Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ucsd!nosc!humu!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Thought/Emotion/Feeling Message-ID: <2803@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 12 Dec 88 11:33:09 GMT References: <1154@arctic.nprdc.arpa> Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 16 From article <1154@arctic.nprdc.arpa>, by bickel@nprdc.arpa (Steven Bickel): " Kalihari (spelling?) to collect and store water. These types " of processes have evolved significantly only in the last 10,000 " years, and, have coincided with the development of language, which, " almost all primitive tribes have, and, therefore fit into the ~~~~~~~~~~ Make that all. " farming period concept (last 10,000 years). I should have used " the concept of farming consciousness with more explanation. This dating of the origin of language is, to put it kindly, purely speculative. I see little relationship here to Jaynes' thesis, which is itself just an interesting speculation. Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu