On 1/6/2013 12:42 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
I read some workd of Gintis,. but the experimental game theorists give up when things
get complicated. The dynamic of groups stability and cooperation and their mechanisms is
an field which has not even started. They do not study the vital role of public cult and
rites, for example that are critical for an efficient group.
And when started, the philosophical consequences have not been explored. Because this
has profound implicatiopns for what people believe that is true or not.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'philosophical' consequence (isn't this what
deconstructionists study - the social construction of 'truth'); but the more practical
consequences are *very* extensively studied and the results are applied - in advertising
and in political campaigns.
Brent
The first of then is that whatever people say have two meanings: one the pure truth
content, the other the implication of this truth for the prominence and cohesion of his
group, and both appreciations are mixed, bot at the time to communicate it and at the
time of evaluating them.
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