Sujet : Re: Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge through social learning around 600,000 years ago
De : jtem01 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (JTEM)
Groupes : sci.anthropology.paleoDate : 02. Jul 2024, 23:04:04
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Mario Petrinovic wrote:
Don't you say? Cows cannot. Gee, aren't we something? Cows cannot open the door, how stupid they are. Cows also cannot turn on the tv set. Gee, we are such a geniuses, we can press the button, gee we are god-like.
You're right. We are. We can create.
We can envision something that does not exist. We can stylize,
embellish... imagine.
We can.
At some point a VERY long time ago humans stopped picking up
rocks they could use as "Tools" and started fashioning rocks
that lacked the desired properties into rocks that had them.
Later still...
Humans moved beyond nature. No longer did our ancestors hunt
for the perfect stone, no longer did our ancestors turn
imperfect stones into perfect ones, they began to fashion items
which could not be found in nature no matter where they looked,
or for how long.
They conceptualized.
And that skill wasn't limited to rocks. They could conceptualize
things that they were totally incapable of producing or finding,
like spirits.
And yes, they made art.
Humans are creators.
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