“Every civilization of which we have records has possessed a technology, an art, a religion, a political system, laws, and so on. In many cases those facets of civilization have been as developed as our own. But only the civilizations that descend from Hellenic Greece have possessed more than the most rudimentary science. The bulk of scientific knowledge is a product of Europe in the last four centuries.” (2nd edition, pp. 167-168) Via Stephen Hicks
Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology
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Kuhn on The Greeks’ Unique Creation of Scientific Culture
“Every civilization of which we have records has possessed a technology, an art, a religion, a political system, laws, and so on. In many cases those facets of civilization have been as developed as our own. But only the civilizations that descend from Hellenic Greece have possessed more than the most rudimentary science. The bulk of scientific knowledge is a product of Europe in the last four centuries.” (2nd edition, pp. 167-168) Via Stephen Hicks
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“Genetic deviation between groups is smaller than between individuals in the gro
—“Genetic deviation between groups is smaller than between individuals in the group.”—
That is a meaningless truism that easily fools the innumerate.
– ethnocentrism is the optimum group political strategy.
– markets the optimum economic strategy.
– eugenics the optimum group competitive strategy.
– neoteny the optimum genetic strategy.
Very minor variations in group genes produce very profound group outcomes.
It appears that a relatively small number of genes (in the thousands) produces 100% of the competitive variation between groups (symmetry, neoteny, dimorphism).
Meanwhile we have no idea how much of the genome is used (functional), which expressed (conditional), which unused (reserve) or noise (dead).
As such, “deviation between groups vs individuals” is in itself true but by implication a profound deception (fraud).
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 20:11:00 UTC
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Curt Doolittle shared a link. Retweeted Stephen R. C. Hicks (@SRCHicks): Kuhn on
Curt Doolittle shared a link.
Retweeted Stephen R. C. Hicks (@SRCHicks):
Kuhn on the Greeks’ unique creation of scientific culture https://t.co/PR9xYO0rub Sparked by some recent conversation, here again is a striking quotation from Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions:
âEvery civilization of which we have records has possessed a… https://t.co/5pNOougBp5
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 14:41:44 UTC
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RT @SRCHicks: Kuhn on the Greeks’ unique creation of scientific culture Sparked
RT @SRCHicks: Kuhn on the Greeks’ unique creation of scientific culture http://www.stephenhicks.org/2018/07/19/kuhn-on-the-greeks-unique-creation-of-scientific-culture/ Sparked by some recent conversation, here a…
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 14:41:44 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1020317839004258304
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Stephen R. C. Hicks (@SRCHicks): Kuhn on the Greeks’ unique creation of scientif
https://t.co/PR9xYO0rubRetweeted Stephen R. C. Hicks (@SRCHicks):
Kuhn on the Greeks’ unique creation of scientific culture https://t.co/PR9xYO0rub Sparked by some recent conversation, here again is a striking quotation from Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions:
“Every civilization of which we have records has possessed a… https://t.co/5pNOougBp5
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 10:41:00 UTC
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SO what will be the consequence for the japanese? (They know the consequences. S
SO what will be the consequence for the japanese? (They know the consequences. So why are they not acting to alter them?)
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-19 16:02:39 UTC
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We don’t need to increase our rates of reproduction so much as separate. Separat
We don’t need to increase our rates of reproduction so much as separate. Separation will provide the economic and cultural incentive to maintain population.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-19 11:31:16 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1019907518879993857
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Curt Doolittle updated his status. We don’t need to increase our rates of reprod
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
We don’t need to increase our rates of reproduction so much as separate. Separation will provide the economic and cultural incentive to maintain population.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-19 11:31:06 UTC
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Expression of Excellences Occurs
…we don’t know what will emerge in other groups once they reduce the size of their underclasses and express their excellences..