A conversation between economist Tyler Cowen and anthropologist Joseph Henrich about social learning, intelligence, religion, and cognition. buff.ly/2B0ZNbH
2018-08-19 10:15:02A few excerpts that stuck with me: 1/ Positive-sum thinking isn't the human default & is rare + fragile. If you can get it to work, then it tends to result in higher growth pic.twitter.com/uZE5gXkvNz
2018-08-25 04:36:252/ Monotheism ended up dominating because it gave monotheistic cultures ideological justification to spread and ultimately dominate/stamp out polytheistic cultures pic.twitter.com/mq9R8NzxHm
2018-08-25 04:38:103/ Monotheism also expands your 'circle of trust' beyond just your local in-group (who all believe in your local god). Now you can trust anybody who believes in the One God --> increased cooperation and trust --> more dominance. pic.twitter.com/Uqqg49W6e0
2018-08-25 04:39:094/ Monotheism thus becomes a scaling strategy for societies. At some point, the bottleneck becomes coordination/shared trust beyond a certain number of people - monotheism allows societies to overcome this constraint. pic.twitter.com/ZcbHtjEidK
2018-08-25 04:40:415/ Monogamy (and ending cousin marriage) also ended up dominating for the same reason: enough people are forced to marry beyond their tribes that networks enlarge & societies become larger and more interconnected. pic.twitter.com/XzQrnJEFU1
2018-08-25 04:42:046/ This exact thing - ending polygyny for higher-status males, ending cousin-marriage - happened relatively recently in China (1950s) & Japan (1880s) & Nepal (early 1960s) and has led to similar effects. pic.twitter.com/j8XQA56YUU
2018-08-25 04:43:087/ There's evidence that Neanderthals were actually more individually intelligent & had bigger brains than us. But we stamped out Neanderthals because we were more collectively intelligent - better at cultural learning / spreading ideas / accumulating collective knowledge. pic.twitter.com/Cg3Yw5Sl08
2018-08-25 04:45:088/ Economists are aggressively competitive with each other; psychologists much more polite. Differing social norms within academic tribes. pic.twitter.com/E12lRHKyMN
2018-08-25 04:46:029/ "Psychologists, they'll sit quietly." pic.twitter.com/o2IF4h8U3K
2018-08-25 04:46:4010/ De-emphasizing the family / breaking down family bonds is actually a source of "Western" competitive advantage & urbanization helps with this. Excessive focus on kinship/family loyalty actually holds societies back. pic.twitter.com/WFhMNSsOxC
2018-08-25 04:49:35h/t @sknthla for the link & @tylercowen for the excellent interview!
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2019-09-12 21:46:01"overarching theoretical frameworks pave the way toward a more general theory of human behaviour" argue @mmuthukrishna and Joseph Henrich in their Perspective: buff.ly/2tl9ydX
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2019-06-27 12:53:34Voice 2020年2月号に、『文化がヒトを進化させた』の著者ジョセフ・ヘンリック氏のインタビュー記事が掲載されています。テクノロジーなど現代の文化について語っています。 本書の試し読み↓ note.com/hakuyo_sha/n/n… pic.twitter.com/nnQfSrBGyo
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