From: Scott R (jse885@spinn.net)
Date: Sun Aug 10 2003 - 16:58:43 BST
Bo,
> Scott makes the point that intellect did not suddenly emerge around
> 500 BC ...etc. The suddenness can be discussed, I agree with Scott
> about Jaynes' "bicameral" transformation as a forerunner for the S/O,
> this took place around Homer's time and is still "ancient Greece".
> What I find strange with Scott's presentation is the notion that there
> was an intellect that "moved from appearing...etc". Is it the thinking
> ghost again that "moved" from Society into Intellect ...after having
> moved from Biology?
Here is where you need Barfield rather than Jaynes (who was a materialist).
Yes there was, is now, and ever will be a thinking ghost (think the German
Geist, translatable into English as either mind or spirit). Pre-500BC
humanity perceived this ghost in nature and society. We perceive it in, or
as, our intellect.
- Scott
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