#30- Cultural Selection and Living a Good Life w/ Dr. Dave Palmer

Show Notes

• About the episode

  In this episode, Zach and Caleb discuss cultural selection and how it can be used to make improvements to your life with Dr. Dave Palmer.
  

  Learning Objectives

  1. Synthesize how intentional communal practices (e.g., experimental communities modeled after Walden Two) function as an evolutionary unit of cultural selection that can propagate or replicate. 

  2. Evaluate the structural conflict between institutional employee tracking systems and flexible operant reinforcement arrangements that allow cross-functional job rotation and cooperative labor efficiency.

  3. Formulate systemic behavioral strategies to secure institutional and economic independence by engineering community control over localized financial and material contingencies.

  
  
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  References:
  
  Skinner, B. F. (1984). Selection by consequences. Behavioral and brain sciences, 7(4), 477-481.
  
  Skinner, Burrhus Frederic. "What is wrong with daily life in the western world?." American psychologist 41, no. 5 (1986): 568.

  
  Skinner, B. F. (2005). Walden two. Hackett Publishing.
  
  

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