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RIght, but the main thing that separates humans are their culture

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Aug 11, 2017

Replying to @VinceFHorn @VincentHorn and 3 others

All of these can be true on different levels of analysis. In animal life terms, primacy of biology self-evident. We know of no shark cities.

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Yet, you have just separated out sapiens as a species; argument from biology. But biology ≠ our concepts of it. A lot we call biology isn't.

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Sure, but what made us Sapiens was our pre-Sapien culture. Read Henrich "The Secret of Our Success"

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That's an unprovable assertion, I think, but an interesting idea. Will have a look.

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Everything is unprovable, but his argument is very convincing with many examples

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Sorry, meant 'unfalsifiable', hence not authoritative. As said I'll have a look. I try to avoid passing ideas off, unless they bore me.

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But I'm a shameless skeptic (I think). I try to pare my beliefs down to simple axioms, heuristics and experiential & experimental 'proof'.

8:19 PM · Aug 11, 2017Twitter for Android

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That is a good approach!