The Human Mind

When Levi-Stroc mysteriously refers to the human mind, let's be human, as a universal which generates all human culture he seems to be saying that human brains everywhere operate with the same machine code in a binary language. If it is valid at all and I think some extent it is valid then it must follow that if we are looking for universals in human culture as distinct from human language we must make our cross-cultural comparisons at a highly reductionist level. But there is also following Jacobson's model it carried such a reductionist analysis to a much deeper and more generalized level. The recognition that reciprocities of different kinds may express different kinds of relationship there was nothing new about that