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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · Sep 2
What I should have said here is that this is a clue (bsky.app/profile/text...). Consciousness is a mystery in part because it lies in between behaviorism and individualistic psychologism. It was BUILT for and functions through communicative sociality.

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Josh Fisher, A Function-First Account of Human Social and Individual Consciousness as Cultural Evolution Engine - PhilPapers
This article advances a function-first account of social and individual consciousness as the engine of cumulative cultural evolution. At the social level, joint attention (a We-mode) objectifies share...
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 21h
So timely.
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 23h
"The master minds of all nations...have sprung in affluent multitude...from the mass of the nation only—not from its privileged classes...no matter what the nation's intellectual grade was...the bulk of its ability was in the long ranks of its nameless and its poor."

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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Greg Ashman @gregashman.bsky.social · 1d
NEW FREE POST Part three of my series on arguments against explicit teaching

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Five arguments against explicit teaching
#3 Explicit teaching kills teacher creativity and autonomy
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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 1d
Agreed! It was one of my 5 recommended books on cultural evolution here:
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Lynne Kelly @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social · 1d
Memory, cramming and exams

Today, 3:05PM, I'll be talking with Chris Bath on ABC Radio Sydney 702 on memory systems and last minute tricks - music and art.

Music and art are innate skills used by humans for millennia across all cultures, as per The Knowledge Gene and Memory Craft - so useful!
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 1d
"Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff. And her training was everybody’s. The brightest intellect in the land would not have been able to see that her position was defective."

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 1d
It's like all the words for 'snow' . . .
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 1d
addlepate, blatherskite, caitiff, driveler, epigone, fribble, gudgeon, hobbledehoy, ignoramus, jobbernowl, kakistocrat, lickspittle, mountebank, ninnyhammer, omadhaun, poltroon, quisling, rudesby, spalpeen, tergiversator, ultracrepidarian, varlet, wastrel, Xanthippe, yahoo, zoilist
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 2d
Early modern, early modern.
Lots of bad stuff in the early modern.
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 2d
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Eleanor Janega on Medieval Sex!
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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 3d
Sal Khan's career is very much a "right place right time" situation and he has not learned a single thing about teaching in all these years.
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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 3d
sal khan on his true north knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/at-k...
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 3d
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Dude - Wikipedia
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 3d
"Between the truth of your life and the truth of my life is the space between us. That space is not shallow, as a corporation would have us think. Nor is it nonexistent, as the internet might have us believe."
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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 3d
John Jeremiah Sullivan! ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/john-jerem...
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 3d
And it takes us a long time to say, "Listen, maybe we have the wrong fundamental perspective. I know this one makes us look like shamans dealing in strange knowledge that one must know math to make sense of, which is alluring and inflating, but if the planets are going backwards . . . bruh."
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 3d
There is little difference between the impulse to put the Earth at the center of the solar system and the same to fashion education as esoterica--except that maybe the former is more forgivable. There are near-useless epicycles in both visions--that we love to argue about, obliviously.
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 4d
I have an editor for this. 🙌

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Josh Fisher, A Function-First Account of Human Social and Individual Consciousness as Cultural Evolution Engine - PhilPapers
This article advances a function-first account of social and individual consciousness as the engine of cumulative cultural evolution. At the social level, joint attention (a We-mode) objectifies share...
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 4d
Practically havin' a séance over here.
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 4d
"I know nothing more idiotic, barbarous, and unworthy of the times in which we live. But I did not think I could meddle with the custom, although I was often greatly tempted to give public expression to my views." --Prince Alfonso Carlos de Borbón

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The Effort to Abolish the Duel on JSTOR
Alfonso De Bourbon Et Autriche-Este, The Effort to Abolish the Duel, The North American Review, Vol. 175, No. 549 (Aug., 1902), pp. 194-200
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 5d
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Other(ing) People's Children: Social Mothering, Schooling, and Race in Late Nineteenth Century New Orleans and San Francisco on JSTOR
Joseph O. Jewell, Other(ing) People's Children: Social Mothering, Schooling, and Race in Late Nineteenth Century New Orleans and San Francisco, Race, Gender & Class, Vol. 21, No. 3/4, RGC Intersection...
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 5d
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Why White Women Tried to Ban Native American Dances - JSTOR Daily
In the early 1920s, reformers obsessed over the sexual nature of some Pueblo rituals, and attempted to control their performance.
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 5d
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What We Lose When We Lose Indigenous Knowledge - JSTOR Daily
By mistaking a culture’s history for fantasy, or by disrespecting the wealth of Indigenous knowledge, we’re keeping up a Columbian, colonial tradition.
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 5d
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Wohaw - A Man Receiving Power from Two Spirit Animals - Kiowa - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social · 5d
@jstordaily.bsky.social’s roundup for #IndigenousPeoplesDay brings together stories that honor Indigenous cultures and histories, dispels myths, and examines ongoing struggles and resilience.

Read the roundup: https://bit.ly/4n2pvyn
A page of ledger art shows about a dozen Indigenous people in profile, arranged in small groups across a tan sheet. They wear feathered hairstyles and sashes and walk or dance while carrying rifles, staffs, and a round shield. No background or scenery.
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 5d
Oh Solitude, where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face?

Better live in the midst of alarms than dwell in this horrible place.
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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 5d
Oh my gosh, like Han Solo!
For corn's sake, someone rescue him.
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