The problem here is that the emphasis on intelligence has marginalized the importance of the full range of human consciousness in human behavior. Intelligence is what researchers use when they study human origins and all other puzzles of science. Whilst they allow intuition and unexplained flashes of insight a role in the solving of scientific problems, ideas so acquired must, they rightly insist, be subjected to rational evaluation. As a result of this essentially Western view, one that explains the invention of the radio and makes space travel possible, they regard rational intelligence, as they themselves experience it, as the defining characteristic of human beings. They therefore explain everything that early people achieved in terms of evolving intelligence and rationality- of becoming brighter and smarter. As they see it, early people were becoming more and more like Western scientists. David Lewis-Williams The Mind in the Cave Consciousness and the Beginning of Art
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 03:00:13 +0000
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