A Video for Professor Deacon
Channel: Theresa Kadish
Date: 23/12/2013

In which Maximus roughly sketches an argument as to why symbols should be considered real entities that can be the causes of effects, and how symbols bind together human society into a super organism.

Bibliography: 
The first and third quotes come from:
 Beyond the Symbolic Species, Chapter 2 in The Symbolic Species Evolved. 
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-007-2336-8_2

The Second Quote Comes from: 
Deacon, T. and Cashman, T. (2009) The role of symbolic capacity in the origins of
religion. Journal of Religion, Nature & Culture Vol. 3 No. 4, pp. 490-517
http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/Deacon%20Cashman%20Religion%20reprint%202009.pdf

Other Source Material: 
Eliminativism, Complexity and Emergence, http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/Deacon-Cashman%20CEE.pdf

The Symbol Concept 
http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/43.pdf

The Symbolic Species (1997) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Symbolic_Species

Moving Naturalism Forward Youtube Conference:
http://preposterousuniverse.com/naturalism2012/video.html