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Again a cheat, a youtube instead of a proper post (and I apologise for the, inaccurate, clickbaitey title). But this recounts much of my railing against (exclusive) genetic determinists… (Please note the […]

Oo… Strato #91 I’ll be back to this later. Up against deadlines, but I need to find escapes. In the meantime, I’ve been intending to post on meta-modernism. I’ve found this excellent, brief formulation […]

I’m with Chomsky in these contrasted critique’s of Post Modernism, at least regarding its academification (!) in 1950s French universities where hard scientist status was sky-rocketing.  But Peterson rather […]

So… the implications of “Determined” on our view of Post-Modernism is interesting. Whilst I have had my view on the PM “movement” softened by my son’s cogent arguments, and that at its heart PM tells a partial […]

Michael, Youtube pushed Jim Jeffries’ gun control set at me, instead of my usual Catalonian Jazz. A sensational piece of writing, intelligent, pungent and humane. This line… We have to walk as slow as our […]

Excellent summary, Michael. Bravo.

I’ve offered before that whilst I cannot bring myself to admit that property is theft (I like my things too much; they are my psychologically sustaining eco-system), I do believe that a cultural shift towards […]

Hi Marco. Wealth enables the acquisition of wealth more than genes, more than intelligence. With money you can wage-enslave any number of much cleverer folk to make and do your bidding. Worse, most wealth getting […]

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Strato #82 I should have written a lot more on #82, but this… … the Greeks had a wonderful literary culture, mythology, philosophical tradition, aesthetics. It creates selection pressure. …(perhaps like […]

Strato #82 #83 I think cleverness is sexy for those who are clever. I think cautiousness is sexy for the timid, kindness, ditto, etc., etc., etc.. I think neuro cognitive diversities drive selective mating and […]

Strato #79 This… Settled civilisation enabled intensified trade, reciprocity, writing, metallurgy, more lethal warcraft, hierarchy, religion. All this was driving intensified selection for intelligence, […]

Michael #75 The USA is the heart, the very (disease) vector of hyper-individualism. It is the most rewarding and punishing of individuals, enslaved to an ideology that is essentially born out of Western […]

Thanks, Michael. #73 I’m doing my usual job of speed reading the book. Its exactly what I wanted it to be, and I’ll re-visit many sections to pick up specific ammunition. I’m also thrilled that he is too much the […]

Oh, and here Sabine struggles towards my own views on the Principle of Least Action, the resulting occasional fruiting of organised complexity, and Life. I just go to the wire (or over the cliff) with organised […]

Very quick and apologies to those I owe a response to, but  I needed to throw in a (one!) physicist’s take on determinism… From the perspective of neuro-psychology I am a hard determinist. From the perspective […]

offg #73 Yep. We’ll get into it. Understanding the wider import of Sapolsky is essential so we can see how we, our minds, are manifestations of culture, but culture is the product of a small number of minds.

Lee #72 I think we have just scratched the surface of the gender aspect of personal identity. I have references to some solid cognitive affects of gender identity, but this is solid neuro-anatomy here in Robert […]

Let me put this here for discussion shortly…

As ever Greta is on the right side of common human decency. The left, the people who will do most of the planet-saving needed, are still plagued by an uncomfortable number of folk who will respond to dog whistles […]