> Humans are fundamentally solitary. That is our nature
Amazing, every word of what that guy said is wrong.
Maybe he was actually talking about cats, that would make sense. But humans literally can't function outside of a society.
Amazing, every word of what that guy said is wrong.
Maybe he was actually talking about cats, that would make sense. But humans literally can't function outside of a society.
We are fundamentally a tribal species. Our entire evolutionary history—the thing that turned us into the species we are—revolves around our incredible ability to cooperate and share information. The basic unit of survival for our species is the tribe, not the individual. So at one very fundamental level, we must be around others to survive and thrive. We must subsume parts of ourselves that are unacceptable to the tribe so that we can be allowed to be one of its members. "Us" is more important than "I".
But at the exact same time, the tribe only wants and needs us if we can provide value, preferably unique value to it. So while we need to fit in to survive, we must also stand out in ways that the tribe finds valuable, explore where other tribespeople won't and bring back resources (physical, conceptual, etc.) that others can't.
The tension between these two opposing forces—to conform or to stand out—is, I think, one of the key pieces of being human.
> A small-world network is a type of mathematical graph in which most nodes are not neighbors of one another, but the neighbors of any given node are likely to be neighbors of each other and most nodes can be reached from every other node by a small number of hops or steps.
The caveat being: there are also people who are the polar opposite, so the global scope of that statement is indeed a bit to broad.
Also consider this: we are social animals, but this does not automatically imply that everything we are doing we like to do in a social setting. E.g. most humans will prefer not to defecate in public. Many people instinctively pull back from society in times of shock, grief or pain etc.
> Because the subject wasn’t engaged in a specific task, it was easy for researchers to think of the default network as something that comes on when you’re thinking about nothing. A little self-reflection, however, makes clear that our brains are hardly ever actually thinking about nothing. Even without a specific task, they tend to remain highly active, with thoughts and ideas flitting by in an ongoing noisy chatter. On further self-reflection, Lieberman realized that this background hum of activity tends to focus on a small number of targets: thoughts about “other people, yourself, or both.” The default network, in other words, seems to be connected to social cognition.
Everyone generalizes from a sample size of one.
https://sectionhiker.com/dick-proenneke-builds-a-log-cabin-i...
Not to mention your counter claim makes no sense and is far too broad. Which humans can't function outside of a society? All of them? For how long? For 10 milliseconds? What do you mean by "function"? What does it mean to be "outside of a society"?
The post makes perfect sense to anyone who is actually willing to understand it, rather than poorly attempt to nitpick at some aspect of it you hold near and dear to your heart.
But are you taking exception to the parent chuckling over the premise of humans as solitary animals? Humankind of society and culture and trade and language and art solitary animals?