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Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)

New Books in Neuroscience

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What Happened to Us in the Neolithic?

The neolithic was the time when imagination flourished as it has rarely flourished ever since. The hunter gatherers had relationships which were meaningful with not any other human being, but also with the whole of the created order. It was a much less lonely place than the world that we occupy now. With farmin came lots of things which are pretty dreadful. We see epidemic disease for the first time in human populations due to population explosion. But grain are allowed and this creates toxic status and hierarchy. And so what the archaological record sas is that er we became farmers. So sure we've all it, we can live in one compartment for one moment and then live in another compartment

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