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EP 172 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism

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The Relationship Between Individual Development and Cultural Evolution

If you go back in time, you basically don't see formal operational thinking except in little kind of fits and starts amongst the elite like Plato and Pectus or whoever. And it's only in sort of the last 500 years that you get the cultural institutions that allow for formal operational thought to be inculcated on a mass scale. So that would be one way of thinking about it. But if you're looking for kind of more evidence along these lines, there's, I'm writing kind of my next work is sort of about this topic in many ways.

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