Shared mentality (was Re: The substance of the self)

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Fri Mar 31 14:02:40 PST 2000


Don't we share about 20 to 30% of our genes with cockroaches?

Dace wrote:


> Have you noticed that all of us humans have roughly similar bodies? Why
> would the mind be any different? The reason we have the same bodies is that
> we share the same evolutionary history. This applies equally to the mind,
> which attained roughly its present state by 100,000 years ago. By then, we
> had a general, abstract intelligence based on language, applied equally to
> the social and natural worlds. All the differences we've accumulated since
> then, both bodily and mental, are shallow compared to our similarities.

-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929

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