hello this is sob haugland mass i'm a forty year veteran activists with louche political action committee prior to my involvement with the political action  committee and i've been involved in the puget sound area for thirty three years prior to my involvement i studied anthropology at columbia university and over the years i've been thinking extensively about the problem of anthropology being essentially that it in terms of the origin of man on this earth and in terms of the origins of policy does not really recognize that human beings are human and so when they look at the issue of the evolution of man's coming into being as a species from an evolutionary standpoint they take tend to look at the genetic similarities with apes and they tend to look at the fossil from that standpoint and they tend to look at at at the mergence of technology and the emergence of culture in a similar way as a kind of gradual process which occurs and which is going on and it continues to go on they tend to see themselves as products rather than as creative actors they tend to see themselves as determined rather than willful creative actors and when people say that we are are created in the image of the creator or some other concept which means that we are willful and creative actors and  can we have the power to create which is what the idea of the man in the image of the creator is this is just rubbish this is just superstition this is just religion this is this is just an opinion to suggest people you know who believing in god and and what have you well i'm not i'm not here to discuss religion i'm not here to talk about religion i'm here to talk about creating a new anthropology based upon distinction between what a human being is and what an atom of us and so what i did develop is a is a concept as a starting point and i base this on the work of nicholas of cusa who looked at science and looked at looked at the universe from the standpoint of a maximum and a minimum you know and also looked at the poet of human development in the classical german period and in his point poem the artists he actually describes in their the actual cultural evolutionary process in the best way possible that about human beings and that is that human beings have a have a have a quality of being able to perceive proportions to perceive beauty and also i'll get into that in a second but but so the the first thing is what is the minimum on which the human species i want you can have a human consciousness what is the minimum that you can have a human conscious and that minimum is not a biological thing it's a social thing and or something outside of the social process but it's a social process and something outside of social process that allows for socialization of concepts which animals do not have the most important concept is the concept of the one and the concept of the one is the basis for naming of objects but the concept of the one is also the basis for being able to to to have the many and this concept of the one is the essence of of the kind of concepts that human beings have and share in a social process without which they could not exist without which you cannot have consciousness social consciousness or human consciousness as we know it and that that social one that's social that concept of the run is one of the one of the key concepts i wish him an existence occurs within the group because you you have to have a sense that the group is a one and you have to have a sense that you're a member of that group for for survival to occur you also have to have a sense that so this disk the concepts that create the social structure that create the basis for consciousness are not concepts which are derived from sense experience they're not concepts which are derived from interacting with nature in and of itself they're not concepts based on a utilitarian how do we how do we poke a stick in the right for the existence of human consciousness which is necessary for the existence of human beings in society which is the necessary for the existence of the capability to do those sort of things but just the knowledge just having some some imitation of somebody else's procedure that was witnessed and done is not the same thing it's animals probably could x could probably be trained to do some of these things so so now so this question of the minimum is what i'm going to explore a little bit here and go into then looking at some of the keep issues in anthropology from the standpoint of the minimum so this minimum that i'm talking about is the minimum for the existence of human consciousness now there is a social minimum that have that exists and there's also a culture made them in for the social minimum to exist and but wouldn't but but don't don't animals have intelligence do have intelligence apes wos elephants dolphins even beasts i mean dark take ornate don't they have a scant kind of society don't they have a kind of intelligence and they do but human intelligence is not the same as animal intelligence because human intelligence operates in a world of concepts concepts which are socially created they're socially socialize but without those concepts you couldn't exist and those concepts are of the type of the  one concept of origin a concept of the unseen or spirit those are the kind of concepts that exist that have to exist for the society to exist because to the mind to the human consciousness that set the sensory world is in comprehensible and a human being is driven by a desire for comprehension and why is a human being is driven for comprehension is the fact that a human being in the social sense exists in a different space it's a moral space in the broadest sense of the word it's so it's a space of concepts of the type i'm talking judge the power to discern proportions the power to have a sense of justice the power to do to have a sense of beauty and human being the socialisation of that power and the products of the effort to make comprehensible the incomprehensible physical reality or the physical senses what you experience through the senses is that desire that drive to make those things comprehensible is the asse of what distinguishes man from the atoms that's a different quality it doesn't mean animals don't have intelligence it doesn't mean animals don't