Civilización, culto y escritura en el desarrollo de la mente

Liliana Chaves Castaño; Juan David Piñeres Sus; Jose Luis Olarte Rodríguez

doi:10.17533/udea.rp.v11n2a05

Authors

Liliana Chaves Castaño University of Antioquia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9137-825X
Juan David Piñeres Sus University of Antioquia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1870-4113
Jose Luis Olarte Rodríguez University of Antioquia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6616-4743

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rp.v11n2a05

Keywords:

Neolithic, Worship, Writing, Evolution, Mind.

Abstract

Evolutionary psychology, proposed primarily by Cosmides and Tooby, states that the current human mind has innate, domain-speciﬁc algorithms that specialized in solving the adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors during the Pleistocene. The authors establish that natural selection produced psychological mechanisms in response to various pressures from the environment in which the Homo species evolved. In this discussion paper we propose three arguments aimed at defending the idea that the human mind has undergone changes after the Pleistocene. From the ﬁndings of cognitive archeology and the developments of the Soviet psychology, we propose that: 1) an explanation of the development of the mind is insuﬃcient if it does not consider the active participation of human beings in the modiﬁcation of their environment; 2) external coding systems (e.g., writing) should be considered. Since the Neolithic period, those coding systems go beyond individual and immediate experience and make accumulated historical-social knowledge possible; and 3) the fact that the species Homo sapiens has not changed genetically does not suppose that mental functioning is free of signiﬁcant transformations during the post-Pleistocene period.

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Author Biographies

Liliana Chaves Castaño, University of Antioquia

http://scienti.colciencias.gov.co:8081/cvlac/visualizador/generarCurriculoCv.do?cod_rh=0000558052

Juan David Piñeres Sus, University of Antioquia

https://scienti.minciencias.gov.co/cvlac/visualizador/generarCurriculoCv.do?cod_rh=0000341916

Jose Luis Olarte Rodríguez, University of Antioquia

https://scienti.minciencias.gov.co/cvlac/visualizador/generarCurriculoCv.do?cod_rh=0001581553

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