We must mentally step outside nature to consider things like how the world was created or what lies beyond death. Immaterial minds can do that.
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Berger’s confidence about homo Naledi’s intelligence rankles colleagues but he is as entitled to a documentary for his case as they are to oppose it.
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Our remote ancestors were forging a system for writing down what they knew thousands of years before what we think of as history.
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From the fragments gathered so far, it seems we have no evidence for a history of the human mind, only the history of human technology.
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There is no reason to think Neanderthals were not human in the usual sense except that someone must be the subhuman if Darwinism is true.
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Ancient humans calculated how much time and trouble went into a specific tool, in relation to its use — much as we do today.
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To the extent that the uniquely human part of the mind is immaterial, it won’t have a history any more than the Pythagorean theorem, in itself, does.
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The insight, even back then, was envisioning what needs to be done. That part of the human mind has no history. Finding a way to do it follows.
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How could the insight that the human mind is not material and cannot really die the way the body dies get started? Did it always exist?
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Recently, archeologists came up with an interesting find from 30,000 years ago in what is now Moravia, part of the Czech Republic: Ravens lived among humans. over 30,000 years ago, during the Pavlovian culture, ravens helped themselves to people’s scraps and picked over mammoth carcasses left behind by human hunters. This took place in the region known today as Moravia, in the Czech Republic. Ravens live in human settlements today, of course, with one notable difference: The archeologists from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution noted that “The large number of raven bones found at the sites suggests that the birds, in turn, were a supplementary source of food, and may have become important in Read More ›
Many of us grew up with “Neanderthal!” used as a term of abuse for a stupid person. A 2021 study from the University of Tübingen and others, dusted off at ScienceAlert, paints quite a different picture, in connection with Neanderthals’ manufacture of birch tar. The tar from burnt birch wood can be used as glue, insect repellent, and antiseptic. It can be scraped from a fire naturally or it can be produced in a controlled way. Which method Neanderthals used says something about the development of their culture. The study authors, Patrick Schmidt et al., went to a lot of potentially messy trouble to try to answer the question: Some think of black tar as a happy accident that Neanderthals Read More ›