Shapes and altered states. Experiences anyone?

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Rockrich R
Rockrich Nov 23, 2005 17:53:40
Replying to tiompan

I agree for one, I'm sure that if you could get into the mind of newly born baby of today & a bronze age kid of the same age, their thoughts & instincts would be pretty much the same, as 5k years in evolutionary terms is nothing. I think its just modern living & the way we're brought up that renders bits of our brains redundant.

S Steve Gray
Steve Gray Nov 24, 2005 10:24:48
Replying to Rockrich

I think that view is widely supported. The big difference is not in the bio-neuro-chemo-whatever nature of the brain, but in the socialisation.

Different things are important to different cultures. Even going back only a few hundred years, it was important to know the lineage of just about any person you ever met -- "I am Stephen, son of Thomas, son of Albert of the house of..." sort of thing. Now, nobody gives a toss.

A different mind-set resulting from different socialisation is what makes it hard to understand ancient cultures, not evolutionary differences.