"man is a social animal" sounds all fluffy bunnies but what it means is that there are deep structures in your brain that try to kill you if your perception of your social status is too low. in Dunbar-number-sized social groups most people could clear this bar. most now can't
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Replying to @chaosprime @clockworkwhale
Deep structures in each of our individual brains? Reeeeally? How retro-Chomskian is that? The 'perceived' meaning of my social status is something grasped only by means of mimesis (the highest of 'animal functions'), and is therefore a meaning shared. And the means by which....
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.. any meaning is SHARED will never, ever be located within an individual brain.
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Replying to @scenichypothes1 @clockworkwhale
great example of reasoning that's intuitive, well-supported by the literature, and wrong. thanks, those are always handy
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