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huh.
ok so sapiens (and indirectly this addresses powerclown's no. 128 as well)
i have been doing a bunch of work with complex dynamic systems theory as a way to model being human--particularly with reference to cognition. i am still learning this material (there's a ton of it)---but i find it fascinating and conceptually useful---this interest explains alot about why it is that i find nothing terribly compelling about claims concerning "human nature" from a bio-system viewpoint. the idea of "human nature" seems to me entirely ideological in the old marxist sense of the term. what i have been running out is a critique of the idea of human nature predicated on this claim. it seems to work pretty well, as no-one really has a response to it on its own terms.
i guess i could try to explain some of the complex dynamical systems material, but i am not sure how relevant it would be...
powerclown: while i like the indy 500 analogy, it dont think it accurate to describe why or how the arguments cross or dont cross. but it's interesting nonetheless.
baraka, sir: does your post mean that i am somehow a "postmodernist"?
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