Hi TOK List,

 

I thought I would share some interesting articles and podcasts I have come across in the past few days.

 

Here is an interesting article on Homo naledi, who is a much smaller species of homo that lived for a long time (up until about 300,000 years ago) and had much smaller brains but apparently complicated mental behavioral patterns.

 

Here is an interesting Jim Rutt podcast with Antonio Damasio on the evolution of feeling and knowing. Much like UTOK’s model of Mind2, Damasio argues that “feelings” are the base of sentience, and they connect to the interoceptive states of the body and indicate basic health, satisfaction or disorder and orient to approach or avoid. Then the core self emerges out of that, and then a more extended self and finally a justifying/interpretive Culture-Person ego (although, as he notes in the program, Damasio has done less thinking about the ego/persona than core consciousness).

 

Finally, for abstract philosopher theory types, here is a great conversation on the integral stage between Layman Pascal and Cadell Last on the idea of self-relating negation.

 

Best,

Gregg

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