Monday, March 12, 2012

Is the Tea Party Fair-Minded?

So cooperation, fuelled by righteousness, makes us civilized?
People have long been looking for what distinguishes us from chimps. Is it our thumbs, upright posture, language? I was very influenced by the psychologist Michael Tomasello, whose work shows that chimps are as smart as 3-year-old kids at most physical tasks. But expect them to liaise with another individual, sharing a representation of what they are doing, and chimps do poorly, while 3-year-olds are geniuses. This was the birth of what he calls "shared intentionality," which includes shared ideas about what we're trying to do, and how we should do it. This ability allows us all to judge and collectively condemn those who can't or won't play along.

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=69d03017600dd63ed55a3d9bab840384

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