Reading thru your new piece, I think you nailed it on agency. He seems to ignore large swaths of agency formulations.
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Funny you mention envy/jealousy. If I were to pin his work down: he's exploring allistic herd-oriented minds only.https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/797724137393389568 …
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Tangent is
@naval's take on VC ecosystem, & how herd action is often artifact of other forces, not (just) mimesis: https://startupboy.com/2010/04/22/why-private-investors-are-herd-animals/ …1 reply 4 retweets 26 likes -
extremely important - mimesis and contagion accounts mostly miss concepts like convergent evolution, homophily, info costs
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I like that framing, fits notion of emotional contagion stemming from evolved heuristic for social orientation:https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/797651371386372096 …
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That we would have so much autonomous processing happening suggest its to speed up social inferences?https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brain-boasts-its-own-social-network/ …
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Fascinating to think that our fight-flight emotional system evolved to do double-duty. Artifact: Majority illusion?https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4757419/ …
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Oh hey, this talks about information diffusion in animals & how it's mediated by social value processing in brain:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4973104/ …
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I find that assumption of lack of agency often in ant research. It's really frustrating. Agent based models solve it https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/745464592688504832 …pic.twitter.com/kDZ3alPB4u
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Do you know if Girard did anything with functionalism? the idea of "social facts" seems like something that would stick well with his ideas.
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Émile Durkheim's stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_functionalism …
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he’s extremely critical of it and says it as a swear (or that’s how it reads to me)
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