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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"
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The US psychologist Michael
Tomasello believes that human
civilization is so fundamentally different from the societies of other animals
because human cognition, at some point in evolution, became a
"collective", not only individual, process. This was originally a
small difference, but over time it has made a huge difference, because each
generation hands down a "culture" to the next generation. Each
generation can benefit from the experiences (e.g., discoveries and inventions)
of previous generations. And this causes an acceleration of cognitive
evolution. Back to the beginning of the chapter "A History of Consciousness" | Back to the index of all chapters |
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