Mind and Vision: Social Evolution and the Origins of the Political
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Data
2016Autor
Skarzynski, Ryszard
Wajzer, Mateusz
Staniucha, Tymoteusz
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During the transition from family to state organizations, that is
from structures built upon the cooperation of a few relatives to organizations
controlling the behaviour of thousands and millions of
genetically distant individuals, the unification of people around
ideas processed by the mind became increasingly more important.
A large part of the mechanisms that control these processes has
been beyond scientists’ interests. Meanwhile, the results that are
available from archaeological research show that political control
of the masses by specialized organization began to develop around
6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia and Egypt, and not only because
of the increasing complexity of Neolithic agricultural societies.
It was incredibly important that cooperating individuals shared visions
of universal order. The results of modern neuroscientific research
show that, ultimately, the emergence of political phenomena
and their development were determined by the specific mental abilities
of Homo sapiens, which were unprecedented at such a level of
development or even absent in other species. In this text the authors
analyze the most significant of them, explain how political mobilization
was initiated and how many other political phenomena evolved
to define the functioning of the human species today.
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