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I found this passage really provocative as well! It got me wondering what sort of conceptualization and distinction these cultures and early humans had around g
by patcon 6y ago
I found this passage really provocative as well! It got me wondering what sort of conceptualization and distinction these cultures and early humans had around gender when they didn't see gender as the original way to split themselves.
It got me thinking about what sort of language a descendent of bonobos might develop, and even whether proto humans conceived of gender in a more fluid way during co-evolution of language and our biology that allowed for language. Wondering if there's anything here like the original sort of QWERTY entrenchment
- tom_mellior 6y agoWhy would they need to "split themselves"? What's good about creating divisions for divisions' sake? It's certainly not necessary for human languages to have gender distinctions.
- patcon 6y agoThere are often stabilities in dualities, and specifically in having two strategies. "Segment" themselves was perhaps a better term, but two segments is often what I'm personally interested in Feel free to investigate stability theory and specifically duality in dynamical systems (living cells themselves are dynamical systems, and I would venture human society could also be described as one) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Moshe-Farjoun/publication/271363842_Beyond_dualism_Stability_and_change_as_a_duality/links/5822fae008aeebc4f89831b9/Beyond-dualism-Stability-and-change-as-a-duality.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Moshe-Farjoun/publicati... http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~ugvaidya/papers/Vaidya_Allerton.pdf http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~ugvaidya/papers/Vaidya_Allerton...