Apart from listening to old blues music the other thing that comes closest to a ‘religious experience’ I have is dropping into the African Savanna and looking over at the jungle maybe while considering the journey to the bipedal thing etc.

Of course that’s a very different idea of ‘religious experience’ at work there.

On the subject of ancestral environments/environments of evolutionary adaptation, by whatever name, how ‘friendly’ is the modern mind, and modern culture, toward such things?

transition said:

Apart from listening to old blues music the other thing that comes closest to a ‘religious experience’ I have is dropping into the African Savanna and looking over at the jungle maybe while considering the journey to the bipedal thing etc.

Of course that’s a very different idea of ‘religious experience’ at work there.

On the subject of ancestral environments/environments of evolutionary adaptation, by whatever name, how ‘friendly’ is the modern mind, and modern culture, toward such things?

It depends which particular modern mind we are talking about. There are over 7 billion of them.

Can’t see much jungle from savanna-lands.

Michael V said:

Can’t see much jungle from savanna-lands.

True.
The lion does not sleep in the mighty jungle.

Michael V said:

Can’t see much jungle from savanna-lands.

Didn’t the rise of H Sapiens occur mainly on the plains?

Didn’t the rise of H Sapiens occur mainly on the plains?

yeah, i think HS mostly reigned there.

ChrispenEvan said:

Didn’t the rise of H Sapiens occur mainly on the plains?

yeah, i think HS mostly reigned there.

So the reign of S’piens occurred mainly on the plains.

I think we’re getting there.

The Rev Dodgson said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Didn’t the rise of H Sapiens occur mainly on the plains?

yeah, i think HS mostly reigned there.

So the reign of S’piens occurred mainly on the plains.

I think we’re getting there.

TRD knows where we are going?

The Rev Dodgson said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Didn’t the rise of H Sapiens occur mainly on the plains?

yeah, i think HS mostly reigned there.

So the reign of S’piens occurred mainly on the plains.

I think we’re getting there.

With apologies to Prof Henry Higgins.

>It depends which particular modern mind we are talking about. There are over 7 billion of them.

Indeed.

‘Jungle’ were used in similar sense as ‘dropping into the savanna’.

>..There are over 7 billion of them.

Makes for quite a social force with something of a, maybe ‘progressive’ trajectory, I suppose. Global village and all too, you know.

I enjoy a bit of time out, sometimes I just drop into the savanna, imagine it, looking around, faced with the task of finding a feed, maintaining some shelter, keeping near a source of water, watching the weather each day and calling on experience regards that. Family back at camp.

No TV you know. No Laws, well certainly laws of physics, forces of nature, even within.

Not sure it’s possible to consider an EEA without considering a human nature. Not even sure sense can be made of a human nature without reference to an EEA. You know did the challenges faced by our ancestors shape our cognitive tools. I think so.

Do you ever drop into the savanna, Rev, or find yourself reproducing or replicating aspects of it in your near environments. Aesthetics maybe, a garden, whatever.

Unless there’s something I’ve forgotten, it’s been nearly 12 years since I dropped into the savanna.

>Unless there’s something I’ve forgotten, it’s been nearly 12 years since I dropped into the savanna.

As in been to Africa?