RE: Calculus, Logic, Music and the Human Brain
October 14, 2011 at 8:27 pm
(This post was last modified: October 14, 2011 at 8:55 pm by IATIA.)
There are a bunch of people today that can not do calculus. Most probably could not solve a quadratic equation. This does not mean they have not the potential to do so, but rather a lack of education and/or need.
Ancient man may have had the potential, but without the ground work that was developed over several millennia, they had no basis or understanding.
With the lack of technology (and again, the several millennia of groundwork), they had a rough life with their focus on survival with available tools and knowledge. Anything learned was passed down generations in verbal format which leaves significant 'copy errors' and personal bias. Even collaboration with adjacent tribes would succumb to the problems with verbal continuation.
Picking the time when man was able to learn and solve calculus would probably be beyond any information would could ever glean from archaeology. Maybe if there were DNA samples intact enough for study, but that is highly unlikely.
Some aboriginal tribes today are somewhat as backward as ancient man. Can they do calculus?
Just because they did not, does not mean they could not.
Ancient man may have had the potential, but without the ground work that was developed over several millennia, they had no basis or understanding.
With the lack of technology (and again, the several millennia of groundwork), they had a rough life with their focus on survival with available tools and knowledge. Anything learned was passed down generations in verbal format which leaves significant 'copy errors' and personal bias. Even collaboration with adjacent tribes would succumb to the problems with verbal continuation.
Picking the time when man was able to learn and solve calculus would probably be beyond any information would could ever glean from archaeology. Maybe if there were DNA samples intact enough for study, but that is highly unlikely.
Some aboriginal tribes today are somewhat as backward as ancient man. Can they do calculus?
Just because they did not, does not mean they could not.
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God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy