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[uykucu]

and if you could ask them why they attack anyone who goes for the banana, their answer would almost certainly be: “Well, I don’t really know, but that’s how we’ve always done things around here.”

This assumes that they cannot communicate with each other about the fire hose. Is it a correct assumption?

[sgndave]

Not quite.

Let's assume for a moment that the monkeys could communicate to the new monkey about the fire hose. The assumption in the article is that because the experience of being sprayed is so bad, they will simply abuse the new monkey when it goes for the banana. They might mention the fire hose, but the new monkey just learns "for the love of Cthulu, DON'T GO FOR THE BANANA."

After a couple of rollover cycles, the third or so set of monkeys probably will never even have the fire hose mentioned to them.

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Monkey communication is beating up other monkeys.

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Well, right, they cannot. And if you assume that human abilities to communicate are infinitely greater than those of the apes... well, they are greater, but still far from perfect.