Pinker suggests that the ‘mind’ is made of many modules, each honed by aeons of evolution, and shamans may have learned to integrate these modules. If so, shamanic technologies represent the intitial institutionalized practices for this integration, both through shifts in consciousness and community bonding rituals. These practices became codified in the form of myth, ritual and ceremony, providing for social solidarity and specialization
Shamans were both the first programmers and the first computers, operating on themselves and their own minds and nervous systems and those of the ‘people’ (human, animal or otherwise) with whom they interacted with as part of their information ecosystem.
See also: so now you’re a superhero.
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