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A very interesting point that things look better only when things are going well. When times get challenging i agree with Andrea that hunter gatherer societies would be extremely ruthless. There is a quote "society is always 3 meals away from chaos" by that it means that once famine sets in all bets are off and society quickly becomes extremely chaotic and dangerous. This issue is that for hunter gatherers is that they are extremely exposed to this risk, once bad season could bring the tribe to its knees. Makes you wonder whether this one of the reasons the original farmers started. not because it was easier, it seems early farmers had it alot worse than hunter gatherers on a day to day level. But they didn't experience famine as often. i suspect you would only have to experience one famine where people start dyeing or cannibalism sets in to never want to do that again.
@@lewiswood1693 thats exactly Matranga’s theory! That farming started because it reduced the risk of famines. He also has a cool theory of how ancient climate changes made these risks higher, leading into farming in the areas most affected by the climate change.
Amazing…I have sensed this my entire life. I asked questions of the catholic bishop before confirmation and no answers were sufficient. The combination of science and all the world’s religions are woefully inadequate to this simple idea that I believe is more right.
Yugoslavia was sabotage both economicly and politicaly from outside. There were over two decades of foreign medling before it finally broke. Without those foreign interference, economy would ovecome hurdles.
Important perspective! What do you think of Milanovic’s more general concern that flip side of more democratic decision making (a plus) was a lower level of long-term thinking (a minus)?
@@OnHumansPodcast Again , all that could and would easily overcome IF there was not a hidden agenda from outside forces to break up Yugoslavia. Back to your question. New goverment of Ante Markovic was set a package of reforms that has intention to tackle those problems. Plan was good ,realistic , feasible that would stabilize economic situation in short term , but in mid- long term would provide conditions for healthy future growth. It was intention to go much more to market economy. Huge potentional was in diversified manufacture base with skilled work force. But the war broke up and it all end.
@@danielkurtovic9099 This is very relevant, thank you! But do you think that the general dilemma is there, Yugoslavian details aside? The dilemma being that to fix low investment one would have to move away form worker-ownership? Or vice versa: to empower workers one would have to accept a lower level of investment?
@@OnHumansPodcast @OnHumansPodcast No , I disagree that it possible to be only one way or the other. Empower workers does`t necessary lead to lower level of investment. Crucial is present to workers that investments are essential for their buisiness. That without investment in firm ( R&D, new technologies, new machineries etc) they will eventually be thrown out of buisiness. Workers ain`t stupid people, of course that they will choose to protect their jobs. And this is not some kind of utopia , that has never been try in reality. Again that model was established in Yugoslavia, BUT let`s leave Yugoslavia aside , does anywhere else in world someone try that principle and it worked?? Answer is simple, YES. One of biggest companies in the world embrace yugoslavian workers ownership over factory - HUAWEI , just to name one. Huawei certainly does`t have problem with the level of investment in R&D or anything else. Workers ownership works. Proven in practice. :)
Here's an interesting question.... What constitutes genuinely optimal healthy human behaviour for the individual, the family, the community and the species? Context - why would biology generate any species that presents unhealthy behaviour for that species as that species normative Additional information to inform the discussion would be Allan Schore's work on the Neurobiology of Emotional Development, the work of Judith Herman on Trauma and Recovery, the work of Peter Gray on the evolutionary psychology of how children learn, the work of Sapolsky on Behaviour and Culture in Baboons and in Humans. My take is we are by nature vulnerable because our brains are least mediated by genetics and most mediated by experience - that is the meaning of neuroplasticity.
@@OnHumansPodcast You're welcome, your podcasts are superb, I listen to them while I do my daily long walks. Thank you for all the work you - podcasts take a lot of effort.
Dear Samuel A. Mehr and Manvir Singh: Thanks for your new article inferring song function from form. I grew up in Minneapolis with a strong music study focus. By 16 years old I noticed a logical error in music theory and I developed this into my master's thesis research for a 2000 master's degree at University of Minnesota. To test out my music as nonwestern healing philosophy thesis, I did intensive qigong (Chinese) meditation training with a spiritual yoga healer who works with Mayo Clinic doctors. I had a very profound experience that caused a permanent psychophysiological change - what qigong master Chunyi Lin called my "enlightenment experience." A few years later I was reading a book on the San Bushmen music healing and I encountered a quote that precisely described what I had experienced (or part of it): “You see spirits killing people. You smell burning, rotten flesh. Then you heal, you pull sickness out. You heal, heal, heal. Then you live.” from the book "Healing Makes the Heart Happy" So then I was determined to translate my experience back into science after I had realized an error in my master's thesis. A physics major who published music philosophy books had contacted me, offering to publish my master's thesis, only he confessed he couldn't understand it. So I then studied his "Fractals and Music" book - Charles Madden - and he explained that the 'yin-yang" symbol was not a fractal since it was not symmetric commutative geometry. Soon after this I discovered Fields Medal math professor Alain Connes new book "Triangles of Thought" wherein he describes the precise same music theory secret I had discovered on my own when I was 16 years old - only he called it noncommutativity. I was not sure if Connes was being metaphorical so I kept doing more science research, reading one scholarly book a day, and compiling my initial research into a 2012 book. Then in 2017 I noticed that Connes had a talk uploaded to youtube called "Music of Shapes" and this corroborated precisely that indeed it was the same music theory secret I had discovered on my own at age 16. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z52ZAPrRbqE.html Alain Connes is the only scientist to have figured out this truth of music but I had realized it was also the truth of nonwestern meditation healing! So then I figured since I am just researching on my own someone else must have made this same discovery about noncommutativity being the truth of nonwestern meditation healing. I kept digging and digging online and I finally discovered Eddie Oshins who worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center while he also taught Wing Chun (the lineage of Bruce Lee). Oshins argued that "neidan" or Chinese internal martial arts and also other nonwestern meditation standing healing forms were based on noncommutativity! He called this "quantum psychology" as the secret of "mind-body integration" as the Tao of physics. Eddie Oshins got upset when other colleagues were not able to understand noncommutativity - for example he worked in Karl Pribram's lab to try to explain noncommutativity to Pribram to no avail. So then I discovered that the collaborator of David Bohm, Professor Basil J. Hiley, now also emphasized noncommutativity as the secret truth of the Bohmian nonlocal quantum potential. I have since written articles and a book on this - all my research is free on my academia site. independent.academia.edu/hempeldrew I recommend my "Ancient Advanced Acoustic Alchemy" book for a start and then my "There Is No Spoon" book as a follow-up. thanks, drew hempel, MA
Thank you for covering Ferguson's new book! It's quite the detailed research tome based on 20 years of research. Can you add to the upload description the original time of this interview? I discovered it was 2023, August, from your spotify page. thanks
My pleasure! It was quite a long read but absolutely worth it. Interestingly, I will be talking with Luke Glowacki next week. Curious to hear how he responds to it.
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