{"id":7227,"date":"2024-01-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=7227"},"modified":"2023-12-30T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T15:27:02","slug":"looking-at-michael-tomasellos-book-1999-the-cultural-origins-of-human-cognition-part-11-of-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=7227","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Michael Tomasello&#8217;s Book (1999) &#8220;The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition&#8221; (Part 11 of 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0067&nbsp;<em>The three-level scholastic interscope for how humans think<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>a purely relational structure<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are Tomasello, Deely and Dennett discussing&nbsp;<em>the same suite of human adaptations,<\/em>&nbsp;as pictured in Razie Mah&#8217;s foundational construction of the Darwinian paradigm in the masterwork,&nbsp;<em>The Human Niche<\/em>&nbsp;(available at smashwords and other e-book venues)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0068 Here is a picture of&nbsp;<em>the Darwinian paradigm for human evolution<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide26-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide26-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide26-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide26-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For Tomasello,&nbsp;<em>another term for the human niche<sub>1b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;is &#8220;sociogenesis<sub>1b<\/sub>&#8220;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Joint attention<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;is the adaptation<sub>2b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Deely, human semiosis<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;is the adaptation and the niche<sub>1b<\/sub>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>the potential of sign-processing<sub>1b<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Dennett, meme-usage<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;is the adaptation and the niche<sub>1b<\/sub>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>the potential of the species impressa<sub>1b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0069 Here is&nbsp;<em>a scholastic picture of the way humans think<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The actualities are foregrounded, the normal contexts and potentials fade to the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide27-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide27-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide27-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide27-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Species impressa<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;covers impressions, sensations, feelings, qualia and decodings.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>An ongoing event<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>the apparent cause of these cognitions<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Indeed, the event and its&nbsp;<em>species impressa<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;cannot be distinguished by a human infant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Species expressa<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;covers perceptions, phantasms, realizations, emotions, and so forth,&nbsp;&nbsp;addressing the question, &#8220;What does the content mean to me?&#8221;<sub>3b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Species intelligibilis<sub>2c<\/sub>,<\/em>&nbsp;in theory, brings&nbsp;<em>an intelligible aspect of the situation-level actuality<\/em>&nbsp;into relation with&nbsp;<em>a universal aspect of the content-level actuality<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Species intelligibilis<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>a triadic relation<\/em>&nbsp;experienced holistically as&nbsp;<em>a relation<\/em>between&nbsp;<em>what is<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>what ought to be<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Latin term for&nbsp;<em>what is<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>species impressa intelligibilis,<\/em>&nbsp;a universal aspect of the species impressa<sub>2a<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Latin term for&nbsp;<em>what ought to be<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>species expressa intelligibilis,<\/em>&nbsp;an intelligible aspect of species expressa<sub>2b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0070 Here is&nbsp;<em>Tomasello&#8217;s description of human cognition<\/em>&nbsp;rendered as&nbsp;<em>a three-level interscope<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Again, the actualities are foregrounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide28-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide28-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide28-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Slide28-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0071 To me, a comparison of the previous two diagrams supports the claim that modern Tomasello and medieval schoolmen try to fashion keys for the same lock.&nbsp;&nbsp;The lock is a purely relational structure.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>What enters into each element<\/em>depends on the inquirer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scholastics are interested in separating mind-dependent and mind-independent beings, among other goals.&nbsp;&nbsp;This seems to be a far cry from Tomasello&#8217;s journey into the natural history of&nbsp;<em>who we are<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet, these two inquiries have this relational structure in 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