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2015年6月21日 · Description. Michael Hogan: "David McClelland described two types of power needs, p-power (power needs for personal goals) and. s-power (power needs focused on goals for an institution, a group or a society).
2024年4月6日 · Description. "During the past twenty-five years, scientists have challenged conventional views of evolution and the organization of living systems and have developed new theories with revolutionary philosophical and social (Text sourced from ) implications. Fritjof Capra has been at the forefront of this revolution. In The Web of Life, Capra ...
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"In 1982, I went on my first archaeological excavation in Greece. I was thrilled: I had dug a lot in Britain, but this was something else entirely. An ancient Land Rover took me from Birmingham as far as Thessaloniki, where I caught an even more ancient bus to Assiros, the farming village where we would be working (figure 1.1).¹ There I settled int...
I begin with foraging societies. “Foraging,” one standard reference work helpfully suggests, means the “hunting of wild animals, gathering of wild plants, and fishing, with no domestication of plants, and no domesticated animals except the dog”¹ (hence the common use of the term “hunter-gatherers” as a synonym for “foragers”). The consequence of th...
Farmers are people whose most important source of energy is domesticated plants and animals. At the start of chapter 2, I quoted Catherine Panter-Brick’s definition of foragers as people who “exercise no deliberate alteration of the gene pool of exploited resources” and consequently “live in small groups, and . . . move around a lot”;¹ farmers, by ...
Humanity has always depended on solar energy. Sunlight hits the earth, where plants photosynthesize it into chemical energy; animals eat the plants, converting their chemical energy to kinetic energy; and humans eat both plants and other animals. In the last two centuries, however, humans have vastly increased the amount of energy they capture by l...
In chapters 2 to 4, I attempted to tell the story of human values across the twenty thousand years since the coldest point of the last ice age. I suggested that modern human values initially emerged somewhere around 100,000 years ago (± 50,000 years) as a consequence of the biological evolution of our big, fast brains, and that once we had our big,...
I too, as Ian did, would in Kenya have paid a local family to fetch and boil the water. He drew the lesson that biological evolution has given us common sense, which tells us to adapt to our circumstances. But “common sense” is—paradoxically—usually ideological. Ian was in Kenya as a temporary individual observer. For the villagers, it would be bet...
In my response to the Tanner Lecture presentation made by Ian Morris, I emphasized the great distance that separated the our two scholarly approaches to history. Morris worked on a complex global scale, moving back and forth across vast spans of time and space, whereas I stayed with specific individuals in all their intricacies at the local level, ...
Ian Morris assures us that he does not think his view implies “that what is (let alone what has been) is what ought to be.”⁴ Nevertheless, Morris’s speculations raise questions about the relationship between the values that people actually do hold, or have held, and the values that we ought to hold, if indeed there are any such values. In order to ...
I would like to thank Professor Morris for his stimulating, bracing, synthesizing, and heart-stoppingly terrifying lecture, which I predict will soon become a video game, like Snakes and Ladders but with a lot more snakes. Let me briefly place myself. I’m a writer of fiction—I say this without shame, especially since the brain gurus have revealed t...
In academia, criticism is the sincerest form of flattery. I therefore owe major thanks to Phil Kleinheinz, Josh Ober, Kathy St. John, Walter Scheidel, Paul Seabright, Ken Wardle, the Princeton University Press’s two anonymous reviewers, and my tireless and patient editors Steve Macedo and Rob Tempio, all of whom read and commented on earlier versio...
2018年9月6日 · Neurocapitalism takes us on an extraordinarily original journey through the effects that cutting-edge technology has on cultural, anthropological, socio-economic and political dynamics. Today, neurocapitalism shapes the technological production of the commons, transforming them into tools for commercialization, automatic control, and crisis ...
The following documentation was originally taken from the endnotes of P2P and Human Evolution, per concept in alphabetic order.Click on the internal links for more explanation, quotes, and resources. At this stage, it is therefore more a kind of dictionary of citations ...
Definition. "People’s organizations (POs), unlike NGOs, are established by and represent sectors of the population like small farmers, artisanal fisherfolk, slum dwellers and others. POs take a wide variety of forms and exist at various levels.
Description. From the Wikipedia: "Rock's law or Moore's second law, named for Arthur Rock or Gordon Moore, says that the cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years. As of 2015, the price had already reached about 14 billion US dollars.
