Tag: aov
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The Anti-Social Religion
I’m just now finishing Deacon’s The Symbolic Species and have to comment on what he says near the end. First, note that Deacon’s theory of language rests on a set of hypotheses: 1. Humans evolved symbolic language due to some limited set of external, ecological stimuli, such as better group coordination for resources, assisting in…
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Self-Reinforcing Kinship Mesh Networks Enforced by ROBA
Lewis Morgan’s Ancient Society (1877) is one of the more thorough kinship books written during the late 19th century. It’s worth noting his work because he appears to have been at the cutting of a science of kinship that has basically faded from popular memory. Morgan had previously done enormous legwork in his Systems of…
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Research Recap for the Art of Violence in 2023
Below is a summary of my research in 2023 for my ongoing Art of Violence project. Total Pages Read: 21,575 Average pp/week: 413 Average pp/day: 59 # of Books Completed: 59 Avg. length of books completed: 336 pages (Note that many of those books’ pages were read in 2022 and weren’t added to the 2023…
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Mirror Neurons and Human Violence
Part 1 of The Art of Violence series We hear this a lot: we humans are even worse than animals because we murder one another. That’s a half-truth. It’s true that animals don’t murder one another, at least not very often, and humans do. The other half of the truth is that humans have created…