Comments on: Ancient “Urban Myths” http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/19/ancient-urban-myths/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:19:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/19/ancient-urban-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-6255 Anonymous Thu, 22 Sep 2005 03:21:08 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/19/ancient-urban-myths/#comment-6255 <blockquote>question: what are our large brains for? crazy speculation? detecting crazy speculation? </blockquote> Although I like the speculation idea, I'd rather ask: Why are our brains the size they are? (Large being a relative concept and there being such variety in actual size.) I'm seriously tempted to take the Silesian approach and say "The rose is without why". But "just because" never does much for a discussion, so I'll say : to accommodate the imagination and the accumulation of memories and lived experience.

question: what are our large brains for?

crazy speculation? detecting crazy speculation?

Although I like the speculation idea, I’d rather ask: Why are our brains the size they are? (Large being a relative concept and there being such variety in actual size.)

I’m seriously tempted to take the Silesian approach and say “The rose is without why”. But “just because” never does much for a discussion, so I’ll say : to accommodate the imagination and the accumulation of memories and lived experience.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/19/ancient-urban-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-6223 Anonymous Wed, 21 Sep 2005 02:04:09 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/19/ancient-urban-myths/#comment-6223 <blockquote>Isn’t the empirical realm just wonderous?</blockquote> yes it is. from your link: <blockquote>"The whole idea that you need a particular brain size to do anything intelligent is completely blown away by this find," Dr Gee commented.</blockquote> question: what are our large brains for? crazy speculation? detecting crazy speculation?

Isn’t the empirical realm just wonderous?

yes it is. from your link:

“The whole idea that you need a particular brain size to do anything intelligent is completely blown away by this find,” Dr Gee commented.

question: what are our large brains for?

crazy speculation? detecting crazy speculation?

]]> By: Whizz Click http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/19/ancient-urban-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-6214 Whizz Click Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:21:31 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/19/ancient-urban-myths/#comment-6214 <blockquote>"If the amount of people who today grudgingly admit to experiencing strange entities firsthand is anything to go by, then in all likelihood, people back in the “old days” were also experiencing <em>something</em> which formed the basis of these folklore accounts." </blockquote> Yes. They were experiencing/encountering Homo Floresiensis (and/or her cousins)! Isn't the empirical realm just wonderous? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3948165.stm

“If the amount of people who today grudgingly admit to experiencing strange entities firsthand is anything to go by, then in all likelihood, people back in the “old days” were also experiencing something which formed the basis of these folklore accounts.”

Yes. They were experiencing/encountering Homo Floresiensis (and/or her cousins)! Isn’t the empirical realm just wonderous?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3948165.stm

]]> By: rev max http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/19/ancient-urban-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-6210 rev max Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:15:00 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/19/ancient-urban-myths/#comment-6210 <blockquote>I wish that he went the route of saying that our minds are naturally polytheistic, and that we at some point made this monotheistically organized around the ego.</blockquote> FUck thats an amazing point

I wish that he went the route of saying that our minds are naturally polytheistic, and that we at some point made this monotheistically organized around the ego.

FUck thats an amazing point

]]> By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/19/ancient-urban-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-6205 Tim Boucher Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:28:59 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/19/ancient-urban-myths/#comment-6205 Yeah thats a cool book. I wish that he went the route of saying that our minds are naturally polytheistic, and that we at some point made this monotheistically organized around the ego. It seems like a more realistic explanation to me than that its a strictly biological brain hemisphere issue. Yeah thats a cool book. I wish that he went the route of saying that our minds are naturally polytheistic, and that we at some point made this monotheistically organized around the ego. It seems like a more realistic explanation to me than that its a strictly biological brain hemisphere issue.

]]> By: Rev max http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/19/ancient-urban-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-6198 Rev max Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:58:55 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/19/ancient-urban-myths/#comment-6198 its like that jukian jaynes book about the breakdown of the bicameral mind. We lost the ability to hear the gods, to see their messengers. We are impoverished for this loss. But they are still all around us. its like that jukian jaynes book about the breakdown of the bicameral mind. We lost the ability to hear the gods, to see their messengers. We are impoverished for this loss. But they are still all around us.

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