A Noam Chomsky & Robert Trivers conversation


	A Noam Chomsky & Robert Trivers conversation

Djiezes

9-8-2006 5:31 PM

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noam chomsky, chomsky, robert trivers, trivers, youtube, video, conversation, evolution, foreign policy, deception

Djiezes says:

Starts with politics, about halfway they switch over to an interesting theory about agression & (self-)deception & foreign policy

here 's the transcript

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				Category: <A href="http://scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist/behavior/">behavior</A> • <A href="http://scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist/evolution/">evolution</A> • <A href="http://scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist/foreign_policy/">foreign policy</A>
Posted on: September  7, 2006  8:07 PM, by <A href="http://scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist/">Nick Anthis</A>
			</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist/2006/09/selfdeception_from_biology_to.php"><P>Robert Trivers was the first to describe the theory of reciprocal altruism and Noam Chomsky is... well... Noam Chomsky is the man (not to be confused with The Man).  What happens when you bring together in one room the evolutionary theorist who changed the way we think about cooperation and social interactions with the intellectual who has probably done more to challenge entrenched power structures in our society than anyone else?  A hell of an interesting conversation, that's what.  From <A href="http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/09/seed_video_feature_noam_chomsk.php"><EM>Seed</EM> magazine</A>:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist/2006/09/selfdeception_from_biology_to.php"><P>Chomsky and Trivers discuss the role of self-deception in a variety of human behaviors, from impressing the opposite sex to leading the U.S. into a misguided and deadly war in Iraq.  These guys certainly have a knack for tying it all together, and they do it here once again.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist/2006/09/selfdeception_from_biology_to.php"><P>The full text of the discussion can be found <A href="http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/09/noam_chomsky_robert_trivers.php">here</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/25BE1D58-818A-49C0-9F35-5CF6C85020FC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>