To: unspun
If this theory is to be credible then all humans must"Think"
similarly and equally. That the processes of thought in an Amazonian Indian are on par with that of say Steven Pinker.
It also fails to examine, as an example the former Soviet Union, which broke up into 15 states not geographically (the easy way) but linguistically. The case for the divisions was made by the statement "that we all think alike".
The author may be confusing biological functions with thinking; hunger,thirst,pain,an erection etc.etc.
Surely, some study of brain death would reveal that while
these biological functions remain, all thought has ceased.
57 posted on
05/23/2003 5:48:45 PM PDT by
ijcr
To: ijcr
If this theory is to be credible then all humans must"Think" similarly and equally. That the processes of thought in an Amazonian Indian are on par with that of say Steven Pinker. I didn't really find him positing a theory so "stongly" as this. I found him more engaged in dismantling false theorizations.
But about some things at least, don't most people agree that we all tend to think similarly? ;-`
63 posted on
05/23/2003 5:52:32 PM PDT by
unspun
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