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... complex computer today . That vast numerical superiority will doubtless diminish with miniaturiza- tion in ... complex structure of man's large brain , un- certainty , unpredictability , counter - adaptability , and creativity ( that is ...
... complex computer today . That vast numerical superiority will doubtless diminish with miniaturiza- tion in ... complex structure of man's large brain , un- certainty , unpredictability , counter - adaptability , and creativity ( that is ...
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... complex living structure , units quickly mobilized in orderly formations to function on particular occasions for particular uses . Every member of the community has access to this linguistic organization and can use it up to the ...
... complex living structure , units quickly mobilized in orderly formations to function on particular occasions for particular uses . Every member of the community has access to this linguistic organization and can use it up to the ...
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... complex social invention with many differ- entiated parts — it was the scene of many other inventions , both functional and , what is at least equally important , meaningful . The public bath , the gymnasium , the theater , the park ...
... complex social invention with many differ- entiated parts — it was the scene of many other inventions , both functional and , what is at least equally important , meaningful . The public bath , the gymnasium , the theater , the park ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancient animal anxiety Aurignacian became beginning Bertrand Gille brain Bronze Age bureaucracy Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization collective command complex consciousness creature cultivation daily destruction divine domestication dream earliest economic effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods human machine hunter hunting images institution interpretation king kingship Kurt Goldstein labor language later Lower Egypt Magdalenian magic Marduk means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once operations organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production pyramid of Djoser rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice Sargon of Akkad sexual significant social speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion took tool-making traits turn village watermill weapons whole words York