Interesting - but - if you see our species [homo sapiens] as a kind
of 'black slate' so to speak - then, how do you explain the fact that
the infant has to be socialized; i.e., our species is not born with
innate knowledge and requires a long nurturance period. And our type
of socialization requires language. So- how do you get away from the
notion that the requirement for language is innate?
Edwina
On Wed 08/08/18 5:14 AM , Daniel L Everett danleveret...@gmail.com
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Here are two recent works of mind on culture and cognition. I will
be exploring these further in a specifically Peircean context in a
book coming out next year from OUP.
Dan Everett
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On Aug 8, 2018, at 06:12, Stephen Jarosek wrote:
List, here's an interesting article that resonates with ideas that
I've
touched on in this forum (culture, neural plasticity, scaffolding,
bucket-of-bugs... no such thing as instinct, no such thing as a
"blueprint"
that wires the brain). I'm not sure whether the author would take it
as far
as I do, but definitely of direct semiotic/biosemiotic relevance:
https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/08/06/what-if-people-from-different-cultu
[4]
res-and-economic-backgrounds-have-different-brain-wiring/
Barrett's paper also got me thinking about a point that I've been
mulling
over recently... the importance of initial conditions (scaffolding
in the
context of chaos theory)... the idea that experiences can never
occur in
isolation (objectivity), but must build on prior experiences
(subjectivity):
"This leads to another significant implication-that childrearing
and
early childhood experiences are more important than we thought. Not
only do
early experiences shape our personality and values, they also create
the
wiring that will govern our perception of the world far into
adulthood."
Initial conditions are particularly important in the cultural
relativism
debate, for example, where the Left entertains nonsense about more
than two
genders. Initial conditions based on childhood AND the body that you
inhabit
lock you into a fairly narrow trajectory, with the implication that
you
cannot just wake up one morning to decide that you're a special
snowflake in
the wrong body, and that you need to change genders.
sj
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