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> Did those "diverse range of cultures" arise separately, or did humans originate in one location and spread their culture from there? If you define cultural i
by seneca 5y ago
> Did those "diverse range of cultures" arise separately, or did humans originate in one location and spread their culture from there?
If you define cultural influence as broadly as pre-historic shared origins, I fear you've stepped into the territory of unfalsifiable claims. Interesting conversationally, but useless scientifically.
- klyrs 5y agoIf you'd like to claim that one culture is totally independent from another culture, there's a pretty big burden of proof there and I reject it out of hand. Humans don't spontaneously materialize, abandoned infants rarely survive to adulthood, and nearly all cultures interact with their neighbors in some form or another (so even if they started independent, they won't remain so for long) Moral monstrosity aside, it should be possible to answer nature-vs-nurture questions by raising humans from infancy in a robo-nursery where they only interact with other such "culturally pristine" humans. Seed a dozen such communities and watch their culture evolve over several generations, and you'd have a pretty good basis to draw conclusions on nature vs nurture.
- nairboon 5y agoHow will you teach them a language in the robo-nursery without adding any culture?
- klyrs 5y agoI wasn't imagining any such education, just provision of physical needs. More like commercial chicken farming, less like an actual nursery you'd send a child to. I did say this was monstrous, after all. One may hope that altruism, compassion, and child-rearing are human nature, and the robo-nursery could be phased out.