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Post by brandt on Mar 3, 2012 15:03:55 GMT 10
I have no personal connection to evolutionary psychology. What is it you are studying at W.S. University? What is "W.S. University?"
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Post by brandt on Mar 3, 2012 15:07:07 GMT 10
Gould was an opinion. His opinion does not immediately overthrow everything else or the Earth is still flat.
Can we agree that humans at least used to have instincts but somehow, since whenever, those instincts just disappeared and there are no biological influences on behavior now at all, nothing, none whatsoever. I can then ask for a time-series without having to ask you to prove a negative.
Or we can say that humans never had instincts and we were just made perfect the way we are.
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Post by Smithee on Mar 3, 2012 21:55:22 GMT 10
We have delved since 2010. Result zilch. I have delved in my personal and professional life. What have you contributed? I am aware that you have a life beyond this forum. So do I. Mine happens to relate to this topic. Does your life relate to this topic, I mean does your life your life relate to this topic beyond peanut gallery heckeling? Your choice. Not mine. The delving has been into your extraordinary claims. You have been promising evidence since 2010. Time to put up.
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 3, 2012 22:28:25 GMT 10
What is "W.S. University?" Wayne State University.
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 3, 2012 22:57:11 GMT 10
Gould was an opinion. His opinion does not immediately overthrow everything else or the Earth is still flat. Darwin too was an opinion. Both were pretty good. Can we agree that humans at least used to have instincts but somehow, since whenever, those instincts just disappeared and there are no biological influences on behavior now at all, nothing, none whatsoever. I can then ask for a time-series without having to ask you to prove a negative. Perhaps the loss of instincts and our subsequent reliance of learning is what put the "sapiens" in Homo sapiens. Any prehistoric guesstimate would be purely arbitrary. Indeed, it's possible that "history" was a corollary of language, which had facilitated social learning, giving us an alternative to instincts (enabling us to ask "why" and choosing other behaviours). Some prerequisites were required before flexible and interactive, memetic social learning could replace fixed, genetic instincts. Before we could evolve beyond instincts, we required larger brains to cope with the complexities to be accounted for by social learning; that required larger skulls; and that required a larger birth canal. BTW, the degree of neoteny was apparently less among Neanderthals (mentioned previously) than among modern humans:... Or we can say that humans never had instincts and we were just made perfect the way we are. Who said anything about being perfect?
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Post by brandt on Mar 4, 2012 5:13:07 GMT 10
What is "W.S. University?" Wayne State University. I am not in Michigan.
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Post by brandt on Mar 4, 2012 5:15:33 GMT 10
I have delved in my personal and professional life. What have you contributed? I am aware that you have a life beyond this forum. So do I. Mine happens to relate to this topic. Does your life relate to this topic, I mean does your life your life relate to this topic beyond peanut gallery heckeling? Your choice. Not mine. The delving has been into your extraordinary claims. You have been promising evidence since 2010. Time to put up. The claims are not extraordinary. They are actually quite ordinary. They may seem extraordinary to you since you lack any indepth knowledge of the subject, similar to how I find many of the findings and theories of quantum physics to be extraordinary. Evidence has been offered for consideration and discussion. It was met with derision based upon faulty logic and a lack of knowledge. I will leave y'all to it.
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Post by Solomon on Mar 4, 2012 8:35:36 GMT 10
True. Since you resumed posting here your IP address indicates another state. Your earlier IP address (back in 2010) indicated Michigan and you wrote: There is much Freemasonry still in Michigan Tamrin. Do you need to update your profile on Google Plus? A Brandt with your surname is described as a "Graduate student studying evolutionary psychology at Wayne State University."
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Post by brandt on Mar 4, 2012 9:35:43 GMT 10
Not me Brother. I am living in Texas. Slowly, all too slowly it seems, working on a Ph.D.
Primarily in applied psychology with most of my work in the legal/forensic realm. Some in other areas. I maintain 4 lines of research. I am considering working on another line of research dealing with prison issues.
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 4, 2012 11:58:41 GMT 10
Primarily in applied psychology with most of my work in the legal/forensic realm. Some in other areas. I maintain 4 lines of research. I am considering working on another line of research dealing with prison issues. About a month ago my wife and I hosted a CouchSurfing couple (originally she from New York and he from New Jersey, both now living in Portugal). Coincidentally she too was into Objectivism and he too was into forensic psychology, dealing with prison issues. He and I had some interesting discussions.
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