Something that I have found useful in comprehending the gap between the primitive hunter-gatherer’s thinking and reductionist materialist thinking:
You know New Age/alt. med. puffery, and how it annoys you? That’s because it has a deep strain of vitalism. If you think of the annoying stupidity as the effects of vitalistic thinking, you’ll know what a vitalistic world view looks like. Fundamental everything. Spirits in everything. (And dolphins, for some reason.)
Something that I have found useful in comprehending the gap between the primitive hunter-gatherer’s thinking and reductionist materialist thinking:
You know New Age/alt. med. puffery, and how it annoys you? That’s because it has a deep strain of vitalism. If you think of the annoying stupidity as the effects of vitalistic thinking, you’ll know what a vitalistic world view looks like. Fundamental everything. Spirits in everything. (And dolphins, for some reason.)