From f71a9573023e0c209ca3e55adfc57493574f972e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sdbs Terra Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 14:08:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Automatic update, changed: --- pages/las.quotes.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pages/las.quotes.md b/pages/las.quotes.md index 35058c1..bcf04dd 100644 --- a/pages/las.quotes.md +++ b/pages/las.quotes.md @@ -103,4 +103,4 @@ Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, 476. ## Edward O. Wilson ### Conscience #### snakes -Snakes and dream serpents provide an example of how agents ofnature can be translated into the symbols of culture. For hundreds of thousands of years, time enough for genetic changes in the brain to program the algorithms of prepared learning, poisonous snakes havebeen a significant source of injury and death to human beings. The re-sponse to the threat is not simply to avoid it, in the way that certain berries are recognized as poisonous through painful trial and error, but to feel the kind of apprehension and morbid fascination displayed in the presence of snakes by the nonhuman primates. The snake image also attracts many extraneous details that are purely learned, and as a result the intense emotion it evokes enriches cultures around theworld. The tendency of the serpent to appear suddenly in trances and dreams, its sinuous form, and its power and mystery are logical ingredi-ents of myth and religion. \ No newline at end of file +Snakes and dream serpents provide an example of how agents ofnature can be translated into the symbols of culture. For hundreds of thousands of years, time enough for genetic changes in the brain to program the algorithms of prepared learning, poisonous snakes have been a significant source of injury and death to human beings. The re-sponse to the threat is not simply to avoid it, in the way that certain berries are recognized as poisonous through painful trial and error, but to feel the kind of apprehension and morbid fascination displayed in the presence of snakes by the nonhuman primates. The snake image also attracts many extraneous details that are purely learned, and as a result the intense emotion it evokes enriches cultures around theworld. The tendency of the serpent to appear suddenly in trances and dreams, its sinuous form, and its power and mystery are logical ingredi-ents of myth and religion. \ No newline at end of file