Wilson starts this chapter by going back to his main purpose of this book the unity of knowledge. He suggest we should view the boundary between the scientific and literary cultures not as a territorial line but as a broad and mostly unexplored terrain awaiting cooperative entry from both sides.
It was funny to be reading this chapter at this time were we're being so stressed out about our culture at the MPC, and questioning if we are in the right track.
"Culture is a product, is historical; includes ideas, patterns, and values; is selective; is learned; is based upon symbols; and is an abstraction from behavior and the products of behavior".
All culture comes from culture.
The language instinct consists of precise mimicry, compulsive loquacity, near-automatic mastery of syntax, and the swift acquisition of a large vocabulary. I could relate this quote with words and rules.
He makes a comparison between Episodic memory: which recalls the direct perception of people and other concrete entities through time, like images seen in a motion picture. Semantic memory: recalls meaning by the connection of objects and ideas to other objects and ideas, either directly by their images held in episodic memory or by the symbols denoting the images.
Wilson's purpose is to establish the plausibility of the central program of consilience, in this instance the causal connections between semiotics and biology. If they can be connected, the future discoveries that has to do with the nodes of semantic memory will correspondingly sharpen the definition of memes.
A psychologist demonstrated that people respond powerfully during personality development to the order in which they were born and thus the roles they assume in family dynamics.
Environment is the myriad influences that shape body and mind step by step throughout every stage of life.
Heritability is a sound measure of the influence of genes on variation in existing environments. These are the best at predicting personal capacity in existing and future environments. Cultivate individuals, not groups.
Almost all the differences between cultures are likely to be the product of history and environment.
What we inherit are neurobiological traits that cause us to see the world in a particular way and learn certain behavior in preference to other behaviors.
Humans are innately prepared to learn certain behaviors, while being counter prepared against that is predisposed to avoid others.
Societies everywhere break people into different groups depending in their economic income, way of thinking or religion, they fortify the boundaries of each division with taboo and ritual.
Culture can indeed run wild for a while, and even destroy the individuals that foster it.
How the brain responds depends on the input of other kinds of information and the memories they summon.
The brain constantly searches for meaning, for connections between object and qualities that cross-cut the senses and provide information about external existence.
It was funny to be reading this chapter at this time were we're being so stressed out about our culture at the MPC, and questioning if we are in the right track.
"Culture is a product, is historical; includes ideas, patterns, and values; is selective; is learned; is based upon symbols; and is an abstraction from behavior and the products of behavior".
All culture comes from culture.
The language instinct consists of precise mimicry, compulsive loquacity, near-automatic mastery of syntax, and the swift acquisition of a large vocabulary. I could relate this quote with words and rules.
He makes a comparison between Episodic memory: which recalls the direct perception of people and other concrete entities through time, like images seen in a motion picture. Semantic memory: recalls meaning by the connection of objects and ideas to other objects and ideas, either directly by their images held in episodic memory or by the symbols denoting the images.
Wilson's purpose is to establish the plausibility of the central program of consilience, in this instance the causal connections between semiotics and biology. If they can be connected, the future discoveries that has to do with the nodes of semantic memory will correspondingly sharpen the definition of memes.
A psychologist demonstrated that people respond powerfully during personality development to the order in which they were born and thus the roles they assume in family dynamics.
Environment is the myriad influences that shape body and mind step by step throughout every stage of life.
Heritability is a sound measure of the influence of genes on variation in existing environments. These are the best at predicting personal capacity in existing and future environments. Cultivate individuals, not groups.
Almost all the differences between cultures are likely to be the product of history and environment.
What we inherit are neurobiological traits that cause us to see the world in a particular way and learn certain behavior in preference to other behaviors.
Humans are innately prepared to learn certain behaviors, while being counter prepared against that is predisposed to avoid others.
Societies everywhere break people into different groups depending in their economic income, way of thinking or religion, they fortify the boundaries of each division with taboo and ritual.
Culture can indeed run wild for a while, and even destroy the individuals that foster it.
How the brain responds depends on the input of other kinds of information and the memories they summon.
The brain constantly searches for meaning, for connections between object and qualities that cross-cut the senses and provide information about external existence.