The Knowlege Economy: Grinding the Monkey

[Kenneth Warren]

“Keith Chen’s Monkey Research,â€Â

[Stephen Calhoun]

Very interesting and not surprising.

One thing: the connotations of money confuse the description of the Capuchin experiment in its publicized form. In technical terms the monkeys are manipulating *tokens*, since they don't know money from nothin'; (don't know tokens either, yet it's a bit clearer designate.)

There is an implication for human experiment in this because the language matters and is potentially plastic and could flow with new modes into new 'signs'.

[Jim O'Bryan]

[quote="Kenneth Warren"]“...Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Litt note “But in a clean and spacious laboratory at Yale-New Haven Hospital, seven capuchin monkeys have been taught to use money, and a comparison of capuchin behavior and human behavior will either surprise you very much or not at all, depending on your view of humans.â€Â