The narcissism of anthro-centrism is endless, isn't it?

They're still phrasing some of this stuff as-if it's doubtful, WHILE giving multi-millenia times between the artwork was created, vs when homo-sapiens appeared..

1 item they list is over 70-k years old..

There should be ZERO doubt.

There should have been zero doubt once radio-isotope dating put even ONE "black swan" on the map.

A woman pointed-out in New Scientis, decades ago, that the Neanderthals had 1 significant disadvantage, compared with us: worse brain-cooling.

Given 10s of millenia, that could well be a natural-selection force-to-be-recon'd-with..

Other than that, I don't think they were at any obvious-to-us-now disadvantage, given that the artwork seems equally-advanced, & that is something that takes mental capability

( work-through Betty Edwards' "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the 4th Definitive Edition", to experience for yourself what the sentience-shift feels-like, when one gets out from education-pushed language/reductionism mode into wholistic mode..

I'm autistic, so it didn't take a few days to reach that, it took 3 years, before my 1st experience of the sentience-shift.

It's real.

The horrid scrawlings in New Scientist Magazine were done by somebody who'd never experienced it in their entire adult-life.

Here's a before-that-book's-training / after-that-book's-training, with the book's author, in her "killer class", gallery, of some of her students: see the mind-healing in the expressions of these people: https://www.drawright.com/before-after )

The egotism of our view won't die, though: "God revolves around Man", "The universe of God revolves around the world of Man", "only we have souls", "only we ever had human-sentience", "only we inhabit the galaxy/universe", on & on & on..

( all of the "only OUR religion is valid, in God's eyes" narcissism by lots of different populations also goes in that same bin, obviously )

some day, some evidence is going to poke our racial-ego in the eye, with a "pointed stick" of evidence, and it may well spark global rioting, given the ideological distortion our ego maintains..

I wish that our habit of presuming that we are the center of validity, & that center is somehow "exclusive" of all other lives, had already been intentionally "put down", before I'd got to school.

How awesome it'd have been, to grow-up with schoolbooks which showed that we had equally-valid kin..

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