decreasing EQ/increasing group size - is culture is a get-out-of-Dunbar's-number free card? https://www.pelicanbooks.com/the-domesticated-brain/preface …pic.twitter.com/aKtdYAWbAG
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decreasing EQ/increasing group size - is culture is a get-out-of-Dunbar's-number free card? https://www.pelicanbooks.com/the-domesticated-brain/preface …pic.twitter.com/aKtdYAWbAG
Culture is a reality management and group coordination device so valuable it's worth more than a tennis ball of brain.
@sarahdoingthing Eh, brains are overrated. Most people can get along fine without much of one. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors.html#.VKTx5kZXeJI …
@Meaningness I love those stories - possibly not even that uncommon!
@sarahdoingthing It does raise call into question the validity of EQ, though.
Sister Sarah Retweeted Sister Sarah
@Meaningness oh yeah see https://twitter.com/sarahdoingthing/status/550547240129810433 … - makes dunbar's number as a hard limit for moderns make even less sense
Sister Sarah added,
@sarahdoingthing So do you have a new take on optimal group size?
@Meaningness ignorance - "group" doesn't mean what it used to, people vary in how many other humans they can simulate (maybe 1000+ for some)
@sarahdoingthing :-) autists are responsible for all human progress because we have spare cycles to do something besides alliance management
@Meaningness this makes me wonder if the heroic neanderthals were maybe LESS autistic than us instead of more as I tend to imagine
@sarahdoingthing tbf human progress does depend on alliance management, it’s just tedious work best left to monkeys.
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