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Mental Proliferation, with Isabela Granic

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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The Proliferation of Minds in the Late Bronze Age

The ability to externalize and socially come to a consensus about aspects of the self or aspects of the world and self in combination is just starting to emerge during this period. I don't think it's the case that cultural proliferation starts there right because you have these tool sets that get proliferated even between different homo species. What seems to be new is the ability to proliferate within a single mind but that's probably older so I'm guessing that's many thousands of years old at least if not much older.

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