Hermione Wrote:
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> cladking Wrote:
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>
> ...
>
> > when they said the king was
> > the pyramid and his tomb was in the sky that's
> > exactly what they meant and it was exactly
> true.
>
> ...
>
> In a metaphorical sense.
>
> You do appreciate the difference between a
> metaphorical statement and a literal statement,
> don't you?
Metaphors are abstractions.
But there are no words for "thought", "belief", taxonomies, reductionism, or abstractions in the Pyramid Texts. There are words we believe to be beliefs but no evidence other than the "book of the dead" that they are representative of beliefs". There is no evidence that the word "neter" was ever used to represent an imaginary consciousness but rather interpretation of the words.,
It's interesting that even one anthropologist agrees with me.
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en.wikipedia.org]
"One of the few mid-20th-century anthropologists to take seriously the idea that early humans were our intellectual equals was Claude Levi-Strauss, who argued that mythological thought, rather than representing some sort of pre-logical haze, is better conceived as a kind of “neolithic science” as sophisticated as our own, just built on different principles. Less well known – but more relevant to the problems we are grappling with here – are some of his early writings on politics."
The difference is he was speculating and using induction to find this but I used deduction and even have some understanding of the science that they commanded. I understand that they didn't even experience thought and needed far more knowledge to function than we do. Just as the eye can see a picture with a few points of reference the human brain can see a picture with a few points of reference when it is operated by natural language. In order to function they needed a command of language that was acquired at a very young age.
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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.