From: phyllis bergiel (neilfl@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 04:03:07 BST
Hi Paul,
I'm responding to your post because you seem to be spearheading and
organizing the topic. Quite well too!
So, 3 points:
1) I'm not sure how we got from living being to human being. Seems to me
that living beings are able to respond to dynamic quality. Esp. if we
perceive dynamic quality as art in some form as Sam has claimed in his
eudamonia essay. I'm not claiming intellectual understanding for them, but
can't some animals respond to DQ. Could that be how those that did became
social animals and thus more biologically successful? Horses, wolves,
elephants? And couldn't we say that those animals which became domesticated
were responding to DQ? Even today, it seems that those that are
domesticated enjoy a "better" life?
2) If anyone has time for a fun "anthropological fiction" read, may I
suggest Jean Auel's Earth's Children series. I'm not suggesting this as a
scholarlly read about human development, but the aspects of how humans added
to their knowledge base is interesting and her speculations on how primitive
man coped with new situations has some possibilities for ways to see DQ.
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> 3)Another post said something about technology as human evolution - if we
think of it as an expansion of human brain storage capacity, Hmmm....
Phyllis
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