{"id":7206,"date":"2024-01-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=7206"},"modified":"2023-12-30T15:15:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T15:15:46","slug":"looking-at-michael-tomasellos-book-1999-the-cultural-origins-of-human-cognition-part-7-of-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=7206","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Michael Tomasello&#8217;s Book (1999) &#8220;The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition&#8221; (Part 7 of 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0045 What is the question that I am addressing (see point 0041)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can&nbsp;<em>Tomasello&#8217;s research program<\/em>&nbsp;be diagrammed as&nbsp;<em>a social construction?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A social construction<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>a type of three-level interscope,<\/em>&nbsp;where the perspective and content levels stand out and the situation level is muddled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0046 I suppose that I have identified two Darwinian paradigms that I can cut and paste into a three level interscope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first paradigm treats phenotypes<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;as adaptations<sub>2b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide14-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide14-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide14-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide14-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second is the Tomasello-Mah synthesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide15-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide15-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide15-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide15-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0047 I ask the question, &#8220;Does culture (on the content level of the psychological paradigm) situate the cognitive ability to identify with conspecifics (that is, joint attention, on the situation level of the Tomasello-Mah synthesis)?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the following figure, I hybridize the above paradigms.&nbsp;&nbsp;I move the situation-level of the Tomasello-Mah synthesis into&nbsp;<em>the content-level of a vision in cognitive psychology<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Situation-level natural selection<sub>3b<\/sub>&nbsp;becomes content-level natural selection<sub>3a<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;I also replace &#8220;cognitive ability to identify with conspecifics<sub>2a<\/sub>&#8221; with the term, &#8220;joint attention<sub>2a<\/sub>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide16-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide16-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide16-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide16-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0048 Notably,&nbsp;<em>the actuality<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;underlying the adaptation of joint attention<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;<em>in the Tomasello-Mah synthesi<\/em>s disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If&nbsp;<em>Tomasello&#8217;s research program<\/em>&nbsp;is a house, built with the tools of cognitive psychology, then&nbsp;<em>the actuality of triadic relations<\/em>&nbsp;dwells in the basement, out of sight and out of mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0045 What is the question that I am addressing (see point 0041)? 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A social construction&nbsp;is&nbsp;a type of three-level interscope,&nbsp;where the perspective and content levels stand out and the situation level is muddled. 0046 I suppose that I have identified two Darwinian paradigms that I can cut and paste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[416],"class_list":["post-7206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-book-review"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Looking at Michael Tomasello&#039;s Book (1999) &quot;The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition&quot; (Part 7 of 12) - An Archaeology of the Fall<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Razie Mah reviews book from semiotic point of view.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=7206\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Looking at Michael Tomasello&#039;s Book (1999) &quot;The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition&quot; 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