cv20. One could suppose that animistic thinking arose naturally as a function of language, and vice versa. The ability to generalize arises from the ability to project and detect danger or benefit when one situation is recognized as "similar" to others. Recognition of time-space patterns is common to animals, but acutely developed among humans, who have the capacity of intra-species adjustable communication: i.e. language.
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FN dgh.754. Science and Human Behavior by B.F. Skinner (Macmillan 1953).
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2xz. Mind and Cosmos: Why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false by Thomas Nagel (Oxford 2012).
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wu1. According to Whitehead in Process and Reality -- Corrected Edition (The Free Press 1978, based on the Gifford Lectures, 1927-28), Th...
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cw1. The materialist point of view goes back a long way. In Plato's Phaedo , Socrates denounces it.
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