A couple of days ago I mentioned, in a different context, the idea that humans minds are social but not cultural i.e. designed for life in small groups but not a world radically shaped by cultural factors. Mercier and Morin's new blogpost undermines a key counter-argument.https://twitter.com/hugoreasoning/status/1083008860460339200 …
Yes, there is an important question here (to what extent do we have to suppose conformism for fitness-enhancing cultural transmission?). But, again, the manioc case is only one (well-known but limited) case.
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Indeed. My hypothesis is that the answer to the question you put in parentheses could be: not at all.
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Absolutely! Though, as you once told me, the plural of anecdote *is* data! :o)
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Excuse me, when the anecdotes becomes data? What is the epistemological limit where one thing transforms into the other. I suspect that the contempt for the anecdote is wrong but will not know how to base it. Thank you
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