Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!nprdc!bickel From: bickel@nprdc.arpa (Steven Bickel) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Thought/Emotion/Feeling Message-ID: <1146@arctic.nprdc.arpa> Date: 8 Dec 88 20:16:17 GMT References: <569@epicb.UUCP> Sender: news@nprdc.arpa Reply-To: bickel@nprdc.arpa (Steven Bickel) Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego Lines: 26 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 Systems Engineering Assoc. (619) 553-9306 Naval Personel R & D Center.