On 11 Sep 2002 at 15:31, Archibald Scatflinger wrote:
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> > [rhinoceros]
> > As important as Lieberman's work in revising Chomsky's hypothesis
> > is, the
> scientific dispute between "one Darwinian mutation - one gene
> responsible for language" (Chomsky) vs "Darwinian evolution of the
> preexisting motor system" (Lieberman) is an ongoing one which we
> cannot resolve here. >
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> http://www.entheogen.com/shrooms.html
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> by David Jay Brown and Rebecca McClen, published in the April 1992
> issue of High Times. "At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this
> activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests
> as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of
> higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman
> animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or
> evolutionary catalyst."
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> http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/McKenna/
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Yep; that was the late great Terence McKenna's rap, most fully fleshed
out in his book FOOD OF THE GODS and his essay collection THE
ARCHAIC REVIVAL.
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