Naarjuk (Big-Belly), the Giant Child, Master of the Cosmos (Sila): What Does He Give to the Inuit, and What Does He Receive?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Over a hundred years ago, Marcel Mauss devoted his teaching to the Inuit, namely those of Canada, then still hunters and gatherers, animists and semi-nomadic, for whom the dualist cycle of the seasons shaped the social, economic and moral life. He spoke of these people as representing a form of ‘primitive communism’. This nineteenth century utopia fascinated him and provided a counter-model for the rise of individualism and capitalism which dominate the world today, including the Inuit, since the West now has a hold on their bodies (through medicine), their minds (education), their spirituality (through conversion to Christianity and the rejection of shamanism) and their natural resources. Face with the risk of the disintegration of this people (suicide of youths, addiction problems...) and that of its values, this article proposes to invert our gaze and show how Inuit cosmology and thought, far from being irrational, are in fact intuitively and empirically in tune with recent discoveries in neurosciences and astrophysics. The West should inspire itself from their worldview in order to rethink its own societal problems.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".