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2018-11-06 15:26:59 UTC  

We’re frogs in boiling water.

2018-11-06 15:27:20 UTC  

@Lars Steffensen - I can when I get off of work around 4pm eastern.

2018-11-06 15:27:35 UTC  

That would be much apprciated!

2018-11-06 15:27:50 UTC  

I tried to google the hell out of what i had from the video above

2018-11-06 15:28:11 UTC  

But its either too old, too esoteric or too incorrect to show up anywhere

2018-11-06 15:29:01 UTC  

Fair enough!

2018-11-06 15:29:32 UTC  

But i bet there must be written material somewhere

2018-11-06 15:29:59 UTC  

Language researchers tend to write...... 😃

2018-11-06 15:32:09 UTC  

It’s interesting how languages reflect the latent capacity / potential of some people. Orally passed / non-written languages are reflective of a primitive culture model. Most abstract and special reasoning comes from complex language, or at least one with many different words.

2018-11-06 15:32:49 UTC  

Yep

2018-11-06 15:32:56 UTC  

There are more descriptive options, reflecting the development of the people attached to it.

2018-11-06 15:33:22 UTC  

Yeah. Key is when you go from sense-driven to planned behavior. Which takes some abstract thinking and rational control.

2018-11-06 15:33:48 UTC  

Spatial reasoning and impulse control, for sure.

2018-11-06 15:34:10 UTC  

That’s why some people will be on an island and build a raft, or sit and eat coconuts until they die.

that must explain why im so gung ho

2018-11-06 15:35:45 UTC  

Yes - exactly. PFC (rational mind) and limbic system (sensual desire) are mutually inhibiting. So you need a bit of training, culture and experience to get planned behavior up and running.

2018-11-06 15:36:25 UTC  

Good genetics probably helps a lot.

2018-11-06 15:36:46 UTC  

Otherwise, look at Africa. The people have no planned behavior, and with no incentive, they remain inept.

2018-11-06 15:37:01 UTC  

They also mostly didnt need it!

2018-11-06 15:37:18 UTC  

I’m not impulsive at all

2018-11-06 15:37:23 UTC  

But I do plan ahead

2018-11-06 15:37:25 UTC  

Which would go a long way to explain why they dont have it.

2018-11-06 15:37:30 UTC  

Without us feeding them, their populations wouldn’t be as high. Natures checks and balances would take care of their numbers.

2018-11-06 15:38:02 UTC  

Well- SA was mostly empty before the Boers went there...

2018-11-06 15:38:35 UTC  

Poopy: You are 22 or something?

2018-11-06 15:39:03 UTC  

The Boers built it up.

2018-11-06 15:39:11 UTC  

Imported rubber from Brazil.

2018-11-06 15:39:19 UTC  

ok

2018-11-06 15:41:37 UTC  

I just finding hard to accept the idea that we somehow should think that there are no differences in mental ability. It makes no sense in any way.

2018-11-06 15:42:40 UTC  

And language devellopment might be a good way to illustrate the basic developmental steps.

2018-11-06 15:43:12 UTC  

The brain’s development is tied to nutrition, which is tied to the environment. A more rigorous environment that requires preparation, like a region with heavy winters, acts as a natural selector for only the best genes to survive winter.

2018-11-06 15:43:52 UTC  

And people who evolve in those conditions have a larger potential for language, do to the need to express complex situations.

2018-11-06 15:43:55 UTC  

Yeah. Specifically genes that can tilt the balance more towards planned behavior....

2018-11-06 15:44:30 UTC  

Language might actually be a necessary integral part of planning.

2018-11-06 15:45:10 UTC  

Or more broadly symbolic representation, that would give you a talent for language.

2018-11-06 15:45:18 UTC  

Definitely. In order to survive some contexts, it’s essential.