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 You don't have two questions; you have one question posed two different ways. Basically, you are asking if I think humans are determined by the environment, by the entropy, by the chaos. And the answer is "no." Humans are not determined. They are conditioned. The first human builds a house out of the trees in the forest. Her daughter inherits the house and adds a fence to hold the wild animals she captures during her lifetime. Agency is fundamental to these activities, but agency is intimately tied with the surrounding objects, and the surrounding objects are in turn intimately tied with historical process.

-- ShayBanerjee - 29 Mar 2015

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Thanks for your clarification. I agree with your last sentence. I think it is interesting to develop an account of how agency is intertwined with the surrounding, and the two-way relationship that exists between ourselves (both conscious and unconscious) and the environment. I only read part of Diamond's book several years ago, but I felt he emphasized the relationship from the environment to human beings more so than the other way around.

-- AbdallahSalam - 01 Apr 2015

 
 
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