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From: bickel@nprdc.arpa (Steven Bickel)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Thought/Emotion/Feeling
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Date: 8 Dec 88 20:16:17 GMT
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In article <569@epicb.UUCP> david@epicb.UUCP (David P. Cook) writes:
>> Does Emotion and Feeling come from Thought?  Or the other way around?
>
>In speaking of these items... I assume you mean modern man as opposed to
>early man?
>
>Some recent findings cause "the people who think of such things" to theorize
>that "Thought" (or to be more apt... "Intelligence") stems from mans early
>usage of psycoactive plants.


   Do you have any anthoropological references for this concept or is it 
   some form of drug culture folklore (Carlos Casteneda)?

   From what I have read concerning evolutionary development of
   cognition: intelligence developed because humans discovered that 
   forms of farming were far more productive and life sustaining
   than gathering. Farming required more thought and therefore 
   increases in thought were supported as an evolutionary trend.

   Steve Bickel

          Steve Bickel                          bickel@nprdc.arpa
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