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1 - How Life Regulation and Feelings Motivate the Cultural Mind

A Neurobiological Account

from Part I - Neurobiological Constraints and Laws of Cognitive Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2022

By
Antonio Damasio  and
Hanna Damasio
Edited by
Olivier Houdé  and
Grégoire Borst
Olivier Houdé
Affiliation:
Université de Paris V
Grégoire Borst
Affiliation:
Université de Paris V
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Summary

Few ideas are in greater need of correction than the common-sense notion that cultures are born exclusively of the human mind and constitute an entire novelty in the history of life. Somewhat distractedly and with the usual high regard that humans reserve for themselves, cultures are frequently thought of as purely human creations. For example, behaviors that result in moral regulation or in social and political organization, as well as activities tied to economical exchanges or the management of illness, are assumed to have been constructed by the grace of standard and explicit human intelligence. The human contemplation of facts, the process of reasoning over those facts, and the consequent knowledge writ large would have been the engines behind the production of cultures. Fine human cognition and sound human reasoning would explain the newness of such phenomena.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Development , pp. 15 - 26
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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