@ChristianHummeluhr So my question is, ... what to do when a certain point of analysis (e.g. writing a question on Stack Exchange) has several higher level motives.
What do you mean by "overarching objects like survival"? I don't think AT treats survival any different from, say, a cultural goal like learning to drive.
E.g. intellectual development, ... or 'survival' ... since intellectual development is part of survival, ... to e.g. get money.
Is the object in that case 'survival' or 'intellectual development'?
And what does that say about the actions?
@ChristianHummeluhr Yeah .. but why are you learning to drive? Because you live in a society where you need to be able to go from point A to B. ... why? Etc ... you can always imagine higher level motives no?
That is ambiguous, but it's because you're looking at a tapestry with your nose jammed up against it, figuratively speaking. :v
"The basic assumptions of activity theory are the same as those underlying the socio-cultural perspective in general: namely, the assumptions of the social nature of human mind and inseparability of human mind and activity."
Much like EPs need to define an ontology of affordances that define behavior for specific organisms within a specific environment before anything they say makes any sense, ATs need to define an ontology of motives within a specific socio-cultural context.
You can pick and choose from the objectively existing objects.
You're probably better qualified than I am to say whether ATs ever came up with a way to ACTUALLY identify objects or formalize a socio-cultural context, though, but that's conceptually what would need to happen for it not to be ambiguous.
I think you're right about that for all intents and purposes, maybe I should have gone there. Candidly speaking, the reading I did of AT for this struck me as a fairly generic systems theory/cybernetics-inspired 70's theory that makes good conceptual sense, but didn't have tools like dynamical systems theory to formalize its concepts well enough.
@ChristianHummeluhr I was at a concert (The Subways) in Christiania recently, and this arrogant German jumped on stage after the lead singer mentioned Danish sausages, to point out, that all Danish sausages are sjeit compared to German ones.
@ChristianHummeluhr The average Dane doesn't seem to mind taking beer advice from a Belgian. ;p
Actually gave my supervisor a beer basket for his birthday once (including Danish local brews, and obviously Belgian ones). It took him a year or so to finish. :)
@ChristianHummeluhr Still, I prefer the English 'non-strong-ale' tradition over all the types of silly flavored or unbalanced increased alcohol pilsners (elephant beer, Royal Blue) Denmark has.
@ChristianHummeluhr Sure .. those are the plain pilsners of which you can find the like in every country. No need to export Pilsner (except Pilsner Urquell maybe, that is golden :) ).
I actually prefer Carlsberg over Tuborg ... mainly because it generally is served in bars that actually take care of their draft beer. Cold enough, clean tubes.
Tuborg often has insufficient fizz and too warm on draft.
Hm, I never thought about that, but now that you mention it, maybe Tuborg bars do tend to have worse equipment. It probably doesn't help that Carlsberg bought Tuborg out. >:|
I basically only drink draft or glass bottle beers because canned beers are just generally flat and weird tasting.
Danish beers are generally much less flavorful than Belgian beers are, but that's because they originate from recipes that were essentially intended to replace water.
New question: what areas of the brain are active when Europeans are discussing sausages and beer? and why are they the same areas that are active when they discuss love?
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