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Being a member of particular social groups (families, tribes, societies, nations) ⇒ Its implicit knowledge and apperception ⇒ Our actions, beliefs, desires, values … the self
1-2g1c3a Humans have no nature and no self apart from the experiences they have united in their memories (the Buddhist notion of anatman - ‘no self’)
1-1a2e7a Apperceptions = The ways by which we process, make sense of, and assimilate our experiencesdevelop [Culture affects our apperceptions?]
10-1c Culture is an abstract network shaping and connecting social roles, hierarchically structured knowledge domains and ranked values. It’s dynamic and subject to change.
10-2g1f2a2 You can’t separate the mind from the context-culture-body that generated-evolved it. Cartesian dualism is arbitrary categorization-abstraction. -
1-1a2e6a The dark matter of mind is multilayered, differentially manifested, and variously derived from the experiences of living:
1-2g1c3c Self = A sequence of experiences (‘recursive definition of the self’) -
1-1a2e7 Culture is the individual dark matter acquired from culturing, social acting, languaging:
10-1b4 Children concentrically embody their ever-widening knowledge structures by testing the degree of its correspondence in comparison with other members of the society- Games, utterances, speech acts, discourses, symbols, icons - these are our hermeneutics
1-1a2e7 Dark matter both help and impede our perception of the world
- Games, utterances, speech acts, discourses, symbols, icons - these are our hermeneutics