Development: This chapter discusses the development of human nature from fetal state on and identifies with the term genetic determinism.
Emergence: This chapter focuses on the notion that our idea of freedom may only be an illusion created by ourselves and that we may not have as much freedom as we think we do.
Aggression: The focus of this chapter refers to the idea that aggressiveness is an innate quality in humans.
Sex: According to this chapter, sex has "no straightforward Darwinian advantage".
Development cannot be entirely explained by solely nature, or only nurture; Inherent biological restrictions outline human development, but culture exerts the pressure that determines the exact path of a certain trait when science allows for more than one outcome.
All human traits emerged in the earliest civilizations and have evolved since then in accordance with cultural and regional distinctions; in other words, human characteristics are hypertrophic extensions of ancient mechanisms for survival.
Humans have an innate tendency to defend their group and territory, which remains from the time of the hunter-gatherer societies, when doing so created a biological advantage by increasing the survival of the victorious tribe.
Sexual reproduction serves to do more than simply produce offspring; it is a bonding mechanism that enforces the family structure that best supports survival.
Development: Human development can be described by hypertrophy, and things like learning potential and tendencies are passed down through a human's genes.
Emergence: An individual's nature can never be predicted, but a generalization about a species or population can be made.
Aggression: Neural chemistry explains how prone a human is to violence and aggression, and aggression is often linked to some of mankind's first reasons for violence, i.e. over population, dominance, etc.
Sex: Sex is a biological fact of life, rather than emotional; as much as our society tries to romanticize sex, many aspects of 'courtship' are derived from our ancestors (women wanting to "marry up", men having the need to "spread his seed", etc)
- Human nature is constrained by heredity, but within each broad spectrum of behavior for particular traits lies an array of choices to be made (often influenced by predisposition or bias): the mind exists as an assessor of the environment and precipitates biological re(actions) accordingly. - Hypertrophy describes the "mountain out of a molehill" effect: the basic social behavior of humans has accelerated throughout history and morphed into different societies with some adaptations metastasizing into extreme developments - there exists cultural and biological evolution, but cultural development is ultimately subject to biology's trajectory. - The aggressive response...and nature of the aggression itself...is the result of societal developments and the dangers, natural or biological, posed to survival. - Human sexuality is a biological development borne of environmental needs - sexuality is a bonding device to ensure survival of the immediate family unit or group.
Development: Inherited human genes determine an individual's likelihood that he or she will develop a certain set of traits.
Emergence: Humans have adapted both culturally and biologically since the hunter-gatherer times, and seemingly trivial traits displayed by hunter-gatherers have evolved to become dominating aspects of the modern world through hypertrophy.
Aggression: Human beings are innately aggressive because we instinctively view others as a threat; however, the degree to which we display these genetically predisposed tendencies toward aggression depends on the culture in which we were raised.
Sex: The primary function of sex is to create genetic variety; humans have evolved to practice sex because it diversifies the human race to widen the possibility of genetic pairings.
Emergence - The human mind cannot be absolutely predicted and societies follow similar patterns in regards to slavery, division of labor, government formation, and other characteristics.
Development - The human mind still retains traces of the hunter gatherer mentality that are instinctual, which invalidates the concept of the "tabula rasa."
Aggression - Human beings are innately aggressive in the competition for limited resources, but peace may be maintained through overlapping cultural and political ties.
Sex - Diversity is a higher priority than procreation, families promote survival, sexuality encourages bonds, and homosexuality has biological origins for a purpose.
Development- Development from the faults and diseases of the human race is only possible once the realization is achieved and the human race starts to think consciously.
Emergence- The idea of hypertrophy is the "key" for the emergence of any civilization looking for advanced stages of life.
Aggression- Humans as a race are aggressive because of the desire of expansion and our competitive and intense nature of evolutionary fitness.
Sex- The purpose of sex and reproduction is not sex for means of procreation, but rather enhancing the diversity and gene pool that exists in the human race.
development- "to what extent does the wiring of neurons... encoded in genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?" The idea of genetic determinism, that development is accredited to both genetics and sociobiology
emergence-"what becomes of free will?" beyond biology, do we have a "soul"? no predictions can be made about human behavior.
Aggression- human beings are innately aggressive, in an effort to achieve "genetic fitness" --> 'winning' natural selection.
Sex- not emotional, necessary. we need sexual reproduction (as opposed to asexual) so that we can be more diverse. diversity --> survival.
Development: Human behavioral development is like a landscape, some traits are set and there is only one "road" to follow, but other traits are like a "fork in the road" with many different options.
Emergence: In order for successful emergence in a civilization, hypertrophy is necessary, it is too challenging to create something good from scratch, you must build upon past successes.
Aggression: All humans are born aggressive, it is a trait that is instinctually necessary when put in a compromising situation.
