Ah, my beloved Seahawks lose to the Bears in OT. Yes, I am a football fan in my own way. May the entire bird kingdom somehow bother the city of Chicago, and where all Bears fans roam….till next year. The Seahawks need less holy rollies on their team, and more TATUPU POWER!
The following seems more plausible than other ideas on the same nebulous subject…..anything that deflates the very recent historical enthroning of the individual as somehow wholly and magically extricated from it’s dependence on the social, nay, it’s very existence never mind it’s exaggerated preeminence from the social, and not reliant on considering the ‘other’ as fully conditioning in several ways the complex aggregate self… I welcome these conjectures with beaming smile….
It has been suggested by Horace Barlow, Nick Humphrey, David Premack and Marvin Minsky (among others) that consciousness may have evolved primarily in a social context. Minsky speaks of a second parallel mechanism that has evolved in humans to create representations of earlier representations and Humphrey has argued that our ability to introspect may have evolved specifically to construct meaningful models of other peoples minds in order to predict their behavior. “I feel jealous in order to understand what jealousy feels like in someone else” — a short cut to predicting that persons behavior.
