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On 19-Jan-09 at 1:43 am, hkhenson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> At 06:35 PM 1/17/2009, Luis wrote:
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> snip
>
>>Is there any statistical data (or simulations) on the effectiveness of
>>various social diffusion methods (especially via internet)
>
> The study area you want is memetics, which is about the spread of
> elements of culture in a population.
>
> Unfortunately people spent years arguing over definitions rather than
> empirical work.
>
>>to promote
>>the mindset transition from "homo economicus" to "homo solidarius,"
>>individually and collectively? Note that the "limits to growth"
>>simulations would not apply to answering this question.
>>
>>Any help is deeply appreciated.
>
> The area here is evolutionary psychology. People evolved
> psychological mechanisms to maximize the survival of their genes. Of
> course we don't now live in the environment of evolutionary
> adaptiveness where those genes were selected. Thus our current
> behavior is less than optimal from our gene's viewpoint.
This is mostly unproven, and indeed unprovable. for a start, when and where was this so-called "environment of evolutionary adaptiveness"?
>
> If you want to prevent war in the long term, figure out what it takes
> for women to decide to reduce the number of kids they have to
> replacement (or below). Or figure out some way to increase economic
We know that: educate girls, improve the status of women, make contraception and abortion readily available.
> growth high enough to have rising income per capita even with
> population growth.
>
> It's remarkably simple and obvious. (Like so much that comes from EP
> insights.)
>
> Keith Henson
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