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					<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on <a href="http://patternsofmeaning.com/2015/09/10/a-price-on-carbon-it-will-work-because-it-doesnt-change-everything/">Patterns of Meaning</a>: <br />Less than three months to go before the COP21 climate conference in Paris, and the emissions targets submitted by countries &#8211; the basis for a new global climate treaty &#8211; are grossly insufficient. This chart says it all. The blue shows current policy projections; the pink shows the aggregate&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 02:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In recent years, my ideas about the &#8220;tyranny of the prefrontal cortex&#8221; have been folded in to a two-volume work called The Patterning Instinct, which looks at our human search for meaning in the universe.  The first volume (to be finished hopefully in the next few months) incorporates the ideas of &#8220;tyranny of the prefrontal [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Video presentation of &#8220;Changing Metaphors of Nature&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last month, I gave a presentation at the World History Association conference in Grand Rapids, MI, called Humanity&#8217;s Changing Metaphors of Nature, which is now up on YouTube.   The presentation explains the power of metaphor in human cognition, and shows how humanity’s metaphors of Nature have changed as we transitioned through different stages of our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeremy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In early August, I presented some of the ideas of this blog at two connected conferences in Grand Rapids, Michigan: At the International Big History Association conference, I gave a presentation on the Tyranny of the Prefrontal Cortex. Here is a pdf of what I presented. At the Midwest branch of the World History Association, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The worldwide reach of shamanism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeremy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This section of my book begins an examination of shamanism.  It kicks off by defining it, looking at its worldwide reach and asking why shamanism got to be so global&#8230; [Previous section: The hunter-gatherer view of the natural world] The worldwide reach of shamanism Shamanism is one of those controversial terms that can spark innumerable [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The hunter-gatherer view of the natural world</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 01:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[aboriginals]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this section of my book, I explore some of the core hunter-gatherer perceptions of the natural world.  To the early hunter-gatherers, which is how our ancestors lived for 99% of our human history, the earth was a giving environment.  It was also in a state of continual transformation&#8230; [Previous section: Everything is connected] The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Everything is connected</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 23:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This section of my book on the hunter-gatherer worldview discusses its most important underlying assumption: that everything is connected.  At the end of the section, I speculate that the connectivity of this worldview and the intrinsic connectivity of language (through recursion) is not coincidental, but arises from the fact that both conceptual systems emerge from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Video of Tyranny of the Prefrontal Cortex presentation</title>
		<link>https://jeremylent.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/video-of-tyranny-of-the-prefrontal-cortex-presentation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeremy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 01:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a video of the presentation I gave at the conference Towards A Science of Consciousness in April. It&#8217;s called the Tyranny of the Prefrontal Cortex and summarizes what this blog is all about, and a major theme of my book Liology: Towards A Science of Consciousness. I hope you&#8217;ll find it a worthwhile twenty [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Where am I? Among what do I move?&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeremy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 23:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to resume posting on this blog sections of the book I&#8217;m writing entitled Liology: Towards an Integration of Science and Meaning.  Last year, I posted in this blog the first four chapters of the book.  Today, I&#8217;m beginning with the first section of my chapter on the world of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, entitled [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Presentation at &#8220;Towards a Science of Consciousness&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeremy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Pfc tyranny: overview]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week, I gave my presentation on the &#8220;Tyranny of the Prefrontal Cortex&#8221; at the Towards a Science of Consciousness conference in Tucson, Arizona.  I&#8217;m glad to say it was very well received, and an interesting and wide ranging set of questions ensued. Here are a couple of pictures of me at the podium.    [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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