Monday, July 6, 2015

Human Socially Obligate Boundary Conditions and Related Cultural Universals



"In this animation, the vertical direction indicates time and the horizontal direction indicates distance, the dashed line is the spacetime trajectory ("world line") of the observer. The lower half of the diagram shows the events that are "earlier" than the observer, and the upper half shows events that are "later" than the observer. The small dots are arbitrary events in spacetime."


 Will be included in Air Water Ground at a later date.

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Human Socially Obligate Boundary Conditions and Related Cultural Universals
Jay Moynihan 07/05/2015                                                                             

The Cultural Universals are from:
The Evolution of Childhood  Relationships, Emotion, Mind, Melvin Konner, The Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, (2010)
Human Universals... compiled by Donald E. Brown
..as published in The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker, 2002, New York: Viking Press
Brown, D.E. 1991. Human universals. New York: McGraw-Hill
Note: Socially Obligate Boundary Condition is A set of social parameters or conditions that evolved in a specie, that limits its behavior at a given point in space time. May change in adaptation to changing conditions, including social conditions. Jsm, Air Water Ground .

Pseudospeciation Socially Obligate Boundary Condition (PSOBC)

Extra-genetic transmission of language
Kin Terms (language)
Binary conceptual discrimination (language)
Historic linguistic change
Childhood physical aggression (more so in males)
Recognition of individual faces
Sense of distinctive peoplehood
Relatives distinguished from non-relatives
Conflict at individual & group levels
Ethical dualism; different rules for in-group/out-group
Belief in supernatural entities
Territoriality
Historical & origin narratives
Dispersal of groups
Discrimination (pseudospeciation )
Fear of strangers
Negative identification of us/them
Cultural construction of perception (collective assimilation)
Sense of self as subject/object

Vertical Dominance Hierarchy Socially Obligate Boundary Condition (VSOBC)

Kin Terms (language)
Division of labor by sex and age
Females attracted to powerful males
Male abuse of power
Ascribed & achieved status role beyond age, sex, kinship
Perscription off behaviors
Belief in supernatural entities
Crime
Mimicry
Moral sentiment
Leaders
Defacto oligarchies
Collective decision making
Territoriality
Inheritance rules
Nepotism
Cultural construction of perception (collective assimilation)
Cultural coherence (overarching themes)

Status Socially Obligate Boundary Condition (SSOBC)

Childhood Physical aggression (males more so in males)
Play fighting
Division of labor by sex and age
Females attracted to powerful males
Male attraction to nubile females
Ascribed & achieved status role beyond age, sex, kinship
Cultural coherence (overarching themes)
Cultural construction of perception (collective assimilation)
Symbolism
Defacto oligarchy
Territoriality
Sense of self as subject/object

Economic Socially Obligate Boundary Condition (ESOBC)

Reciprocity, exchanges, cheating
Personal Property
Cultural construction of perception (collective assimilation)
Symbolism
Cultural Schematization
Abstract thought
Trade
Sense of self as subject/object
Systemic, varied tool making
Reciprocal exchange
Turn taking

I am toying with recognizing spirituality as a SOBC.?

IF Spirituality Socially Obligate Boundary Condition (SPSOBC)

Belief in supernatural entities
Symbolic thought
Sense of self as subject/object
Abstract thought
Cultural Schematization
Cultural construction of perception (collective assimilation)
Rituals
Fear of death
Death rituals/mourning
Dream interpretation
Beliefs about death
Narratives
Historical & origin narratives
Moral sentiment
Consciousness altering substances
Belief in life after death
World view
Anthropomorphization
Culture / nature distinction

Note:
Does religion = one of our species’s expressions of {  SPSOBC+ VSOBC + PSOBC + ESOBC } ?


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