Word: ponderously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behaved pretty much like chimps" until around 10,000 B.C., Jaynes said last week in an interview in Boston. The minds of these prehistoric creatures could solve simple problems and think crudely, much like rats performing in a maze, but they lacked the ability to reflect on the past, ponder the present, or imagine the future. Language developed in the eons between 100,000 and 10,000 B.C., but Jaynes insists that this ability--while important for the development of consciousness in the future--emerged independently. Just as somnambulists and people under hypnosis can speak perfectly intelligible English without...
...rechannel erupting inner drives, emphasizing instead the "potentialities" of fuller ego-adaption, attained through a mutually reinforcing and self-fulfilling relation between psychology and culture. "'Leiben und arbeiten' (to love and to work)," Erikson wrote in Childhood and Society, quoting Freud's description of psychological health. "It pays to ponder on this simple formula," Erikson says. "It gets deeper as you think about...
After the team's overwhelming performance, coach Bill McCurdy expressed guarded optimism about the future. "We should be able to handle Yale on Tuesday without any emotional jag, but Northeastern in the GBC's will be the big question to ponder...
...true that there are times when experience can be misread and misused to prevent needed change. Back in the mid-1960s, Lyndon Johnson used to ponder the idea of asking the Red Chinese to talk with him. "I figure that the only way we can ever resolve our problems is if we sit down somewhere together," he mused. "But my diplomats tell me we can't do it now." Richard Nixon chose to ignore that same diplomatic advice. He went to China...
...evidence of the switch from bicamerality to conscious life, Jaynes points to the ancient classics. "There simply is no consciousness in the Iliad, except for a few later accretions," he says. "The heroes do not wonder, ponder or decide. They are pulled around by the voices of the gods. The same is true in the early books of the Bible. Abraham isn't conscious, and Amos isn't either. Consciousness comes later, with Ecclesiastes...