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PeterH

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Re: Hardwired

Mar 09, 2006, 14:28

Yes of course. I gave a simple answere to a simple question. If the question was rephrased as "What was culturally (ie spiritual, aesthetic, religious, status, territorial) most important to rock art carvers or megaltlith builders? Then a different and very complex answer might emerge. As Littlestone suggests, that might indeed lead us to a better understanding of the intention, meaning and purpose of the creators and architects. As it is, we cannot but help view what has been produced through the glass darkly of our own 20th century, western, acquired perceptions. Not only do we view things conditionally, but our interpretation is even more conditioned by our culture, values, art and beliefs.
Hard wiring is what we have in common with all humans of all times, but that is overlaid and distorted by nurture. (ie conditioning) You want an example? Look at native Australian bark painting. Do you see what the artist sees? Show Constable's "Haywain" to that same native Australian. Does he see what you see? Yes - he will, but only if he went to a western style school and has been educated (ie conditioned). Go back in the Tardis and show the Haywain to Palaeolithic man - what would he see?

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