The critical point I was trying to articulate, much better said. We can't deny our biology, nor the the reality of "wetware" - the messy, amazing, electro-chemical system that keeps us alive and enables our perception and behavior. At the same time, that system has evolved, in us as a biological species, to give us the ability to build, …
The critical point I was trying to articulate, much better said. We can't deny our biology, nor the the reality of "wetware" - the messy, amazing, electro-chemical system that keeps us alive and enables our perception and behavior. At the same time, that system has evolved, in us as a biological species, to give us the ability to build, not just physical nests, but "narrative nests" - massively elaborate cultural systems.
The critical point I was trying to articulate, much better said. We can't deny our biology, nor the the reality of "wetware" - the messy, amazing, electro-chemical system that keeps us alive and enables our perception and behavior. At the same time, that system has evolved, in us as a biological species, to give us the ability to build, not just physical nests, but "narrative nests" - massively elaborate cultural systems.
Parsing what shapes behavior - how the complicated and complex bio-eco-socio system shapes us - is a problem akin to, but vastly more challenging than, looking at the impact of steroids on a given home run in baseball https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2018/9/28/17913536/mark-mcgwire-sammy-sosa-steroid-era-home-run-chase or attributing specific storms to climate change https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/29/climate/climate-change-hurricanes.html