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Posted: 30 Oct 2022

Taken: 14 Oct 2021

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 Dinesh
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How wonderful it would be to discover where and when the robust self came to mind and began generating the biological revolution called Culture. But in spite of the ongoing research efforts of those who interpret and date the human records that have survived time, we are not able to answer such questions. It is certain that the self matured slowly and gradually but unevenly, and that the process was taking place in several parts of the world, not necessarily at the same time. Still, it is known that our most direct human ancestors were walking the earth about 200,000 years ago, and that around 30,000 years ago humans were producing cave painting, sculptures, rock carvings, metal castings, and jewellry, and possibly making music. The proposed date for the Chauvet cave, in Ardeche, is 32,000 years ago, and by 17,000 years ago the Lascaux cave was already a Sistine Chapel of sorts, with hundreds of complex paintings and thousands of carvings, in a complex mixture of figures and abstract signs. A mind capable of symbolic processing was obviously at work there. The exact relation between the emergency of language and the explosion of artistic expression and sophisticated toolmaking that distinguishes ‘Homo sapiens’ is not known. But we do know that for tens of thousands of years humans had engaged in burials, elaborating enough to require special treatment of the deal and the equivalent of tombstones. It is difficult to imagine how such behaviors would have occurred in the absence of an explicit concern for life, a first stab at interpreting life and assigning it value, emotional of course, but intellectual as well. And it is inconceivable that concern or interpretation could arise in the absence of a robust self. ` Page 306
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 J.Garcia
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António Damásio
I appreciate his work and books, Dinesh
19 months ago. Edited 19 months ago.
Dinesh club has replied to J.Garcia club
Thanks you, he is one of my favorite

SELF COMES TO MIND
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