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But none of that makes it "human nature." It's still cultural.

• waterlesscloud 12y ago
  Are there mammals of any sort that don't acknowledge passing other mammals in some way? Is that cultural?
• netcan 12y ago
  Are we talking semantically (what is the definition of human nature?) or something else? IE If we find that living within a family group is how humans lived from pre-sapiens times until recent times, does that "prove" that something is human nature (it's how we evolved to behave), isn't human nature (we don't behave that way now) or is that tangental (it proves nothing)? For the purposes of the thread, I don't think it matters much if we disagree about a technicality. I just wanted to make an analogy about the future being very alien to inhabitants of the present to the point that the ways it will be different and how we'll feel about that will be hard to conceive. Walking through a group of strangers without looking up from your phone (or iStone, if you're a caveman) would have been as weird as walking through a pack of hyenas. Insane. If a caveman had tried to imagine how he'd feel about that world, he'd probably imagine feeling terrified all the time. Do you play with everyone's kids or ignore them too. Do you have sex with everyone? What happens if you're eating a sandwich? They wouldn't even know which questions are relevant to imagining how they'd feel. I'm making the case that self culture (JennicCam, Facebook, JustinTV) is the very start of something which is so alien to us that it's hard to address in a non ridiculous way.