BIO 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Prison Officer, Authoritarianism, Fox News
14 Jun 2018
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Topic 24: Final considerations—the contemporary world and a humane future
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1) Final considerations—the contemporary world and a humane future
a) SCT makes a simple prediction about everything
b) Coercively managing COI problem → all events inc present and future, are based on two things:
i) COI and
ii) who and how they are managed
iii) everything is an effect of this
c) each adaptive revolution is driven by a new weapon of appropriate scale
d) historical change is about COI and how and how they are managed
2) Power and the evolved human mind
a) Might=right
i) Power = who determines what is right
b) Cybernetic of Production Hierarchy
i) Humanity becomes an adaptive opportunity because we all insist on it from each other
c) Dominance hierarchy
i) If they do’t sho threat and intimidation, they might unite and go against elite
ii) Inhumane behavior is rewarded as the best alternative option
iii) Proximate psychology in the FACE of overwhelming power?
(1) It is the context that you put people in, not the person that defined how they behave
(2) Video on this experiment
(a) 2/3 of volunteers were okay with shocking them
iv) Proximate psychology when we POSSESS overwhelming power?
(1) Prison guard prisoner experiment
(a) Video on this experiment
(i) Prison guards become overly abusive and it became inhumane
(ii) The guards ere surprised they ee did that ad they did’t feel ay regret or guilt, ut
only after they were reflecting did they feel those things
d) Polarizing people→ making people fight laterally than looking up
i) Race
ii) Religion
iii) Political parties
iv) Men v women
v) We have more in common than
others would like us to believe.
What are our proximate
mechanisms doing?
vi) CONTROL OF ACCESS TO CREDIBLE
THREAT is what really matters
3) Coercive power within the modern state
a) Authoritarianism
i) Archaic state
ii) Modern authoritarian state
b) Democracy
c) Distribution of coercive power
d) Society is always drived towards one
extreme
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