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"Wade T.Smith" wrote:
> Chuck made this comment not too long ago --
>
> >So in a sense, a good deal of the behaviors that are in
> >fact learned are preordained by the human brain that will do the identical
> >calculations in identical environments.
>
> But, as one of my teachers used to say, "All things being equal, (which
> they never are....)"
> we are faced with the non-identity of all situations.
Never? Only in that ultimate sense that all events are unique. Some abstraction
is necessary. But we find that hunter/gatherer tribes, for example, are pretty
close to identical in a lot of respects. Forms of marriage, for example, must
be calibrated to the environment.
An example of how invariant the relationship can be is my research on the
establishment of trust in mobile and sedentary societies (these conditions are
directly related to the environment). Its a very solid relationship.
So what constitutes differerences and similarities in the environment is itself
a scientific question. If in fact we can't find identical environments and
population densities, the ideal can still act as a model - making corrections
for the slight differences.
>
>
> And then there's Time....
How much is left!? :)
>
>
> - Wade
>
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