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--- On Sun, 3/29/09, roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> From: roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu>
> Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] invention of the self
> To: "YASMIN DISCUSSIONS" <Yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
> Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009, 7:47 AM
> ramon
>
> thank you so much for the addition of "invention of the
> self" to
> the discussion on artists as inventors !!
>
> it seems to me that the brain is such a "plastic organ"
> that
> indeed many things that we take to be part of innate
> nature
> actually are the result of our interactions with the
> artefacts we
> invent
>
> one of the big mysteries in the history of human beings is
> why
> it took so long to invent written languages= written
> languates are
> a really recent invention in the history of homo sapiens
>
> so much of what i consider to be part of "myself' comes not
> only
> from my interactions with other people and the world, but
> with the
> artefacts we build= what was it like to be a human being
> before
> written language and the visual arts were invented ?
>
> --
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