Contributions by Steven Mithen and David Lewis-Williams for the Understanding of the Origin of Images

Authors

  • Ana Elisa Antunes Viviani Comunicação e Semiótica - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24316/prometeica.v0i17.226

Keywords:

cognitive flow, altered states of consciousness, imagination

Abstract

This paper aims to address how the concepts of mind and consciousness treated by Steven Mithen and David Lewis-Williams form the basis for their hypotheses about the origins of images and the emergence of symbolic thinking in Homo sapiens. The authors turn to the sciences of psychology and neuroscience to support them in their investigations. While Steven Mithen's argument is supported by the hypotheses that the human mind operates by cognitive flows and that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, Lewis-Williams's argument rests on the idea that images are originated by altered states of consciousness, condition made possible because the modern human has a high order consciousness.

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Published

2018-08-03

Issue

No. 17 (2018): Prometeica - nº 17 (08/2018 - 01/2019)

Section

Image and Knowledge

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Viviani, A. E. A. (2018). Contributions by Steven Mithen and David Lewis-Williams for the Understanding of the Origin of Images. Prometeica - Journal of Philosophy and Science, 17, 16-29. https://doi.org/10.24316/prometeica.v0i17.226