Recent content by sourmonkey

I'd say yes. First of all, no one can predict the future of human civilization... at least not yet. History shows that economic centers of human civilization drift from region to region over time. The same is true for power structures. I don't think they'll maintain the same national...

Is it possible that other (if not all) forms of life possesses consciousness? If the most basic function of "mind" serves to differentiate between the "outside" world and the "inner" world of the organism, than all of life might possesses some form of consciousness. We shouldn't be so...

This is a very interesting conversation. Underwater Freestyle wrote: How about homogeneity? Everything is just "another version" of everything else. "B" is another version of "A". The Andromeda galaxy is another version of our Milky Way, our Sun is another version of any star...

Aquamarine: Call me old fashioned, but I don't think the term "race" is a valid qualifier for distinguishing human ethnic groups. If this is true, then your question has no real world answer. Perhaps (nuenke) means genetic lineage, but then again, being that enthocentrism varies across ALL...

Hey all, I'm new to the forum but I'm a student of anthropology and I'd like to offer another perspective. 1- If Cultural Ideology A is ethnocentric, and Cultural Ideology B is also ethnocentric, and this behavior is genetically motivated, how are they genetically different? Does...

Technically, we're all the same people. I should say we're all the same "people." All humans are "almost" genetically identical, er, relativly speaking. Of course there are differences, but in truth, those differences are few. It is only our collective minds that create the cultural...