Where does thought come from? was Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #4706

[Joe R. Golowka]

> kelley wrote:
> > 
> >  ritual is bound up with language and is
> 
> There you go again. My point is that ritual _preceded_ language,
> probably by several hundred thousand years.

How do you know that?  Define "ritual".


> Both in individual life and in the life of the species the hypothetical
> first thought has to be preceded by motion, by action, by social being.

Why?