tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post7851387716274934296..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Sociobiological implications of the (historical) rural Chinese economy?Steve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-27315405035563886682011-03-20T12:44:38.676-04:002011-03-20T12:44:38.676-04:00The elite eugenicists' of the last century eff...The elite eugenicists' of the last century efforts were aimed at the "floor" (or the left side of the bell curve). They wanted people to have a baseline intellectual functioning level so they could function in *their* technocratic society. They probably were, understandably, as they are today, against any eugenic efforts aimed at the ceiling, (which ironically are much less if at John Grimeshttp://pulse.yahoo.com/_TX4B2JVROXFF7ASHGQPZEBRFQAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-58152411041167497032011-02-20T06:43:13.455-05:002011-02-20T06:43:13.455-05:00"prolonged by a culture that values subservie..."prolonged by a culture that values subservient unquestioning obedience to authority. "<br /><br /> Confucian culture never advocated servile deference to authority - the Analects and Mencius are very explicit about the need for counsellors and ministers to rebuke the prince when he is wrong, or for righteous statesmen to withdraw from the world when incumbent rulers are injust. Later Kennteohnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-30401864561220183272011-02-19T20:37:23.396-05:002011-02-19T20:37:23.396-05:00Was it lack of cooperation or trust, as others hav...Was it lack of cooperation or trust, as others have suggested?Francoisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-33333109769541730922011-02-19T20:31:17.654-05:002011-02-19T20:31:17.654-05:00Of course, this all begs the question: Why did th...Of course, this all begs the question: Why did the Scientific Revolution happen in Europe and not China? If the Chinese are so intelligent, they should have beaten Europeans to the Scientific Revolution or at least quickly caught up after the Europeans began to unlock nature's mysteries -- but they did not.Francoisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-9379232774287815212011-02-18T13:10:12.601-05:002011-02-18T13:10:12.601-05:00I'm skeptical there was as much social mobilit...I'm skeptical there was as much social mobility and "churn" with raw talent always and repeatedly rising to the top as Utz suggests. His youthful writing does betray an uncritical idealism and one-sided philo-sino attitude.<br /><br />In doing genealogy into my own roots, I came across Chinese who had family genealogies that went back many centuries and were pretty much on top mostDudashlarrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-87710224000074536142011-02-16T19:31:22.429-05:002011-02-16T19:31:22.429-05:00***But *please* do keep in mind that I did write i...***But *please* do keep in mind that I did write it as a college freshman for an independent study I'd persuaded E.O. Wilson to give me on Sociobiology.***<br /><br />What did EO Wilson think about the paper?<br /><br />***although it is fair to say the general line of thinking is quite old.***<br /><br />Yeah, but that old thinking has all been discredited :-)bottinoreply@blogger.com