Comments on: Bio, Profile, Blurb…blah! http://natalieshell.com/2005/11/29/bio-profile-blurbblah/ small bites to think talk & walk Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:11:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Natalie Shell: think talk walk » Blog Archive » Clarity Emerges: A tale of Phi, The Golden Ratio and The Chambered Nautilus http://natalieshell.com/2005/11/29/bio-profile-blurbblah/#comment-87 Natalie Shell: think talk walk » Blog Archive » Clarity Emerges: A tale of Phi, The Golden Ratio and The Chambered Nautilus Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:46:30 +0000 http://natalieshell.com/2005/11/29/bio-profile-blurbblah/#comment-87 [...] lection. The wading in confusion is an essential and necessary, though challenging, step. There was yesterday’s murky yet important long long long rant [...] [...] lection. The wading in confusion is an essential and necessary, though challenging, step. There was yesterday’s murky yet important long long long rant [...]

]]> By: Anthony http://natalieshell.com/2005/11/29/bio-profile-blurbblah/#comment-84 Anthony Tue, 29 Nov 2005 01:01:20 +0000 http://natalieshell.com/2005/11/29/bio-profile-blurbblah/#comment-84 Can''t resist pointing out Edward O. Wilson's book Consilience. Also can't resist pointing out the ugly connection with social Darwinism (*). Double-edged sword. I'm becoming more convinced of the value of obsessing over social constructions as anthropologists do. I think that speaks to the idea of filters and to your comment about how the world we get is the world we see/say. What we see and what we say come not just from ourselves but also from the social settings we inhabit. (*) which came from the 'consilience' between what happens in biological evolution and the observation that some people have low 'economic fitness' while others thrive. The fallacy is that, while biological fitness is in some sense intrinsic to an organism, 'economic fitness' is a human construction, a consequent of the economy which we ourselves create. So, social Darwinism is discrimination in disguise (I'm sticking to the economic version, but similar reasoning applies in other social settings). Can”t resist pointing out Edward O. Wilson’s book Consilience. Also can’t resist pointing out the ugly connection with social Darwinism (*). Double-edged sword. I’m becoming more convinced of the value of obsessing over social constructions as anthropologists do. I think that speaks to the idea of filters and to your comment about how the world we get is the world we see/say. What we see and what we say come not just from ourselves but also from the social settings we inhabit.

(*) which came from the ‘consilience’ between what happens in biological evolution and the observation that some people have low ‘economic fitness’ while others thrive. The fallacy is that, while biological fitness is in some sense intrinsic to an organism, ‘economic fitness’ is a human construction, a consequent of the economy which we ourselves create. So, social Darwinism is discrimination in disguise (I’m sticking to the economic version, but similar reasoning applies in other social settings).

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