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Personally, I'm not morally relativist. I was raised by parents who were morally strict, if not morally absolutist. And the church I went to as I grew up, although highly liberal, had strong elements of moral absolutism. All of that had a major impact on the development of my psyche. At the same tim...

Gingko - You bring up a good angle: "I think Jaynes really needs to say that what is "missing" from human consciousness in the early stages was higher level concepts. I don't think they were actually missing they just weren't developed very well. If you asked a cave man what is the si...

I thought the conclusion lacked depth. "Anyone who studies deeply the earliest civilizations must come to realize that far more unites us with them than differentiates us. These ancestors of ours, only a few hundred generations past, who first figured out how to plant and harvest crops, domesti...