Culture Is the Software of Mind
Culture is the software of mind
Culture originally refers to an anthropological term underlying values, beliefs and a code of practice that makes a community what it is. The customs of society, the self-image of its members, the things that make it different from other societies, are its culture.Culture is the collective behavior of people that are part of a society.Culture includes deeply held values, beliefs and assumptions, symbols, heroes, and rituals. Culture is powerfully subjective and reflects the meanings and understandings that are typically attributed to situations, the solutions that can be applied to common problems.
As a human being we have to live together in a society, and a society is organized by various rules which are also known as that society’s culture. The development of culture has a major importance in modern civilization. Different societies have different cultural forces but their purposes are to civilize people and to interact with others. Culture shapes the people’s behavior and the way they think and perform. Sometimes culture also possesses some restriction over various things. People learn various things from their society’s culture. One cultural thing may be prohibited by another culture depending upon religious believes and value. Cultures act as software of mind. Peoples sometimes do something and sometimes keep far away from something which is not allowed in their culture.
A computer can’t operate without some instruction; these instructions are known as computer software. Software instructs the activity and function of computer to get a specific output from inputs. Like computers a person can instruct through his culture. Cultural forces are put into human mind as software which instructs people to do or not to do a certain thing. Culture teaches our behavior, food habit, clothing, education and social structure which are the strength of the modern life.
Our personality is also influenced by various cultural
Culture originally refers to an anthropological term underlying values, beliefs and a code of practice that makes a community what it is. The customs of society, the self-image of its members, the things that make it different from other societies, are its culture.Culture is the collective behavior of people that are part of a society.Culture includes deeply held values, beliefs and assumptions, symbols, heroes, and rituals. Culture is powerfully subjective and reflects the meanings and understandings that are typically attributed to situations, the solutions that can be applied to common problems.
As a human being we have to live together in a society, and a society is organized by various rules which are also known as that society’s culture. The development of culture has a major importance in modern civilization. Different societies have different cultural forces but their purposes are to civilize people and to interact with others. Culture shapes the people’s behavior and the way they think and perform. Sometimes culture also possesses some restriction over various things. People learn various things from their society’s culture. One cultural thing may be prohibited by another culture depending upon religious believes and value. Cultures act as software of mind. Peoples sometimes do something and sometimes keep far away from something which is not allowed in their culture.
A computer can’t operate without some instruction; these instructions are known as computer software. Software instructs the activity and function of computer to get a specific output from inputs. Like computers a person can instruct through his culture. Cultural forces are put into human mind as software which instructs people to do or not to do a certain thing. Culture teaches our behavior, food habit, clothing, education and social structure which are the strength of the modern life.
Our personality is also influenced by various cultural