Dr. Stephen Hicks

And socially, we'll start to work out the win-win positive, some social things. Otherwise, we will sort of regress socially and evolutionary to chimp and baboon kinds of levels.

That's right. They're all left with it. That's right. That's what they're left with. You're getting rid of human cognitive power as a positive thing. Then you ask, well, what's left? If it's not the case that I think my human cognition

That's right. They're all left with it. That's right. That's what they're left with. You're getting rid of human cognitive power as a positive thing. Then you ask, well, what's left? If it's not the case that I think my human cognition

That's right. They're all left with it. That's right. That's what they're left with. You're getting rid of human cognitive power as a positive thing. Then you ask, well, what's left? If it's not the case that I think my human cognition

my mind puts me in touch with reality and that i can work out reality and that your cognition puts you in touch with reality and of course maybe we're initially focusing on things we have different frameworks but that we nonetheless have the cognitive tools to talk about these things to do the experiments to you know i can visit you what you've experienced to take each other's position that's right in service of some higher goal

my mind puts me in touch with reality and that i can work out reality and that your cognition puts you in touch with reality and of course maybe we're initially focusing on things we have different frameworks but that we nonetheless have the cognitive tools to talk about these things to do the experiments to you know i can visit you what you've experienced to take each other's position that's right in service of some higher goal

my mind puts me in touch with reality and that i can work out reality and that your cognition puts you in touch with reality and of course maybe we're initially focusing on things we have different frameworks but that we nonetheless have the cognitive tools to talk about these things to do the experiments to you know i can visit you what you've experienced to take each other's position that's right in service of some higher goal

That's right. And that we can work all of these things out to, in effect, have an agreed upon understanding of the nature of reality. Then, if that's not what's going on, that cognition is about trying to use our minds to understand reality, reality starts to drop out of the picture. Right. And what the postmoderns then do is either say, well, I make up my own reality.

That's right. And that we can work all of these things out to, in effect, have an agreed upon understanding of the nature of reality. Then, if that's not what's going on, that cognition is about trying to use our minds to understand reality, reality starts to drop out of the picture. Right. And what the postmoderns then do is either say, well, I make up my own reality.

That's right. And that we can work all of these things out to, in effect, have an agreed upon understanding of the nature of reality. Then, if that's not what's going on, that cognition is about trying to use our minds to understand reality, reality starts to drop out of the picture. Right. And what the postmoderns then do is either say, well, I make up my own reality.

That's what's going on here. Or some of them are more passive. All of the influences of more environmental deterministic understandings of human beings. What we call learning and cognition is just being conditioned by your environment, your social upbringing, right, and so on. So, again, we don't have an autonomous… The dominant patriarchy.

That's what's going on here. Or some of them are more passive. All of the influences of more environmental deterministic understandings of human beings. What we call learning and cognition is just being conditioned by your environment, your social upbringing, right, and so on. So, again, we don't have an autonomous… The dominant patriarchy.

That's what's going on here. Or some of them are more passive. All of the influences of more environmental deterministic understandings of human beings. What we call learning and cognition is just being conditioned by your environment, your social upbringing, right, and so on. So, again, we don't have an autonomous… The dominant patriarchy.

Yeah, or there could be any sort of social structure from their perspective. But that then means that what we are interested in is primarily social relationships, right?

Yeah, or there could be any sort of social structure from their perspective. But that then means that what we are interested in is primarily social relationships, right?

Yeah, or there could be any sort of social structure from their perspective. But that then means that what we are interested in is primarily social relationships, right?

not me in relation to reality and other people are part of reality so i have to work that out but rather the assumption is that i am inextricably molded by and shaped by my social reality and so the dynamic between us socially is the thing that comes to be and the word there that becomes most important is the power word It's a kind of social power.

not me in relation to reality and other people are part of reality so i have to work that out but rather the assumption is that i am inextricably molded by and shaped by my social reality and so the dynamic between us socially is the thing that comes to be and the word there that becomes most important is the power word It's a kind of social power.

not me in relation to reality and other people are part of reality so i have to work that out but rather the assumption is that i am inextricably molded by and shaped by my social reality and so the dynamic between us socially is the thing that comes to be and the word there that becomes most important is the power word It's a kind of social power.

Oh yeah, absolutely. It's the social construction theory that leads them to have that social understanding of power. But the power for them cannot be the positive sum