Word: reconstructionalism
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...exact series of social contexts that shaped the human mind over the past couple of million years is, of course, lost in the mists of prehistory. In trying to reconstruct the "ancestral environment," evolutionary psychologists analyze the nearest approximations available--the sort of technologically primitive societies that the Una bomber extols. The most prized examples are the various hunter-gatherer societies that anthropologists have studied this century, such as the Ainu of Japan, the !Kung San of southern Africa and the Ache of South America. Also valuable are societies with primitive agriculture in the few cases where--as with some...
...Consciousness," says Antonio Damasio, "is a concept of your own self, something that you reconstruct moment by moment on the basis of the image of your own body, your own autobiography and a sense of your intended future." Missing any one of the essential parts that it's built on diminishes consciousness but does not totally negate it. Damasio has no doubt that Boswell is conscious, though the quality of that consciousness is impossible for anyone else to imagine...
...well. (The Lerner-West public forum is, in fact, organized by the Democratic Socialists of America at Harvard Divinity School.) Socialism itself is the primary error in judgment of both Lerner and West. Because of their lack of faith in our capitalist republic, they find it necessary to reconstruct the entire nation in order to defeat racism and anti-Semitism...
...senior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Grant was admitted to Harvard's Class of 1999 under the Early Action program before her mother's murder came to light. She moved to Cambridge from South Carolina four years ago to attend a probationary program and to reconstruct her life. Before that, she spent six months in a juvenile correctional facility...
...boxes included dildoes that wereattached with screws, " Evers said. " Obviouslythe work was no longer able to be shown. [It wasnecessary] to buy a new dildo and reconstruct thatassembly...