On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 04:30:11PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > I agree. I guess in our local and sharable past, humans reached > loebianity 200,000 years ago.
I'm not sure why you say 200Kya, other than it being the origin of our species. There is a fair bit of evidence that something significant happened to human brain function around 40,000 years ago (see Steven Mithen's "Prehistory of the Mind"). There was an explosion of representational art that occurred around that time. On the other hand, there is also evidence that other apes (Chimpanzees, a Gorilla, the Gibbon and so on) are capable of self awareness so maybe Loebianity arose 7-8 Mya. Cheers -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) Mathematics 0425 253119 (") UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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