  human
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7
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Reading  #2,  up  to  page  209    
This  section  of  reading  shines  light  onto  the  journeys  of  both  Lowell  and  Fern
...
 She  describes  how  Lowell  was  a  star  baseketball  
player  and  was  accepted  to  Brown  University,  but  disappeared  one  night
...
 Rose  also  describes  how  Fern  was  suddenly  
removed  from  the  home,  how  she  woke  up  in  a  new  and  strange  house  and  how  the  
graduate  students  assisting  with  study  were  never  a  part  of  her  life  ever  again
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 We  learn  that  Lowell  has  spent  the  last  
several  years  both  in  search  of  Fern  and  fighting  for  animal  rights
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 When  he  finally  found  her,  
Fern  fiercely  protected  him  from  another  alpha  male  chimp  that  was  in  her  cage
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Tuesday  4/5/16  Lecture  Notes    
Of  Men  and  Monkeys    
“We  must  contemplate  the  shared  ground  of  our  common  biological  being  before  
emphasizing  the  differences”  –Gary  Snyder    
I
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 Continuism)  
A
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 Man  is  defined  by  reason,  which  is  allied  with  his  immaterial  soul  rather  
than  his  material  body  (the  human  is  absolutely  different  from  the  animal),  
discontinuist  thinking    
 

a
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 Aristotle  
1
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 Inspired  scientists    

II
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 Stated  that  humans  share  evolutionary  history  and  are  in  fact  descendents  
of  animals  ,“man  still  bears  in  his  bodily  frame  the  indelible  stamp  of  his  lowly  
origin”,  was  mocked  by  some    
III
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Jacques  Lacan:  “the  unconscious  is  structured  like  a  language”    
a
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How  do  we  talk  about  the  animal  when  they  don’t  posses  language?  How  
do  we  compare?    
C
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Humans  posses  self  before  animals  do,  can  recognize  their  own  
image  in  a  mirror  before  chimps  can,  Kohler  argues  this  is  
essential  in  intelligence    
IV
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chimps  are  capable  of  making  intellectual  leaps    
b
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Lacan’s  Response  to  Kohler:  distinction  between  internal  
experience  and  external  reality    
d
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Interesting  that  they  had  a  permanent  interest  in  the  mirrors  even  
though  the  reflections  provided  no  tangible  benefit  to  them    
V
...
 honey  bees  have  a  rudimentary  form  of  symbolic  communication  that  
fulfills  many  of  the  requirements  for  language    
b
...
 starlings  possess  recursive  grammar    
d
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 are  they  unable  to  communicate  or  are  we  unable  to  understand    
 
Other  distinctions  between  animals  and  humans    
Ability  to  life,  use  of  fire,  opposable  thumbs/dexterous  hands,  
pretentiousness  
By  all  of  these  standards,  the  child  inevitably  falls  into  the  category  of  the  
animal  (cannot  speak  and  is  uncoordinated)  and  therefore  language  acquisition  and  
adolescence  become  about  the  passage  from  the  animal  child  to  the  human  adult    



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