Justin Barrett - Cognition and Culture
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- How does human thinking and feeling affect human culture? How does collective society emerge from individual mentalities?
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Justin L. Barrett is President of nonprofit Blueprint 1543, developing initiatives and scholarship at the intersection of religion and the sciences. He previously held positions at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology as Professor of Psychology and leading the Office for Science, Theology, and Religion, as well as the Thrive Center for Human Development prior to that. Prior to Fuller, he held a post as a senior researcher of the Centre for Anthropology and Mind and The Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University.
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When our children were little I sometimes told them I wanted to see what they had eaten, and would gently touch their tummies with my fingertips and pretend to feel what was in their stomach. "Oh, that feels like a bit of carrot.... and that's squishy like rice... and , oh, is that a piece of chocolate?". Of course I'd noticed what they were eating earlier, but children don't have the level of attention and memory as adults. They don't know whether I was present at the time, and I might have been behind them anyway. They thought this was amazing, like a magical power. My youngest is 18 now and she said that, although we always treated it as harmless fun, the way I knew such things was a bit scary to her at the time. So the fact is they lack the ability to reason about how mummy or daddy are aware of things and find things out. As adults we can spot clues and deduce things they have no awareness of, and cannot reasonably take into account in their estimation of our abilities.
4:49 I loved this!!!
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At 2:13 Barrett asks "What are the natural propensities we have in thinking, in entertaining ideas, in generating new ideas that makes some candidates for culture more attractive than others?"
Firstly, fundamental to the mind-body problem is that bodies wire brains - or to be more precise, *experiences* intercepted by bodies wire neuroplastic brains.
Barrett's "natural propensities?" - For the first layer of "natural propensities", think of the body as providing the predispositions to what somebody notices. If you have hands and see in color and hear in certain wavelengths and speak in language, then you will notice things that, say, raccoons with fur, claws, acute hearing and seeing in b/w do not notice.
So the body is the first "natural propensity". But culture, as the basis for experience, also accounts for propensities (predispositions). Cultural logic accounts for the culture-colored glasses through which people around the world intercept reality. History, education, traditions, language, etc, are all parameters that constitute our culture-colored glasses. Culture is the top-down causation that gives directions to the bottom-up meanderings that probe for possibilities.
Why doesn't culture wire dogs' brains? Cats' brains? Easy-peazy. That's because dogs' and cats' are not equipped with the sorts of mind-bodies that are predisposed to engaging with culture. Human mind-bodies, however, with hands and vocal apparatus, as the tools of spoken and written language and the transmission of concepts, technology and ideas, are superbly equipped to engage with human culture. And so human culture wires neuroplastic, human brains.
So what happens to human neuroplastic brains in the absence of culture? The answer to this question can be found in the fascinating topic of *feral children* . See for example, the work of Jean Itard on Victor, "The wild boy of Aveyron". Children raised in isolation, or raised by wild animals such as wolves, will acquire the predispositions of the contexts in which they are raised. Children raised from infancy by wolves, for example, will "imitate" wolf behavior, insofar as their bodily predispositions allow them to.
Dogs' and cats' neuroplastic brains are also wired in accordance with top-down experiences, and so they too are affected by those culture-dwellers who love them, but they are not equipped to engage with human cultures to the extent of being motivated to use a fork and knife, to learn proper table manners, to sing a song, to learn to read and write, or to learn to play a violin.
The broadest implications of Barrett's question at 2:13 can be summed up in terms of *horizon of options* . Humans have a vastly extended horizon of options compared to a frog in a pond or a cat/dog in a house, or a cow on a farm. Horizon of options relates to how we *know how to be* (Heidegger's Dasein, Being in the World) and *knowing how to be* is the top-down causation that explains the relationship between individual personality and culture.
Good question from Mr Robert guys answeres though baseless and lack standard model proceedings. IoL
1:40 ... how do we teach how do we learn from each other those are cognitive processes.
The ones who treat childhood sexual trauma but stand by during sexual training for children under 4 is being globalized? There are two refutals in there.
You can only get a broad sweep.
The narrow is done in an individual basis till the gods choose to add extra special abilities. No science and tech can test and get it right at any moment of any time.
The great acaryas and preceptors state and implore that overcoming thy mind is very difficult and must be. I spent 12 years of arduous seeking, researching, etc. Let's give it up to the Ancient Greeks, Indians, Egyptians may we - nobody today is anywheres near an illustrious god like they . It bothers me, this very moment, that it took so long for me to find the quality content of Intellect and Soul, incredible inquiries, dialectics, realization; the most illustrious men of all time(from my little awareness). And I ask myself oft, WHY...Why...do these modern academicians, mental health "doctors" and governmental "leaders not study 'THE GOOD STUFF'. In our very core, thy center, we all know why.
4:40 good Robert sir, thank you for sharing this. The great Jordan Maxwell always mentioned that if you ask a child where GOD is, they oft point to the sky. And too, babies are able to identify the Divine in people; the beautiful.
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A cat's mind is a child's mind, even if the cat is 15 years old. 🐈
A chimp's mind is an old age mind, even if it's a baby chimpanzee.🦧
Recognition of god or fallacious indoctrination?
This video is a pretending quality. You do not just "copy" people for understanding. Educational schools teach students to "tell us in your own words". A school does not teach students to "copy". A school teaches Critical Thinking Skills.