at OIST, Okinawa, Japan
I've just started to prepare for my talk titled "Embodied cognitive revolution behind the “sapient paradox”"
Sapient Paradox is a question formulated by Colin Renfrew in his 1996 paper, pointing out that there is a big temporal gap between the accomplishment of human evolution in anatomical senses and the manifestation of human cognitive capabilities in civilizations. In fact, human evolution in a biological sense was accomplished some 60,000 years ago (or as long as 200,000 years ago when the Sapiens appeared), but human civilization first appeared 12000-10000 years ago. If there is such a gap, there should be an account on human cognitive capacities that prepared for the formation of early civilization, which involved the development of sedentism, stock rearing, and agriculture. My talk deals with this problem from the perspective of embodied cognition.
See you soon in Okinawa,
S
