Nice, so you also have a lazy Friday.
Oh ... very interesting ... you draw a great circle from prehistoric ancestors to ultra-modern citizens and both face the same thing "uncertainty" where the circle closes again ... That is indeed a very surprising thought!
Hm .. I lately started to think that we might underestimate our prehistoric ancestors. I do not think of them as frightened creatures all superstitious in a naive way ... Scared over the top by earthquakes and weather phenomena, certainly cautious. I don't know why, maybe because of the influence of some really good books I read and also because of some other stuff I saw documented which opened up my readiness for letting in other stuff than pure science. Even though science itself has to do with it, too. The cave findings of paintings do radiate some really impressing energy, even just looking at them through the screen from the far. Don't know if you heard of them. Anthropologists put a lot of interest in them.
There was a pre-scientific era of people, how was it perceived?
For no objective reason I started to believe that our ancestors were dealing with death a lot better than modern people. Their abilities on an intuitive level must have been much higher than ours when it came to finding water and prey. I believe in things like the symbolic language in the Jungian sense and also find other sources interesting which speak from a collective "memory". For me, it is also logical, that what happened to my former generations (family related) does survive through unconscious convictions some generations (getting weaker over time).
I don't think that all findings of what humans do have interest for must be scientifically proven to count as true for people. I would dislike a world like this. Intuition actually, was for me a nice topic as it's not scientifically rejected when it comes to physical events. Mr. Sheldrake, for example, is interested in the fact that there is still room for a lot of research and that it is possible to empirically and correctly investigate this resonance phenomena. I find him fascinating because he tries to pursue his science in such a playful way. One might think what one wants of him, but I think he is courageous and opens up completely new fields.
Personal narratives don't do it for "science", that's true, but they are the inspiration generators to open up new fields of research.
Not so much lazy as recovering from a cold. My energy level has been greatly reduced since last weekend--although there is nothing wrong with being 'lazy'. Some of my best thoughts come from lazy times.
I'm very familiar with cave art. Wrote a couple of (small) books--on history and on art-- for students in which I featured it, briefly. Amazing that it can be found in different parts of the world.
Although intuition is hard to prove to a skeptic, I believe it is real. But it is so easy for the skill to be claimed by charlatans that it undermines true experiences. And undermines serious efforts to validate it.