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...develop language around 100,000 B.C., but lived with virtually no inner life until about 10,000 B.C. Like rats in a maze, humans could solve problems, and had crude abilities to think and remember. But there was no introspection, no independent will, no ability to imagine or ponder the past and future...
...evidence of the switch from bicamerality to conscious life, Jaynes points to the ancient classics. "There simply is no consciousness in the Iliad, except for a few later accretions," he says. "The heroes do not wonder, ponder or decide. They are pulled around by the voices of the gods. The same is true in the early books of the Bible. Abraham isn't conscious, and Amos isn't either. Consciousness comes later, with Ecclesiastes...
Does violence beget violence? Can one lurid crime flashed instantly across TV screens and explored in the pages of newspapers and magazines inspire other crimes? Those were questions for policemen, psychiatrists and journalists to ponder last week as a rash of savagery -a kind of season of rage-erupted across the U.S. Items...
...Year's Day is a good time to ponder one's fortune, since it is not only the first day of the New Year, but also one's birthday according to tradition. A person is considered one year old at birth, becoming two years old on the following New Year's Day. Thus a baby born on New Year's Eve is two years old in the Chinese system although he may only be a day old in the Western system of reckoning...
Yale finally sunk the Crimson when Eli guard Gavin Jackson toed the foul line with 26 seconds reamining. Harvard coach Buddy O'Neil put pressure on Jackson by calling for a break in play to let the Bulldog ponder his attempts. But Jackson was not affected by the brief pause and canned two free-throws to shelve the fresh-men, whose record now rests...