HIST103 Lecture 6: "Civilization and the Mind" 3/7
10 Mar 2017
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3/7/17 lecture: ishmael on agriculture, language spreads (cid:498)civilization and the mind(cid:499, dennett"s challenge. Origins of agriculture our brains have gotten smaller as we took part in agriculture. Building cosmologies: spread of agri-cultures: 10-1kya, *picture on sakai* Ishmael the apes (the common sense ape) perspective: there are two types of people on the planet: leavers and takers. In the entire tree/web of life, a new idea emerged about 10kya that motivates takers. what they need and they leave everything else. What most humans have been for the majority of history: leavers everybody else, including all the other organisms. They take: takers someone who has three specific ideas to live by, takers systematically destroy their competitor"s food to make room for their own. (actively transforming the landscape to destroy the resources that animals need. ) Ishmael believes that there are limits of competition in the community of life; you may compete with others, but you may not wage war.
