Re: The Creation of the "Mind" of Mankind.


Kermit wrote:
dlham@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The history of Mankind can be traced from the time of its
transformation, when it received a new, powerful brain around forty to
fifty thousand years ago. The Homo Sapiens' physical body had evolved
through the geological ages but its "Mind" was created fairly recently
(geologically speaking). This final evolution of the brain is what made
us human. Our body is that of an rather ordinary animal but our "Mind"
is what separates human beings from the rest of the animal world.

It was a worldwide event - no matter where the tribes of the Homo
Sapiens had wandered, their brains suddenly evolved the final vital
cells that enabled them to have this Special Gift, a powerful "Mind"
capable of creative imagination. This is when the Homo Sapiens species
was transformed into the "Homo Imaginative Sapiens". This is the time
when the "MIND" of Mankind was created.

This is the time when anthroplogical evidence indicates mankind's
tremendous new creative power began to cause strange - wondrous -
things to began happening on our tiny planet. Beautiful new tools,
paintings and other artifacts began to be created. Words and languages
were invented. Storytelling began. With human imagination - Mankind
began its relentless progress through the ages.

Don Hamilton
http://novan.com/art3mind.htm

Nope. Our braincase shows pretty steady development over the last
several million years.

That is true. The physical development of the brain and our body
evolved over a very long time.

You are perhaps thinking of the explosion of technology that began to
pickup steam then.

This technology is about the only evidence we have of the mysterious
event that apparently occured around 40 to 50K years ago. Suddenly
these imaginative trinkets and weapons and paintings began to appear -
nothing like this ever happened on the planet before this time. The
Neandertals had some very crude tools that enabled them to survive but
that is about all.

Most likely it was a result of population density,
and perhaps the appearance of modern language. Obviously we had to be
as smart as we are now to talk as well as we do; it's not clear how
long we had a modern brain before we had modern languages. As far as we
can tell, we were modern human a good 150,000 years ago.

I call the modern humans before they became imaginative "humanoids".
Physically they were modern humans in every way but they lacked the
mind power of the imaginative modern humans.

In any event, we are not that much different in inate ability than the
chimp. That little bit matters, certainly.

Modern Humans are very different then chimps, they are also different
then Neandertals as well as the "humanoids". It is those final brain
cells that were the watershed development that catapulted modern man
into being the creative genius that he became. Was this final episode a
phase of a natural evolution or was it a revolutionary creation?
(Maybe the bible is not so far off. Adam and Eve may represent the
first imaginative modern humans. They were created thousands of years
ago, not millions of years ago, when they received a creative
imagination.)

Applying increasing heat to
a pile of paper shows a dramatic change when the applied temperature
reaches 451 Farenheit. But it's not all that much hotter than 431 F.

That is a pretty good analogy except - if you apply 351 F to paper long
enough it will burst into flame. Chimps show no sign of progressing no
matter how long they exist.

Same with us. We got smarter and smarter (as did other some other
species), but we reached a critical mass of something else (the
intelligence was necessary, but not sufficient).

No other species has ever progressed like the imaginative modern
humans.

Once we developed writing we were off and running.

I contend it was only after we became imaginative that we began to
invent meaningful vocal word sounds (especially abstract idea words) -
writing came thousands of years later.

Best Regards, Don Hamilton

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