Charles Tilly interview: individualism and cognitive science

[astroboomboy]

Why is it that in videos on social sciences and humanities there are comments like the one below? You would never find a comment like that on a video on the natural sciences. It makes me wonder what kinds of people are interested in social sciences, if anybody is the jackass it is the guy below me...

[JamesDestry1]

@astroboomboy fuck you: just because he is a scientist, does not mean he is correct. Many natural scientists, such as magnus, turned out to be wrong. As an indiviudalist, a subjectivist, and a humanist, I say that I disagree with this asshole, and I disagree with you.

[astroboomboy]

@JamesDestry1 What are you on? If this Magnus turned out to be wrong, well then the scientific approach worked.

[JamesDestry1]

@astroboomboy Fair enough, but I believe that the mind belongs to philosophy. Let matters of nature belong to science, let the mind belong to philosophy.

[astroboomboy]

@JamesDestry1 That depends on the nature of the mind. If it is only physical (which most philosophers of the mind think), then it certainly is within the domains of the natural sciences. It is not for any of us to decide what the realm of science is. Nature is what it is, wether you like it or not. Philosophy has long seemed like a dead-end to me.

[natritious1]

the individual is the individual. This guy is a jackass. anybody who sits infront of a bookface deserve a kick in the ass

[mdandrea39]

We form each other in transactions within a social framework within a particluar society, culture at a particluar poiint in time, in a distinct historical era. The notion put forth by Eviatar Zerbuval is we belong to "thought communities." There is individual cognition, human universal cognition, and social cognition. In scocial cognition we belong to many different groups which focus and shape our social optics, memories, and social consciousness. A sociology of mind via language !

[bonjeano]

@mdandrea39

yeah, but this doesn't touch the core subject of the video, that is, the question as to whether those cognitive elements of "thought communities" (or the latter in general) could in principle be explained in virtue of individual brain processes.

[mdandrea39]

@bonjeano

When we think about thinking maybe we should start with Social Optics. Information enters our brains sociomentally thorugh others. We are predisposed by our culture to see things a certain way and to perceive things in a disctinctive Western way. Our individuality exists of course but the social cognition should not be ignored. it is no accident that we like jeans, pizza, and hamburgers; we learn to smell , sense , perceive, attend, classify. and recoken time socially.