SOCI 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Intentionality, Neocortex, Cerebral Cortex
9 Nov 2017
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Situated content - general form of social relations by playing roles. Kin and kith structures: audience for role performance - family, friends, how many family and friends can one handle, for apes, it"s determined by neocortex, contacts and size neocortex: vervet monkeys can handle 30, bonobos - 60. Neocortex humans - 150(can manage face to face: newest par of the cerebral cortex - there are 100 billion cells, each with 1k to 10k synapses 100 million meters of wiring. Favours natural selection in primates//apes and large groups. Surveillance: spend most of their time on the ground and in open areas. Reproductive reasons: most resourceful rise to top. Dunbar numbers: larger brain for networks of social contacts (meet others and keep in consideration, neocortex relations need larger neocortex) Social intelligence: members of large groups defend on intense complex awareness of others, more members with large neocortex leads to, permanence - hard to leave group/ knowledge - awareness of group members.
