Laurels and Shame: The Brutal Ethos of the Original Olympics
original Olympic Games
original Olympic Games
Our complex communication and understanding depend on our uniquely evolved cooperative interactions.
Because these newly acquired traits all enhance the capacity of this burgeoning organism to survive, it is transformed into a subject with the intention to survive, and in the process has achieved the rudiments of mind.
cellphone users: push start button below Emerging research using ancient DNA techniques reveals that Neanderthals tended towards inbreeding and static social structures, as shown by genetic traces of close-relative mating in a Neanderthal woman and thirteen other individuals (Prüfer et al., 2017; Skov et al., 2022). In stark contrast, the genomes of Homo sapiens from …
In animal communication natural selection favors callers who vocalize to affect [i.e. manipulate] the behavior of listeners and listeners who [are selected to] acquire information from vocalizations. . . . Whereas signalers may vocalize to change a listener’s behavior, they do not call to inform others. Listeners acquire information from signalers who do not, in …
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Charles Darwin: “They are ornamented by all sorts of combs, wattles, protuberances, horns, air-distended sacs, topknots, naked shafts, plumes, and lengthened feathers gracefully springing from all parts of the body.”
We humans hold the extraordinary power of reflective thought, gifted to us by the dual nature of our consciousness. One mind, a collective legacy from our hominin ancestors, and the other, an individual mind that has evolved uniquely with our own species. Cellphone users: push start button
Consciousness: I am life that wants to live in the midst of life that wants to live.
I can feel it as movement: the flowing veins around the sturdy, striving core, the sucking of the roots, the breathing of the leaves, the infinite commerce with earth and air—and the growing itself in its darkness . . . But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate …
I just attended my 60th Reunion at Yale, and heard 2 discussions by Professor Timothy Snyder, author of “On Tyranny” and “On Freedom.” He stated: The Only Defense against Tyranny is Truth Cellphones: push start button below Also true: There is no Freedom without Justice, But Justice Merely Makes Freedom Possible
This blog maintains that upright posture is the sine qua non human trait because: 1) humanity is defined by a shift to collective functioning; 2) collective function requires a “public” communication system to coordinate the behavior of individuals; and 3) upright posture enabled the face-and-upper-body to become the instruments of the simultaneous-and-continuous communication that is …
The species of our Genus Homo eventually became predominant hunters because they refined instincts for justice as an “immune system” against individual dominance, which is a pathology for organic teamwork. Modern hunter-gatherers are egalitarian (Pringle, 2014), and justice (punishing dominance) has been observed in far-flung hunter-gatherers,not influenced by wealth-creating agricultural practices (Boehm, 1999). There have been …
In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity in which David Graeber and David Wengrow assemble a vast array of archeological evidence from prehistory, much of it recently discovered, and interpret it in a wholly original way. The book, published in 2022, offers an alternative to the widely accepted Rousseauian narrative that, about …
Sensitize yourself to the gracefulness in their manner that relentlessly draws all of us together to make us vulnerable to this pestilence.
The same experiences of mental illness stigmatized through the ages become ancient beacons illuminating a fresh and uplifting vision of Who We Are.
TIGER WHAT ME WORRY? POWER POUT
The general pathological mechanism of mental illness can be described as a self-reinforcing feedback loop. On the Fourth of July, the politician gets up on the podium and tries to begin his speech. Suddenly there is a piercing squeal from the speakers, and, as he speaks, it only gets worse. Very simply, the sound of …