{"id":309,"date":"2009-02-09T04:53:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T12:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2009-02-09T04:53:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T12:53:34","slug":"evidence-of-ancient-abstract-thinking-or-just-making-shit-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/09\/evidence-of-ancient-abstract-thinking-or-just-making-shit-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence of ancient abstract thinking, or just making shit up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babelsdawn.com\/babels_dawn\/2009\/01\/abstract-thought-predates-homo-sapiens.html#more\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">http:\/\/www.babelsdawn.com\/babels_dawn\/2009\/01\/abstract-thought-predates-homo-sapiens.html#more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">This is a weird one: It&#8217;s pretty awesome that there might be evidence that abstract thought existed before language, and even before the so-called &#8220;modern&#8221; human\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 as far back as 2 million years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">However, when you take a step back, two things stand out to me: First, it&#8217;s been reasonably shown that some other kinds of pre-language primates have shown what could be considered abstract thinking.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>So it wouldn&#8217;t be so unreasonable to think that ancient proto-humans would be able to have the ability, as well.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Second, the author of the blog totally pulled a Law of Fives using Phi (the Golden Mean), starting with putting the oblong around a <em>sketch<\/em> of a stone axe, and the moving on to trying to fit one around his fist, with mixed results.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.babelsdawn.com\/babels_dawn\/2009\/01\/abstract-thought-predates-homo-sapiens.html#more \u00c2\u00a0 This is a weird one: It&#8217;s pretty awesome that there might be evidence that abstract thought existed before language, and even before the so-called &#8220;modern&#8221; human\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 as far back as 2 million years. \u00c2\u00a0 However, when you take a step back, two things stand out to me: First, it&#8217;s been reasonably shown that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/09\/evidence-of-ancient-abstract-thinking-or-just-making-shit-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evidence of ancient abstract thinking, or just making shit up?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,38,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-by-others","category-law-of-fives","category-seeing-is-believing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}