The Rise and Decline of Mythic Cognition as a Major Cultural Strategy
Channel: Ronit Nikolsky's channel on Culture and Cognition
Date: 2023-07-30

A lecture by Dr. Ronit Nikolsky

The conference’s site: https://centrumq.uw.edu.pl/en/cognitive-futures-2023/
The Centre for Research on Culture, Language and Mind, headed by Dr. Yanna Popova: https://centrumq.uw.edu.pl/en/home/
The Kiffness’ lonely cat clip: https://youtu.be/lwLLFbC1H0c
tts (reading Murshili’s 2nd text): https://ttsmp3.com/
St. Augustine’s Confessions audiobook: https://youtu.be/4uMVIRUMdsg, 13:44
Barack Obama’s inaugural speech 2009 (CBS News): https://youtu.be/JwcR00oGbv0, 16:25
Girl on high heels: https://www.123rf.com/photo_87518879_cute-little-girl-in-dress-and-red-high-heels-at-home.html
Four versions of Mona Lisa: https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2020/03/11/the-eternal-enigma-of-leonardo-da-vincis-mona-lisa.html
Baseball diagram: figure content by Alan M. Nathan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309008798_Oblique_Collisions_of_Baseballs_and_Softballs_with_a_Bat/figures?lo=1, in the article “Oblique Collisions of Baseballs and Softballs with a Bat” (October 2016, American Journal of Physics 85(7)); DOI: 10.1119/1.4982793, by Jeffrey R. Kensrud,  Alan M. Nathan, and Lloyd V. Smith

00:00 Introduction
02:24 A short description of the Decoupling Theory
04:42 A short description of the evolution of human cognition
07:12 Mythic Cognition and Language (La Linea guy)
09:05 Cognition and Culture
09:38 A few disclaimers: Narratives, Stories, Literature, Texts
11:05 Theoretical models vs. historical cases
12:27 Narratives and emotions
13:38 What is meant by Rise and Decline in human (cultural) evolution
15:22 The basic stage of mythic cognition (The Kiffness)
19:50 Murshili 2nd’s trauma story
21:51 The Confessions of St. Augustine
24:33 The inauguration of Barack Obama 2009
26:41 Imagined Communities and the decline of mythic cognition
28:09 Ending