communicate with each other but but animals don't have this quality and this quality is the essence of not of human cognition beyond which a minimum if society collapses ok now we come into the cultural question in order for a society to exist the society has to cooperate the people has to side is no such thing a struggle survival the fittest of human beings cooperate with each other and an existing in society means cooperation it means sharing a certain certain concepts and but those concepts aren't r r r r r are created by individuals in the society and those individuals are the leaders and those individual also create the identities on which the individuals in that society function and that grouping function and cultures is the actual product of all this entire process now that culture has to develop greater power because there's a there's a there's a certain conflict between the identities want to gets in the culture and and one's perception of the incompleteness of those i get it so there's a certain struck desire for comprehension which is driving formulate to create an imitation which is that creating that imitation of beauty actually transforms man into a creative being but the creation of an imitation of the beauty of for is not only a ten for comprehension but it's an attempt to create for man this this beauty now at the same time you have in the culture you have a need for for it to develop because otherwise if the culture becomes too fixed and the society collapses because the individual stifling and the the issue of language and the origin of language and and this is the biggest issue in anthropology but from the standpoint of the minimum cognition that is required for the sustaining of the the concepts of the one the concepts of origin the concepts of explaining the un's the unseen which is which is used to explain the visible which is incomprehensible the development of that ind and of dot is the essence of the development of language now the origin of language is neither all the all of a sudden language emerged or all of a sudden it was created through sounds or what have you because human beings had to be human before they create language or put it another way language could be created before there they are human but it's not human language and that's kind of unclear what i'm saying but in other words human beings create language marion's and language don't create language human beings create link and he would beings are constantly creating language whether it's language by signs or whether it's language by sounds or whatever because they're trying to communicate concepts which the mind of another individual but the language is used to do that but the language itself cannot communicate the concept so just the development of language is driven by the desire for comprehension a desire to communicate human beings create a language and through the language they are able to develop a monic platforms for the concepts that are necessary that are to be shared on which to societies existence  is a very radical conception in anthropology i don't i don't know of anybody who's ever presented this before in this way and perhaps i have not presented it in the most perfect way i've written a paper on it which is probably a better presentation of what i'm giving you right now but the and the neanderthals and others had grave sites and and what a grave site any artist associated with a grave site represents is the fact that the individuals of that society or that group had a sense that there was something different about humanity about themselves about each other that transcended the actual physical sense certainty that there was something about a person that was not governed by biology or governed by and that they were essentially representing that end and the burial process that they were actually representing a real find out for the society themselves that there was something outside the bounds of sense perception outside the bounds of biology outside the bombs outside the bounds so essentially this is an example of the perception of humans about the nature of their nature which is not an animal not the other corresponding fact is that if a culture is stifling to create creative process the culture has to collapse because a population is expanding there has to be creative breakthroughs in order to change and the relationship that human beings have with the environment in order to continue to have human beings exist so human beings are recreating themselves through their recreating crew creating and recreating culture and when they are unable to do solid that's when the society collapses no human beings can exist as an a lot of ads apologise and early explorers when they came upon pre agricultural societies they they thought these are cultural societies were were very pristine because they didn't have the great principle in them people were very well behaved and a lot of people thought that this primitive condition was the natural condition of man but actually what what you what they did not take into account is the dynamic of leadership that exists in all in every human society where no matter how primitive there is leadership and without leadership those societies cannot exist in the leader is not the strongest guy that goes out and it's the best hunter it's usually often the weakest person often a woman who is the leader spiritual leader and what is a spiritual leader do it it creates the concepts it creates the ideas it creates the stories th transmit the stories the stories of origin the cosmology that is created to explain the unexplainable which is the physical sensations and that person the physical reach and comprehensible empirical reality that cannot be comprehended at so you so human being create create an approximation of some causalities behind that and that's in the form of of of discussing the unseen or what what might be shaping the visible the visible universe animals don't do that animals are trying to figure out why this is happening or that's happening a what's causing this to happen or what's causing that animals don't do that human beings are that and that's and that's a nature of humanity from the very beginning and these individuals some people would call them sean's and it's the shah man who's