The Neurological and Behavioristic Psychological Basis of the Ordering of Society by Means of Ideas

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Cultural factors are related to biol. factors in social institutions by the biologically-defined purposeful behavior of human neurological systems containing negative feedback mechanisms and the normative social theory defined in terms of the universals which are the epistemic correlates of trains of impulses in neural nets that are reverberating circuits. Because overt behavior can be tripped by impulses from reverberating circuits whose activity conforms to universals, as well as by impulses coming immediately from an external particular event, the behavior of men can be, and is, causally detd. by embodiments of ideas as well as by particular environmental facts. Since human brains in early primitive societies are provided with reverberating circuits, just as are the brains of modern men, it follows, though the specific universals may be different, that normative social philosophies will be significant in any culture. In short, in any culture embodied ideas defining purposes or ideals really matter.

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