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pigsflyinny (September 6, 2008 at 7:30 am)
great vlog.
battim (June 19, 2008 at 7:19 am)
i agree. in fact, i'd say most are legitimate, even if self interested. i'd love to imagine that..but its hard sometimes.
woozlbug (June 19, 2008 at 4:43 am)
Some 'agendas' are legitimate. Have you ever fought City Hall over something that mattered to you? Try to get a large group of people on the same page, about anything, and you'll realize the limitations of our powers of reason as an evolutionary strategy. "Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, peoples, parties, ages it is the rule."-Nietzsche Imagine if the entire human race could scientifically mine each other's perspective in the form of disciplined rational dialog? Oh Youtube!
woozlbug (June 19, 2008 at 4:19 am)
Excellent video! I have been fascinated by this topic. The grouping instinct manifested in mechanisms like religion and nationalism often overide the individual's power of reason and this makes perfect evolutionary sense. Will the human race ever 'have the intellect to know better'? Can our powers of reason ever match the scale of accomplishment of grouping mechanisms? Constantine used his powers of reason to select Christianity over Greek Philosophy as a tool to unite the Empire.*sigh* FoxNews
battim (May 24, 2008 at 7:11 am)
never done coke.
jimztar (May 22, 2008 at 12:21 pm)
He thinks you're on drugs.
battim (May 13, 2008 at 12:34 am)
but not cognitively. which i stated clearly. you apparently pick and chose phrases rather than reading entire ideas.
DeimosSaturn (May 12, 2008 at 11:49 pm)
"language alone is more complex than any interaction insects have."That's completely false. The interactions among ants are far more complex than any human language. I suggest you google ant communication."systemically more complex"You were talking about individual units, not the entire collective. If we go by your logic, humans are "systemically more complex" than ants, which is ultimately saying nothing.Also, "more social" means "more complex social interactivity".
omfgyo12 (May 10, 2008 at 7:16 am)
despite the "um's" 4*
battim (May 10, 2008 at 7:03 am)
incects are systemically more complex than most life forms. any animal is of the highest complex forms. that being said, there is nothing concrete to your argument. instinctual patterns or behavior are much less complex than learned cgonitive social patterns. i never claimed anything was more or less social, only that the more complex the nervous system is the more complex the social interactivity is. language alone is more complex than any interaction insects have. |
