{"id":6527,"date":"2023-07-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=6527"},"modified":"2023-05-03T22:55:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T22:55:26","slug":"looking-at-lesley-newson-and-peter-richersons-book-2021-a-story-of-us-part-13-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=6527","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson’s Book (2021) “A Story of Us” (Part 13 of 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

0111 So, what have Newson and Richerson missed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, as far as Razie Mah’s, The Human Niche,<\/em> is concerned, I should turn the question around and ask, “What does their book have to offer?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0112 Here is the fourth depiction of the authors’ approach,<\/em> using the three-level interscope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 34<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0113 The authors’ approach<\/em> may be rendered as a purely relational structure<\/em>.  Key terms in their discussion are on display in every slot in the three-level interscope.  <\/em>Every slot is occupied.  Particular importance is given to category-crossing terms.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

0114 Because completed three-level interscopes<\/em> are inherently satisfying, the authors various arguments deliver a feeling that they all come together<\/em> into a coherent whole<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an implicit abstraction<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book holds together like a well-performed orchestration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0115 Not unsurprisingly, Razie Mah proposes that the three-level interscope<\/em> may serve as a purely relational model<\/em> for langue,<\/em> the mental system of differences that relates to parole<\/em> (expressed as hand-talk, hand-speech talk or speech-alone talk).  One human may engage in word-gestures (hand talk) or vocal utterances (speech talk) as parole<\/em>, but all conversants fill in the blanks of the same relational structure, the three-level interscope<\/em> that is langue<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See Comments on Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky’s Book (2017) Why Only Us?,<\/em> available at smashwords and other e-book venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0116 But, is the above interscope correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No and yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, examine the first column in approach 4<\/em>.  The virtual nested form in the realm of normal context<\/em> does not hold together.  Does the normal context of natural selection3a<\/sub> virtually bring the actuality of sociality3b<\/sub> into relation with the potential of body development3a<\/sub>?   Uh, what am I saying?  Yes, it seems to hold together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is one beauty of filled-in three-level interscopes<\/em>.  Even when the interscope is somewhat questionable, the satisfaction gained from having each element occupied is profound.  This is what humans evolved to do<\/em>.  Newson and Richerson, as professional anthropologists, have (perhaps unintentionally) illustrated one of humanity’s hidden evolved traits<\/em>.  It is hidden, because anthropologists, pretending to be scientists, rather than rational inquirers, seek out and promote only material and instrumental causation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0117 Another hidden gem within their approach<\/em> is pictured in red in the following diagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 35<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0118 The dyad, body [and] mind2b<\/sub>,<\/em> encompasses both social interactions [stimulate] hormonal responses2b<\/sub><\/em> and culture [informs] brains2b<\/sub><\/em>.  The body2b<\/sub> concerns signals.  The mind2b<\/sub> concerns signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 36<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0119 To me, this gem<\/em> touches base with the notion that hominins adapt to a wider and wider variety of social interactions<\/em>in terms of both cathexis<\/em> and cognition<\/em>.  Plus, this gem<\/em> also reminds us that culture consists in information, defined as both signs and sign-processes.  Finally, this gem re-emerges in our current Lebenswelt<\/em> as one of the evocative distinctions realized from many civilized traditions<\/em>.  In the Greek and Roman and then Christian traditions, the normal context of spirit3<\/sub><\/em> brings the actuality of mind [and] body2<\/sub><\/em> into relation with the possibilities inherent in a soul1<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0120 This brings me to the stair and step pattern that transports the reader from the realness of genes2a<\/sub> to the potential of reproductive success1c<\/sub>.  The stairs coincide with the author’s category-crossing imputations in the terms, “phenotype” and “adaptation”.  The steps go either from potential to actuality or from actuality to potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow the green arrows in the following figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 37<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0121 While I may be disappointed that the authors do not identify sign-processing as a key feature of the human niche, I am not disappointed in the authors painting in all the elements of a three-level interscope<\/em> with features of their story about us<\/em>.  If, as noted earlier (point 0115), the three-level interscope gives us insight into the nature of langue<\/em>, then their success in this regard<\/em> presents the reader with a work of art, as well as a work about science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, the authors offer a new look at human evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

0111 So, what have Newson and Richerson missed? 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