hkhenson wrote:
...
> I have gone a little further than Dr. Gat and propose that the
> psychological mechanism leading to wars starts with a population
> average "bleak outlook."
...
> memes. The memes synch the tribe's warriors to make "do or die"
> attacks on neighbors, which (in the EEA) almost always solved the
> problem of a bad ratio of mouths to food.
Keith--
Hey, good to hear from you! I just got done googling
to figure out that EEA was "environment of evolutionary
adaptation". That's definitely a concept that deserves
a word , but an acronym out of the blue?
...
> wouldn't help if there were no religious memes circulating beforehand
> because some warrior synchronizing meme would be amplified out of the noise.
I like that, "warrior synchronizing meme". I'll file that
away next to "subtractive volume renderer" and other nice
phrases...
...
> Is this model logical enough for you?
>
> Keith Henson
You know, some of this could be tested. Has anyone done
so?
I do like the idea, and liked it last time you posted it.
---David
Illegitimi non carborundum, Maru
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