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BenevolentM -> RE: Hypocrisy or Obsession (3/2/2012 1:02:21 AM)
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What xssve wrote in post 147 http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=4044895 was most interesting.
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ORIGINAL: xssve
In acentric-centripetal species, the Great Apes for example, to which group we belong, the formations are looser, the centripetal defensive formation is not enforced until a threat actually appears, at which point the Alpha males will rush to distract the predator, allowing the females and young to escape.
An Alpha male rushing in to pursue a perceived threat. This is rich.
The acentric-centripetal, centripetal-acentric divide reminds me of Pinhead.
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ORIGINAL: xssve
The looser restrictions on acentric behaviors has benefits to the group in terms of innovation - creativity - which is really defined by doing something that nobody else is doing or has ever done - the very polar opposite of conformity which is simply reproducing behavior by rote, imitation, which, of course, also has it's place, as an innovation that is successful, will then be imitated, contributing to group fitness, while unsuccessful behavirors will tend to be ignored - i.e., it works almost exactly like selection on the genetic level, only in terms of abstract behavior, creativity and imitation on a more abstract, behavioral level.
And, it's why humans evolved from acentric-centripetal hominids, and not centripetal-acentric hominids, acentric-centripetalism is the more adaptive mode, and we are nothing if not highly adaptive.
Centripetal-acentric reminds me of so-called Grey Aliens.
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ORIGINAL: xssve
But, these are the ancestors of our current political divisions, the centripetal right, including the religious right, imitative, and scornful of creativity, but acting in an organized fashion, and the Left, creative and adaptive but all over the map, from feminism to animal rights to gender bending, to alternate mind states via psychoactive chemistry or ritual practice, etc., etc., and so on.
Diversity vs. conformity - the essential difference being that humans preserve adaptations not only through behavioral imitation, but through cultural modes of communication: oral history, literature, art, music, etc. - pure abstractions that may or may not even have behavioral antecedents.
I thread the needle. Did I just accuse the religious right of being a bunch of Grey Aliens?
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ORIGINAL: xssve
It's empirically implausible for example, that Jesus actually awoke from the dead, literally, so if we accept that as fact for the sake of argument, there is no behavioral antecedent for rising from the dead, ...
What is obvious to me is your view of the world is two-dimensional. In other words, I'm accusing you of being a Flatlander. You peer out in the pitch darkness of night, see nothing, and conclude that you are safe, because there is nothing out there. How do you explain this in terms of evolutionary theory? Your power of reason told you this?
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