Hi, Jochen, Not sarcastic. It was to show the exploratory nature of such models. I do believe that the most mysterious feature of charisma is the behavior of the charasmees. However this election turns out, almost half the country is about to willingly offer up it's political autonomy to a potential dictator. Whatever my faults, I try, try, TRY not to do sarcasm. I do wonder if we could build models that explore under what circumstances it is better for everybody to do SOMETHING then to take the time to pool information and do the right thing.
In general evolutionary history has no actual power to constrain our present behavior. Our behavior is constrainted by present events and present behavioral repertoire. Nick On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 2:37 PM Jochen Fromm <j...@cas-group.net> wrote: > In her book "The Social Instinct" Nichola Raihani mentions in chapter 17 > the article "An evolutionary model explaining the Neolithic transition from > egalitarianism to leadership and despotism" from Simon T. Powers as a model > how despotic regimes and dominance hierarchies have evolved in early > human societies. > > https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2014.1349 > > It reminds me of our recent discussion triggered by Nick's (sarcastic?) > proposal to explain parts of the MAGA movement in terms of evolutionary > psychology. Simon T. Powers is an interdisciplinary researcher working at > the University of Sterling > > https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/2013555 > > A more recent article from him about "Modelling transitions between > egalitarian, dynamic leader and absolutist power structures" can be found > here > > https://www.stir.ac.uk/research/hub/publication/2041639 > > > -J. > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > -- Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology Clark University nthomp...@clarku.edu https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson
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