> On Oct 19, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Edwina Taborsky <tabor...@primus.ca> wrote: > > "To me the big issue were common structures in the environment privileging > certain interpretations making either diffusion or common mind unnecessary. > (Much like certain structures evolve independently in nature due to the > environment)" > > EDWINA: - Agree up to a point. That is, I agree with the 'common structures > in the envt privileging certain interpretations'...and diffusion is > unnecessary (and often impossible due to continental isolation)...but..I > think that 'common mind' is a reality. Otherwise, there could be multipe > interpretations. That is, I don't see the human behaviour as entirely > dependent on the envt; rather, the human behaviour is based on being logical > adaptations to environmental realities. I insert that 'logical adaptation'. > > So, it is interesting for example to see that populations that were > agricultural economies, that relied on irrigation to bring water to crops, > developed large populations AND also, some form of mnemonic memory > technology (some form of symbolic script or technique) to keep records. This > was not emergent via diffusion (India, China, Egypt, Aztec, Inca)...Also, all > developed a hierarchical authority and 'god-kings' infrastructure....
I think it depends upon what we mean by common mind. Clearly there are common biological components to the brain which would suggest a common bias to the mind. I think psychologists and clinicians in the classic structuralist period went well beyond that though. Think Jung for instance. Admittedly a lot of psycho-analysis was complete nonsense so that’s not surprising. But I fully agree we can’t adopt a blank slate myth where all that matters is the environment. I should have made that more explicit. I’m skeptical that means the sorts of things structuralism dealt with in treating the mind as literature were correct.
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