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I think I probably assume a greater power in certain cultural memes in shaping perception at every level than almost anyone I’ve met. All insight breaks down to pattern-matching & if the constraints are mediated by culture to the extent I think they are, heterogeneity is crucial
I expect there’s a feedback loop between culture & typical experiences that constrains the kinds of thinking that are (in a very real sense) possible at all. One way to look at “tribe”/shared reality/social cohesion is as an emergent property of people who *cannot* deviate much
I don’t think it’s coincidental that so many people who think or do interesting things are both smart & super weird socially. They have socially cohesive memes, too, but they tend to deal with the object-level stuff much less
Hmm. Theres something to this. "Tribe" in pejorative sense seems mostly about common biases. So ways they think, without realizing they're thinking at all. Yes. Hard to deviate. "Tribe" in positive sense conjures psych. safety, where (at least iterative) deviation is supported
Yet people are also extremely, unfathomably diverse. Each one is a world.
Is this a difference between you and Steven Pinker? He usually stresses the uniformity of human nature across cultures.
When I cogitate on such things I tend to wonder most about why actual tribal peoples of the past (and ones who are still around to this day) have a static modality.
Their social cohesion was rock solid and they were dynamic in the sense that they could adapt to natural changes e.g., seasons, inner/outer tribal strife but there was no "advancement". By "advancement" I mean in the technological sense.
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