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A model variable measuring whether social conditions make people cooperate and work together.
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compassion
A model variable measuring whether social conditions make people cooperate and work together.
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Survival of the fittest is not Jiang's account of historical human organization; he says humans are usually compassionate toward the ill, elderly, and weak.
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Jiang says survival of the fittest is wrong as a human rule because most human history shows compassion, empathy, divinity in creatures, and special care for the weak.
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Schopenhauer's solution is compassion, art, and self-denial, a secularized Buddhist/Hindu logic culminating in nirvana through desire removal.
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Answering Celine, he says love, learning, and creation can be modeled through agency, freedom, social interaction, and compassion.
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He says social arrangements shape compassion: shared survival can produce cooperation, while competitive money incentives can make people hate each other.
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"have as many children as possible and that's why after this transition from matriarchy to patriarchy a lot of women start to die okay..."
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"knows who the fathers are everything starts over for caring for for taking care of every single child and that's the best strategy that..."
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"But we're not apes. We're imaginative first and foremost. And as such, we have control over our lives. And that's something that you have..."
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"And you only do that for people you really prize. That's kind of strange, right? The people who we think that are most worthless,..."
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"So his great solution to this is compassion. As humans, we must first and foremost be compassionate towards each other and remind ourselves that..."
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"Does that make sense? So he says, Life has no intrinsic worth but is kept in motion merely by desire and illusion. And as..."
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"...thing is you also have to model in the idea of compassion. Okay? So the idea here is that if I all put you..."
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"Okay. Okay. How do you model love, learn, and create? Okay? And the answer is that there has to be a certain amount of..."
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"...to the world of the light. It is a world of compassion, of love, of forgiveness. It is as though you're connected again with..."
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"...to the monad and as long as you use love forgiveness compassion this spark will activate and it will release you from your slavery..."
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"...the slaves are free and they can liberate one through their compassion through their love through their forgiveness okay and that's why the roman..."
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"...because remember the true god the monad is pure love pure compassion pure forgiveness he can do no wrong he's perfection and if you..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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