out of africa: from whence comes our "minds" the “roots” of humanity?

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Out of Africa: From whence

comes our

"minds"

The “roots” of humanity?


Feelings/Importance

• hate-love relationship with s & t– progress and enslavement

• curiosity

• lack of “knowledge about; above my head

• are there limits; playing God


Spiritual Journeys


Cultural Journeys

• hunting and gathering


Cultural Journeys

• a neolithic revolution


Cultural Journeys

• an agricultural revolution


Cultural Journeys

• an industrial revolution


Intellectual Journeys

• Pre Greek?



• Greek Thought • Platonic- changing nature must be brought to the “ideal”

• Aristotelian - intricate, ordered, unique, purposeful

• Stoicism - gaia and divine

• Epicurean - the physical



• Medieval Thoughts

• Structured

• Willed

• Harmonious

• Static

• Kinship




• Scientific thoughts

• human “uncentered”

• vast

• limitless

• physical

• knowable

• masterable

• mechanical

• material Francis Baconhttp://www.classicallibrary.org/bacon/

http://www.classicallibrary.org/bacon/






• Technological thoughts

• ?





• “academic fields”– genetic engineering– medical technology, environmental chemistry– nuclear energy – social science– political science– computer science– environmental science

• science is authoritative





• S & T are complex• Not very interesting• Difficult to understand• Resistance to explanation• galaxies, quarks,

proteins, ecosystems


Biological Journeys?

• sapiens -1 million years

• erectus - 3 million years

• pre - rest 30 - 35 million years

• ?s


we share 47% of our genes with yeast

- Goodenough 2000


http://www.spiegel.de/sptv/thema/0,1518,219002,00.html



Biological Journeys?

Most important, the Out of Africa model indicates that the human species-and the radical changes it has brought about on land, sea and air - is in fact a very recent phenomenon in the saga of life on earth. Latecomers to the planet, humans are an evolutionary "work in progress," whose final outcome is yet to be determined. William F. Allman

U.S. News & World Report , Sept 16, 1991 v111 n12 p53(8

http://web3.infotrac.galegroup.library.bethel.edu/itw/infomark/532/497/63848729w3/purl=rc1_EAIM_0_A11208972&dyn=11!ar_fmt?sw_aep=clic_bethel

http://web3.infotrac.galegroup.library.bethel.edu/itw/infomark/532/497/63848729w3/purl=rc1_EAIM_0_A11208972&dyn=11!ar_fmt?sw_aep=clic_bethel

http://www.spiegel.de/sptv/thema/0,1518,219002,00.html


Integrated Journeys

• Running with the Buffalo

Peter Mayer, Elements

"Is this not like some great body which is being born - with its limbs, its nervous system, its perceptive organs, its memory - the body in fact of that great living Thing which had to come to fulfill the ambitions aroused in the reflective being by the newly acquired consciousness ?”

Pierre Tielhard de Chardin

"What, in fact, do we see happening in the modern paroxysm? It has been stated over and over again. Through the discovery yesterday of the railway, the motor car and the aeroplane, the physical influence of each man, formerly restricted to a few miles, now extends to hundreds of leagues or more. Better still: thanks to the prodigious biological event represented by the discovery of electromagnetic waves, each individual finds himself henceforth (actively and passively) simultaneously present, over land and sea, in every corner of the earth."

Pierre Tielhard de Chardin


• On to the Noosphere


Conclusions?

• ?


Next week

• What is science and the Scientific Method?

• Does science shape reality?: Models of the Scientific World

• Project and Course Topic Planning Session 2 Project and Course Topic Planning Session

http://www.bethel.edu/%7Ekisrob/hon301k/schedule03.html




out of africa: from whence comes our "minds" the “roots” of humanity?

Documents

spiritual journeys slide

physical slide

authoritative slide

noosphere slide

cultural journeys

biological journeys

integrated journeys

industrial revolution