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Three Phases of Human Sociality
Elliott Ash | | | In Phase 2, social networks are organized geographically. The emergence of civilized behavior allows economic and social transaction with the members of everyone in one's geographic community. | |
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< | In Phase 3, social networks are organized conceptually. The internet enables unmediated social connection between any individual. Geography no longer meaningfully restricts the range of possible social partners, so communities organize around information: e.g., ideas, habits, and tastes. | >
> | In Phase 3, social networks are organized conceptually. The internet enables unmediated social connection between any individual. Geography no longer meaningfully restricts the range of possible social partners, so communities organize around information: e.g., ideas, habits, and tastes. Biological and other physical characteristics no longer influence the construction of relationships. Stereotyping individuals must be done by analyzing grammar and syntax rather than appearance and accent. | | | | |
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- Phase 1: reciprocal reward and punishment
- Phase 2: legal system
- Phase 3: State instruments of social control are no longer necessary, because individuals can no longer hurt each other.
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< | In the later phases, emotions increasingly lose their importance for enforcement of social norms and the punishment of deviance. As the range of social partners increases, deviance becomes normalized as subcommunities develop. In the cities of Phase 2, those subcommunities can develop around most deviant subcultures. In Phase 3, deviance no longer exists. We might not be invisible to the government? , but our online activities are totally secret to those in our geographic community. | >
> | In the later phases, emotions increasingly lose their importance for enforcement of social norms and the punishment of deviance. As the range of social partners increases, deviance becomes normalized as subcommunities develop. In the cities of Phase 2, those subcommunities can develop around most deviant subcultures. In Phase 3, deviance no longer exists. We might not be invisible to the government? , but our online activities are usually invisible to those in our geographic community. | | | Conceptualizations of personhood evolve. In Phase 1, out-groups are dehumanized. In Phase 2, personhood is extended to all humans (and sometimes to pets). In Phase 3, physical indicia of humanness are no longer evident, reducing humanness to its cognitive and communicative components. In Phase 3, computer programs that can mimic these components are subjectively indistinguishable. |
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