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Jiang says he is now a player rather than only an observer, which constrains his prediction accuracy and objectivity.
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Influence
In response to the student, Jiang says myth-making is a natural human process for justifying hierarchy, so similar myths may arise with or without direct influence.
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A student asks how a private imagined world can make others follow if it is not communicated or enacted.
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In response to the student, Jiang says myth-making is a natural human process for justifying hierarchy, so similar myths may arise with or without direct influence.
method
Jiang says comparative mythology should assume influence among connected cultures, but exact influence is less important than each culture's local needs, superiority claims, and internal adaptation.
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Statius is an epic poet like Virgil and treats Virgil as holy fire, mother, and nurse of his own poetry.
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Jiang says Aristotle's original authorship is debatable, but his tremendous influence on the world is not.
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normative
Jiang concludes that the Greeks were the most influential and consequential civilization of all time and the most creative, with no other civilization close to their creativity.
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Jiang says Socrates may not have been much of an intellectual influence on Plato because Socrates questioned other people's wisdom but did not propose theories of his own.
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"...I'm a player. Okay. And I also get a lot of influence from other people who want to control my predictions. I understand that...."
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"...head but I did not tell others or I did not influence others uh, by my actions, how could I like, like others to..."
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"so my first question is like earlier you mentioned that there are three ancient civilizations that are very close to each other like Egyptian..."
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"but to be honest like are there any connections between the their distance and how they made all of this myth and their methodologies..."
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"...so it's almost impossible for us to answer how much they influence each other okay because even if they were not in contact with..."
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"...popular culture probably a lot but how much okay also whatever influence that you have you still also have your own personal needs as..."
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"Who are you? How are you able to accomplish this? In that age, when the worthy Titus, with help from the highest king, avenged..."
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"So he's an epic poet, just like Virgil. The sparks that warm me, the seeds of my ardor were from the holy fire, the..."
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"...the original thinker, but what is not debatable is the tremendous influence he had on the entire world, okay?"
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"And through the process of synchronization, new forms of knowledge are being created. So the Greeks spread the knowledge to India, and now it's..."
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"...question, okay? Okay. That's a good question, okay? What are the influences of Plato, okay? So you can make the argument that Socrates was..."
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