Sex: Aside from the biological need for reproduction, sex creates a necessary bond between organisms.
Development: Human beings, because of their genetic variety, have the proclivity to grow and obtain various differing characteristics that are determined from birth.
Emergence: Human beings may not have as much free will as they thought they had; however, the brain has the ability in humans to stimulate growth and progress.
Aggression: Humans innately possess aggressive behavior that lead to wars and violence.
Sex: Not only is sex necessary for the diversity of humanity to progress and continue, but it is a way for humans to bond.
Development: Our minds are not blank slates but rather we are all genetically predisposed to certain traits, while others we only inherit only the capacity and bias to learn one way or the other.
Emergence: Civilization "emerges" or evolves due to hypertrophy, whether that be physical or social characteristics.
Aggression: We are predisposed towards aggression but it is affected by outside forces that strengthen or weaken the violence inside of us.
Sex: Natural selection gives us a need to reproduce but we as humans have equated love with sex and therefore the natural selection process has changed over time.
Development: We are born with a certain amount of capacity, or predisposition, to develop individual traits, which then are influenced by society and social interactions. Emergence: The fate and destiny of an individual person cannot be predicted by any human intelligence because of the extreme difference in an individual's brain, however the general "fate" of populations can be predicted. Aggression: Humans display forms of aggression because it derives from ancient times and situations based on survival. Sex: Traits in women and men are genetically different because of the differences of position in previous societies, which have been supported by natural selection.
Development: "No sharp boundary exists between the inherited and the aquired" (nature and nurture.) "The channels of human development.. are cuitous and variable. Rather then specify a single trait human genes prescribe the capacity to develop a certain array of traits." In other words some human learning and development is defined by genetics, as he says " considering these accomplishments together one gains the impression of a social world too complex to be constructed by random learning processes in a lifetime" Emergence: "Schemata within the brain could serve as the basis of will" and though (paraphrasing) basic mechanisms do exist which control most of our automatic behavior it is entirley possible that the will emerged through the evolution of psyiological mechanisms, but clearly "such mechanisms are far more complex than anything else on earth" therefore though we may not have actual "free will" we have enough possible differences to give us more then enough choice to seem like we do and so that human actions cant be concretely anticipated. Ill post the next two later
Development: This chapter discusses the development of human nature from fetal state on and identifies with the term genetic determinism.
ReplyDeleteEmergence: This chapter focuses on the notion that our idea of freedom may only be an illusion created by ourselves and that we may not have as much freedom as we think we do.
Aggression: The focus of this chapter refers to the idea that aggressiveness is an innate quality in humans.
Sex: According to this chapter, sex has "no straightforward Darwinian advantage".
Development cannot be entirely explained by solely nature, or only nurture; Inherent biological restrictions outline human development, but culture exerts the pressure that determines the exact path of a certain trait when science allows for more than one outcome.
ReplyDeleteAll human traits emerged in the earliest civilizations and have evolved since then in accordance with cultural and regional distinctions; in other words, human characteristics are hypertrophic extensions of ancient mechanisms for survival.
Humans have an innate tendency to defend their group and territory, which remains from the time of the hunter-gatherer societies, when doing so created a biological advantage by increasing the survival of the victorious tribe.
Sexual reproduction serves to do more than simply produce offspring; it is a bonding mechanism that enforces the family structure that best supports survival.
Development: Human development can be described by hypertrophy, and things like learning potential and tendencies are passed down through a human's genes.
ReplyDeleteEmergence: An individual's nature can never be predicted, but a generalization about a species or population can be made.
Aggression: Neural chemistry explains how prone a human is to violence and aggression, and aggression is often linked to some of mankind's first reasons for violence, i.e. over population, dominance, etc.
Sex: Sex is a biological fact of life, rather than emotional; as much as our society tries to romanticize sex, many aspects of 'courtship' are derived from our ancestors (women wanting to "marry up", men having the need to "spread his seed", etc)
- Human nature is constrained by heredity, but within each broad spectrum of behavior for particular traits lies an array of choices to be made (often influenced by predisposition or bias): the mind exists as an assessor of the environment and precipitates biological re(actions) accordingly.
ReplyDelete- Hypertrophy describes the "mountain out of a molehill" effect: the basic social behavior of humans has accelerated throughout history and morphed into different societies with some adaptations metastasizing into extreme developments - there exists cultural and biological evolution, but cultural development is ultimately subject to biology's trajectory.
- The aggressive response...and nature of the aggression itself...is the result of societal developments and the dangers, natural or biological, posed to survival.
- Human sexuality is a biological development borne of environmental needs - sexuality is a bonding device to ensure survival of the immediate family unit or group.
Development: Inherited human genes determine an individual's likelihood that he or she will develop a certain set of traits.
