Episode 18: "Boy If Life Were Only Like This" (With Joe Henrich)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Unsettling Constraints of Small-Scale Societys
Bayne: I think that the discomfort stems from two sources, one which Joe points out, which is shit. The other one is more stemming from a desire not to discard what we think has been accumulated evidence for universality. And so, and Bayne is a bit more serious than just we should study other cultures. It is, at what point can we say we have evidence that constitutes a reliable claim about the universal human mind? Do I need to,. you know, can I study, is 15 small-scale societies enough?
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