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... means of outlasting the brain that first brought it into existence . At the animal level , brain and mind are virtu- ally one , and over a large portion of man's own existence they remain almost undistinguishable - though , be it noted ...
... means of outlasting the brain that first brought it into existence . At the animal level , brain and mind are virtu- ally one , and over a large portion of man's own existence they remain almost undistinguishable - though , be it noted ...
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... means of maintaining order and establishing human identity : an increase of cultural continuity and predictability , the basis for further creativity , were the proofs of their success . Later these offices were partly taken over by the ...
... means of maintaining order and establishing human identity : an increase of cultural continuity and predictability , the basis for further creativity , were the proofs of their success . Later these offices were partly taken over by the ...
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... means of suitable mechanical apparatus and symbolic abstractions , into a quanti- tative system , free from subjectivity , that does not need further human interpretation . About this assumption only one question remains to be asked ...
... means of suitable mechanical apparatus and symbolic abstractions , into a quanti- tative system , free from subjectivity , that does not need further human interpretation . About this assumption only one question remains to be asked ...
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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