responsible for the psychological condition of the group because in in a group of that nature the existence is not a given and if you have one person who is not functioning in a cooperative way it's very disruptive and there and therefore the schama has to deal with that person or the leader as the leadership has to deal with that person for the group and therefore people are well behaved because any greed instinct any ego that interferes with the with the development or function of the group has to be dealt with and it is that was in the form of you know while you have an evil spirit destroy the struct in the group you have to get rid of that he will spare no you have to leave the group and die because outside the group you can survive so all these ideas of struggle of the survival of the fittest all these ideas are total garbage human existence only occurs in the most extreme form of cooperation but that cooperation cannot cause and a fixed culture to send in to  cause the to the restriction on the creative potential of the individuals because that creative potential of the individual making creative contributions has to has to exist in the culture for the culture to survive over time so these are the things other new anthropology has to has to look at so when so when you find archaeological artifacts or you find bones or you find whatever you can look at the bones from a genetic and compare did you know like to compare various different bones for different genetic how close they were genetically and all of that but that doesn't tell you what what a human being is it doesn't define what a human being is and how human beings actually exist as humans and how they actually develop from there a minimal from the minimum to develop the capacity to continue developing that none of that is explain existing anthropology and there is this distinction and if you start from that distinction then the issue of lack of the origin of language is not so big a deal because because it's not language that created man it's man who created language and man had to be man had to be human had to have a human capability in order for lying to be created but that doesn't necessarily mean the that that humans had a full development of the larynx really like that before they were human it just means that the process of creating a language was was driven by the desire for comprehension and and animals have language animals have all kinds of languages to communicate they can communicate emotions they can communicate all kinds of things but human beings are not functioning in an animal language or intention although they could a time people do but animals human beings can have an animal like communications but they have something else which is a human communication of ai a concepts and also that quite kind of communication does not exist between them and the confusion that exists in the field of biology and the field of anthropology is there's no distinction on this there is not and this is big this is huge because people walk around thinking they're animals they deny your humanity  instinct governed by premeditated genetics or whatever and you're not you're a human being and you have that capacity of concreate a power of judgment that can reflect upon your nature can reflect upon unseen spirits they can reflect upon the fact that you're you know you there's a one you're part of a one you're not just you you're not just it but that's a that's not you know you're in a you're in a wolf pack right it's not the same thing and we as human beings are being treated very proper improperly and a great disservice is doing being done to us by the disciplines of biology in anthropology today and we need to change that we need to have a concept a man which is based upon our distinction from animals rather than a con then and one that is just an elaboration or of a more of a more complex animal and that's what the new anthropology is about what you do that then you're going to look at things differently you're going to study archaeological different you go to interpret what you discover archaeologically different you're going to look at what the culture was that created this and and and and the biggest thing is the is the issue of of a fire what was the culture of the created in man the lessening of fear such a fire could be played with because what what this culture do what does art do what does art do it it creates a capacity to we to control what your internal self this conceptual aspect as it's developed by culture allows you to control your internal forces of nature your will your internal forces nature as well as the external forces to change the external forces around you so the invention of fire had to be preceded by a certain level cultural development and it was the cultural development that is the essence of the evolution and it's because art which is the essence of cultural development and and and and and the invention of fire other or the discovery of fire and the use of fire is was the most ecan profound revolutionary breakthrough  man's relationship to nature but it had to be preceded by a process of artistic development before that could happen because it's through art artistry that human beings establish mastery of their own fear and and an animal like qualities they they essentially can temper those and and and and and and not be controlled by them because you're no longer in an animal you're in your human being you're outside the control of fear you're outside the control of greed you're outside of control of hunger you're no longer being determined by those things and therefore you have you have a capacity to dad examine and and and and and and control not only yourself but increasingly control the forces of nature outside and that can't be done by animals and it's not just a morphological issue the morphology a man has followed the development of of man's consciousness but  this this quality very good and when he went human cultures and human societies collapse below the minimum and they no longer maintain a minimum in their society as is the case here we're no longer maintaining the minimum cultural level and social level to be able to maintain cognitive human beings then the whole society collapses and i could say a lot more but i'll leave it