Paleolithic and before - influences if any, on metaphysics?
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Paleolithic and before - influences if any, on metaphysics?
Most especially, idealism and transcendental idealism and how they square with the fossil record which shows that animals, primates and our ancestors, existed before the consciousness of man, ate from existent flora and fauna, died.
I was most influenced by Putnam's statement about monkeys having remorse; to have remorse one has to have the notion of "ought-to-have-done", and if chimps had the notion of what-I-should-have-done, and had the language to express it, they could have remorse.
I understand this isn't a metaphysical statement, but it triggered the connection.
thank you
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