I think viruses are involved in a conspiracy to eliminate us. And they're using the scientific method.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 12:19 PM Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > At the moment I am reading the book "The righteous mind" from Jonathan > Haidt. In chapter 9 "why are we so groupish" Jonathan discusses how "shared > intentionality" and a shared mental representation helped our ancestors to > form larger social groups and to move beyond the capabilities of our > primate-like cousins. Words would not only be a link between a sound and an > object but first of all an agreeenment among a group of people which sounds > are linked to which objects. > > This chapter reminded me of Nick's article 20 years ago that > "Intentionality is the Mark of the Vital". Would it make sense to say that > shared intentionality is the hallmark of (multicellular) life and > collective intelligence? This would fit to the thesis that the temples of > the ancient Greek and the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are fossil remains > of the phenotypes from ancient lifeforms. In my opinion the mental differs > from the material because we perceive the "mental" usually on the level of > the genotype but the "material" on the biological level of the phenotype. > > -J. > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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