ReplyDeleteEmergence: Humans have adapted both culturally and biologically since the hunter-gatherer times, and seemingly trivial traits displayed by hunter-gatherers have evolved to become dominating aspects of the modern world through hypertrophy.
Aggression: Human beings are innately aggressive because we instinctively view others as a threat; however, the degree to which we display these genetically predisposed tendencies toward aggression depends on the culture in which we were raised.
Sex: The primary function of sex is to create genetic variety; humans have evolved to practice sex because it diversifies the human race to widen the possibility of genetic pairings.
Emergence - The human mind cannot be absolutely predicted and societies follow similar patterns in regards to slavery, division of labor, government formation, and other characteristics.
ReplyDeleteDevelopment - The human mind still retains traces of the hunter gatherer mentality that are instinctual, which invalidates the concept of the "tabula rasa."
Aggression - Human beings are innately aggressive in the competition for limited resources, but peace may be maintained through overlapping cultural and political ties.
Sex - Diversity is a higher priority than procreation, families promote survival, sexuality encourages bonds, and homosexuality has biological origins for a purpose.
Development- Development from the faults and diseases of the human race is only possible once the realization is achieved and the human race starts to think consciously.
ReplyDeleteEmergence- The idea of hypertrophy is the "key" for the emergence of any civilization looking for advanced stages of life.
Aggression- Humans as a race are aggressive because of the desire of expansion and our competitive and intense nature of evolutionary fitness.
Sex- The purpose of sex and reproduction is not sex for means of procreation, but rather enhancing the diversity and gene pool that exists in the human race.
development- "to what extent does the wiring of neurons... encoded in genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?" The idea of genetic determinism, that development is accredited to both genetics and sociobiology
ReplyDeleteemergence-"what becomes of free will?" beyond biology, do we have a "soul"? no predictions can be made about human behavior.
Aggression- human beings are innately aggressive, in an effort to achieve "genetic fitness" --> 'winning' natural selection.
Sex- not emotional, necessary. we need sexual reproduction (as opposed to asexual) so that we can be more diverse. diversity --> survival.
Development: Human behavioral development is like a landscape, some traits are set and there is only one "road" to follow, but other traits are like a "fork in the road" with many different options.
ReplyDeleteEmergence: In order for successful emergence in a civilization, hypertrophy is necessary, it is too challenging to create something good from scratch, you must build upon past successes.
Aggression: All humans are born aggressive, it is a trait that is instinctually necessary when put in a compromising situation.
Sex: Aside from the biological need for reproduction, sex creates a necessary bond between organisms.
Development: Human beings, because of their genetic variety, have the proclivity to grow and obtain various differing characteristics that are determined from birth.
ReplyDeleteEmergence: Human beings may not have as much free will as they thought they had; however, the brain has the ability in humans to stimulate growth and progress.
Aggression: Humans innately possess aggressive behavior that lead to wars and violence.
Sex: Not only is sex necessary for the diversity of humanity to progress and continue, but it is a way for humans to bond.
Development: Our minds are not blank slates but rather we are all genetically predisposed to certain traits, while others we only inherit only the capacity and bias to learn one way or the other.
ReplyDeleteEmergence: Civilization "emerges" or evolves due to hypertrophy, whether that be physical or social characteristics.
Aggression: We are predisposed towards aggression but it is affected by outside forces that strengthen or weaken the violence inside of us.
Sex: Natural selection gives us a need to reproduce but we as humans have equated love with sex and therefore the natural selection process has changed over time.
Development: We are born with a certain amount of capacity, or predisposition, to develop individual traits, which then are influenced by society and social interactions.
ReplyDeleteEmergence: The fate and destiny of an individual person cannot be predicted by any human intelligence because of the extreme difference in an individual's brain, however the general "fate" of populations can be predicted.
Aggression: Humans display forms of aggression because it derives from ancient times and situations based on survival.
Sex: Traits in women and men are genetically different because of the differences of position in previous societies, which have been supported by natural selection.
development correction: scratch what i said about genetic determinism, i really meant the converse, i misread.
ReplyDeleteDevelopment: "No sharp boundary exists between the inherited and the aquired" (nature and nurture.) "The channels of human development.. are cuitous and variable. Rather then specify a single trait human genes prescribe the capacity to develop a certain array of traits." In other words some human learning and development is defined by genetics, as he says " considering these accomplishments together one gains the impression of a social world too complex to be constructed by random learning processes in a lifetime"
ReplyDeleteEmergence: "Schemata within the brain could serve as the basis of will" and though (paraphrasing) basic mechanisms do exist which control most of our automatic behavior it is entirley possible that the will emerged through the evolution of psyiological mechanisms, but clearly "such mechanisms are far more complex than anything else on earth" therefore though we may not have actual "free will" we have enough possible differences to give us more then enough choice to seem like we do and so that human actions cant be concretely anticipated.
Ill post the next two later