Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

WS: I don’t see evidence they NEED different things. I see evidence they require mindfulness to different degrees. And that man has discovered a great variety of means of producing mindfulness. Of those means, mythological appears to be the worst other than drugs and alcohol. The challenge I see at present, is our failure to produce and invest in (the high cost of training into) a non-false consistency across ‘religion(feels), philosophy(reason), science(evidence)’ that produces that mindfulness. If that means ‘we need different things’ in the form of narrative, reason, and evidencde(calculation) then that’s true. If it means we need non-correspondence in any one of them that doesn’t appear to be so. In fact, it’s the source of all horrors of man that I know of.

WS: I don’t see evidence they NEED different things. I see evidence they require mindfulness to different degrees. And that man has discovered a great variety of means of producing mindfulness. Of those means, mythological appears to be the worst other than drugs and alcohol. The challenge I see at present, is our failure to produce and invest in (the high cost of training into) a non-false consistency across ‘religion(feels), philosophy(reason), science(evidence)’ that produces that mindfulness. If that means ‘we need different things’ in the form of narrative, reason, and evidencde(calculation) then that’s true. If it means we need non-correspondence in any one of them that doesn’t appear to be so. In fact, it’s the source of all horrors of man that I know of.

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Agreed on TE.
You’re rather obviously correct on variation.
Neoteny is ignored and meaningful and still relative.
Econ of behavior does suggest some TRENDS.
Some points in history of 70k to 20k BP might have been rather pleasant given the novelty of man against the ignorance of…