“what compels us to act differently is mostly the different scenarios we find ourselves in.”
Humans are social beings. We use status in the form of prestige (conspicuous competence) and propriety (norm adherence) as currencies of social cooperation. Different cultures frame similar situations differently. Human happiness rests to an almost startling degree on connections.
Your analytical framework seems to turn situation into *individual* situation too quickly.
I am quite enjoying the proportions on offer though. Maybe we should call it symbolic analogies rather than mathematics though. That might help. Now to read part 2.
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I've written on WEIRD a bit. I think in terms of your 'situation' it is important to note that WEIRD societies have created a 'situation' of the individual as a social institution.
Thus we get WEIRD extremes of individualicality, where this social institution is re-situated within choices that flounder among everything on offer as upgrade, such that we get libertarian techno-boyars who want to be a small 'o' Orthodox (agentless compliance by members to an 'organic' imperial system, i.e no liberty required) or sovereign citizens who self among others with/within a clueless ideologically-based pseudo-legal narcissism with solipsistic overdrives.
Of course I am both suffering from, and indicating that these two examples, are suffering from an over-determined (dogmatic) attribution theory (which turns into attribution conspiracy theorising when the situation they prefer (Imperial Cult Christianity as state control or solipsistic kingliness) is not the situation they actually live in). And then active conspiracy in order to overcome their perceived enemies (who may not exist).
Preference and perception are the same thing, one as hope and the other as anxiety, the basic worlding emotions.
saving for later. im excited
“what compels us to act differently is mostly the different scenarios we find ourselves in.”
Humans are social beings. We use status in the form of prestige (conspicuous competence) and propriety (norm adherence) as currencies of social cooperation. Different cultures frame similar situations differently. Human happiness rests to an almost startling degree on connections.
Your analytical framework seems to turn situation into *individual* situation too quickly.
"Different cultures frame similar situations differently." - Definitely...this is the part I'm chewing on for Part III.
"Your analytical framework seems to turn situation into *individual* situation too quickly." - I'll give this some thought. Appreciate the feedback.
This post grapples with some of those issues, if a little indirectly.
https://www.lorenzofromoz.net/p/dont-believe-crank-the-handle-or
I am quite enjoying the proportions on offer though. Maybe we should call it symbolic analogies rather than mathematics though. That might help. Now to read part 2.
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I've written on WEIRD a bit. I think in terms of your 'situation' it is important to note that WEIRD societies have created a 'situation' of the individual as a social institution.
https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/reading-joseph-henrich-two-social
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Thus we get WEIRD extremes of individualicality, where this social institution is re-situated within choices that flounder among everything on offer as upgrade, such that we get libertarian techno-boyars who want to be a small 'o' Orthodox (agentless compliance by members to an 'organic' imperial system, i.e no liberty required) or sovereign citizens who self among others with/within a clueless ideologically-based pseudo-legal narcissism with solipsistic overdrives.
Of course I am both suffering from, and indicating that these two examples, are suffering from an over-determined (dogmatic) attribution theory (which turns into attribution conspiracy theorising when the situation they prefer (Imperial Cult Christianity as state control or solipsistic kingliness) is not the situation they actually live in). And then active conspiracy in order to overcome their perceived enemies (who may not exist).
Preference and perception are the same thing, one as hope and the other as anxiety, the basic worlding emotions.
Worlding the self : among others : doing the same :: the world.
No function required except in extremis.