Comments for jonniehughes.com http://www.jonniehughes.com ideas. evolution. us Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:50:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Comment on What’s the idea? by Jonnie http://www.jonniehughes.com/?p=57#comment-489 Jonnie Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:50:45 +0000 http://www.jonniehughes.com/?p=57#comment-489 Thanks for your comments. I'd suggest that the speed of cultural descent is, if anything, slowish. With tepees, the radiation only amounted to a few dozen "species" within a few centuries. Considering that the "generation time" of an idea could amount to the time it takes you to tell it to me, and then me to tell someone else, speciation in culture could easily parallel junkie protozoa. Thanks for your comments. I’d suggest that the speed of cultural descent is, if anything, slowish. With tepees, the radiation only amounted to a few dozen “species” within a few centuries. Considering that the “generation time” of an idea could amount to the time it takes you to tell it to me, and then me to tell someone else, speciation in culture could easily parallel junkie protozoa.

]]> Comment on What’s the idea? by Doug Johnson http://www.jonniehughes.com/?p=57#comment-476 Doug Johnson Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:23:07 +0000 http://www.jonniehughes.com/?p=57#comment-476 Just finished 'Origin of the Tepees'. I grew up in Denver. My Dad worked with the Southern Ute. Stephen Jay Gould is my hero and I'm feeling a disconnect between cultural evolution. Too simple a metaphor. The Teepee is one iteration. To speciate artifacts in this way is to iterate a protozoa on crack. Too many. Too quick. The metaphor falls in that the constancy of the human organism toward a progress fallacy. Gould (1996) argued the Linnean taxonomy artificially put humans at the top. Special evolution for human culture builds at the top. The goggles are foggy. I needed more depth of argument on Darwin's/Bell's ideation. Otherwise we're just Calvinistic machines ex Dues. Calvin or Darwin it reduces to the same. The "cutbow" fish in Yellowstone are the interesting part of the model. Native Americans are relegated to reservations with too much alcohol. In the end, what is left out of the books argument is that human cultural iterations that don't make it, don't simply cease to exist like a jelly fish that got run over. Human cultural iterations are left as parasitic bad examples for Europeans to point at and say, "See? Sir Francis Galton was correct (1892) The English are superior." Need to explore more ideas. godless and pointless works. Read Sherman Alexie. Just finished ‘Origin of the Tepees’. I grew up in Denver. My Dad worked with the Southern Ute.

Stephen Jay Gould is my hero and I’m feeling a disconnect between cultural evolution. Too simple a metaphor. The Teepee is one iteration. To speciate artifacts in this way is to iterate a protozoa on crack. Too many. Too quick.

The metaphor falls in that the constancy of the human organism toward a progress fallacy. Gould (1996) argued the Linnean taxonomy artificially put humans at the top. Special evolution for human culture builds at the top.

The goggles are foggy. I needed more depth of argument on Darwin’s/Bell’s ideation.

Otherwise we’re just Calvinistic machines ex Dues. Calvin or Darwin it reduces to the same.

The “cutbow” fish in Yellowstone are the interesting part of the model.

Native Americans are relegated to reservations with too much alcohol. In the end, what is left out of the books argument is that human cultural iterations that don’t make it, don’t simply cease to exist like a jelly fish that got run over.

Human cultural iterations are left as parasitic bad examples for Europeans to point at and say, “See? Sir Francis Galton was correct (1892) The English are superior.”

Need to explore more ideas. godless and pointless works. Read Sherman Alexie.

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