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By deploying the brain’s ability to compress information and think abstractly, humans are the only animals on the planet who can simply make things up, agree on them as a group, and they become real. This “social reality” is a superpower that gives us far more control over reality than we might think."Reality," phenomenal that is, is subjective constructed socially and layered on physicality. The Author explains how happens through "the Five Cs: creativity, communication, copying, cooperation, and compression."This ability and its use have enormous consequences for humans, the only species that is able to do this, and also on the planet, especially in a technological age of globalization in which humans shaped the environment.UndarkWhy Chimpanzees Don’t Hold Elections: The Power of Social
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By deploying the brain’s ability to compress information and think abstractly, humans are the only animals on the planet who can simply make things up, agree on them as a group, and they become real. This “social reality” is a superpower that gives us far more control over reality than we might think."Reality," phenomenal that is, is subjective constructed socially and layered on physicality. The Author explains how happens through "the Five Cs: creativity, communication, copying, cooperation, and compression."This ability and its use have enormous consequences for humans, the only species that is able to do this, and also on the planet, especially in a technological age of globalization in which humans shaped the environment.UndarkWhy Chimpanzees Don’t Hold Elections: The Power of Social
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By deploying the brain’s ability to compress information and think abstractly, humans are the only animals on the planet who can simply make things up, agree on them as a group, and they become real. This “social reality” is a superpower that gives us far more control over reality than we might think."Reality," phenomenal that is, is subjective constructed socially and layered on physicality.
The Author explains how happens through "the Five Cs: creativity, communication, copying, cooperation, and compression."
This ability and its use have enormous consequences for humans, the only species that is able to do this, and also on the planet, especially in a technological age of globalization in which humans shaped the environment.
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Why Chimpanzees Don’t Hold Elections: The Power of Social Reality
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Why Chimpanzees Don’t Hold Elections: The Power of Social Reality
Lisa Feldman Barrett
ht Global Economic Monitor
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