The concept of representation, people, things.

[george]

I am not having much success with finding research into representation and abstract thinking, but there is more information ready available regarding symbolism. This is a very interesting paper:
http://www.vonsteuben.org/ourpages/a...%20Culture.pdf

http://marxist-theory-of-art.blogspo...2-animals.html

getting "page not found" from the first link.

from the second link youve posted:

Lacking the advantage of intense intervention from a symbol-using species, our own ancestors had to make the leap to using symbols for themselves. It was probably an uneven process, with flashes of symbol use emerging and dying here and there before it finally became a universal human trait. How it might have arisen is the subject of our next post.

we were just discussing this on Davids latest thread:

In the writings of Israel the ability to read is from one of the Fallen Angels, Semjaza and his followers brought things to man like forging iron, currency etc. Semjaza is better known as Lucifer - who got his start in the Book of Enoch.

but somehow, from following your links ive ended up snipe hunting LOL! or is it snark hunting?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snark_%28Lewis_Carroll%29

Im keen to find out what Lewis Carroll was on about with this!


thanks