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Stephen Grossman's avatar

>happiness...metrics to measure this

And, yet, curiously, very curiously, you dont tell us.

> tribal affiliations are ingrained in our evolutionary makeup

Man has free will to focus or evade focusing his mind. This is known by common human experience, not science. Evolution stopped w/mans free will mind because that is the most powerful method for mans life. You rationalize the cowardly sacrifice of independent judgment to social approval. Better social conditions protect and reward mans free will mind.

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e.pierce's avatar

Incoherent, scientifically illiterate nonsense. Just as "race" doesn't exist (as good science), race denialism is equally bad science. Gene pools matter. Classical liberalism only appeared 1,000 years ago in the outbred gene pool in NW Europe. Inbred gene pools are never classically liberal, with high-social-trust institutions such as formal/constitutional law, they are always clannish and low trust.

See Samuel Bowles' 2008 Ulam Lectures, Santa Fe Institute.

Are you a Rand fetishist. or similar?

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Stephen Grossman's avatar

Yes, Im a Rand fetishist. Ive grown weary of statistical studies of emotions posing as science.

Have you ever considered science as the product of a focused mind? As bluesman, Johhny Winter almost sang it,"Realitys out there,babe, its sneakin' up on ya Its gonna git ya wherever you go.

>"race" doesn't exist (as good science), race denialism is equally bad science.

If you mess up your mind w/contraadictions, it will respond w/demons.

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e.pierce's avatar

Rand cultists, like all cultists, are sociopathic, emotional manipulators.

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Stephen Grossman's avatar

Your rationalization of intellectual cowardice as response to social disapproval is noted.

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e.pierce's avatar

There is EXACTLY NOTHING that you have said that is either "focused" or "scientific".

ZERO.

Troll.

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Stephen Grossman's avatar

Materialism is a rationalization of (1) the evasion of the mind, focused or unfocused; and (2) a hidden acceptance of the pre-scientific mind/body spllt. Mystics and materialists each accept and reject different sides of the split. Materialism is science like a whore is a wife.

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e.pierce's avatar

This is simple:

BOTH the pro-race faction AND the anti-race ("race denier") faction are wrong, in different ways, about the science of human population genetics.

Your inability to think coherently, at a basic level, is a strong indicator that you are mentally dysfunctional.

You are a waste of time.

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Stephen Grossman's avatar

>wrong, in different ways

You evade identifying them, thus impossible to judge your claim.

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e.pierce's avatar

Everything you have said so far is muddled gibberish and a PROJECTION of your mental dysfunction. Waste of time. You think you understand science, but you obviously don't because you do not appear to be capable of anything other than lazy, slobbery generalizations.

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Stephen Grossman's avatar

Agreed, in the context of the unfocused mind.

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