Mind into matter

• Autores: Lambros Malafouris
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2933, 2013, págs. 28-29
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Malafouris talks about the study of human mind. There is an abundance of evidence, ranging from earliest prehistory to the present, to testify that things, as well as neurons, participate in human cognitive life. From the viewpoint of archaeology, it is clear that stone objects, body ornaments, engravings, clay tokens and writing systems play an active role in human evolution and the making of the human mind. What is outside the head may not necessarily be outside the mind. It is easy to see how the mind and the brain became equated. Most of what people know about the human mind has been uncovered through isolating people from the material culture they are usually surrounded by in order to study them.