Archive for the ‘Social’ Category

4 types of rights

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Just came over interesting OpenCourseWare page about 4 fundamentally different types of rights: claim-rights privileges (liberties, absence of claim-rights) powers (authority rights) immunities (absence of power rights)

Natural limit on community size

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

The Dunbar Number there is a cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships, that this limit is a direct function of relative neocortex size, and that this in turn limits group size ... the limit imposed by neocortical processing ...