Re: [Fis] social flow

2013-11-21 Thread Roly Belfer
Thanks Joseph. I agree completely. That is precisely why I wanted something more, and have yet to find it. On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Joseph Brenner joe.bren...@bluewin.chwrote: Dear Roly, Dear Pedro, Thank you for taking this thread in a for me very interesting direction. As you

Re: [Fis] social flow

2013-11-21 Thread Joseph Brenner
Dear Roly, Dear Pedro, Thank you for taking this thread in a for me very interesting direction. As you know, interesting means what I find my logical system can confirm, improve, validate, etc. The two notes share one feature that one might criticize, namely, that they deal essentially with

Re: [Fis] social flow

2013-11-21 Thread John Collier
Interesting point, Pedro. Robin Dunbar's work is closer to a pure social bonding role. He argues, and has some evidence for, oral communication playing a similar role in our cultures as grooming does in chimpanzees and other species. He uses this to explain how we can have larger group

Re: [Fis] social flow

2013-11-21 Thread Roly Belfer
Dear Pedro Thank you! there is some sort of synchronicity here: I was just recently thinking about Roman Jakobson and his 6 levels of semiotic analysis. Especially the *phatic expression*, as some kind of white noise that is necessary for the interpersonal informational handshake. That is, an