Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings? (2017)

Re:Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings? (2017) by nateburke on Saturday October 20, 2018 @06:23AM (#18262640)

Thank you for bringing this up. I love this book. The thesis is breathtaking. But as you say, nearly impossible to test rigorously :(

I wonder if its plausibility will become more apparent as lifespans increase, allowing the typical adult human to be able to converse with more than just the generation below and above and hence be able to get at least a local estimation of the rate of change of consciousness in real life; vs. having to rely solely on literature as evidence for the mutability of human consciousness.

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Re:Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings? (2017) by fjsolwmv on Saturday October 20, 2018 @01:00PM (#18264160)

We are pretty far off from humans living the thousands of years needed to directly witness the evolution of consciousness species wide. You'd see much more variation by surveying geneticallh remote people alive today.

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