Thursday, December 23, 2010

Homo empathicus: an argument for evolved human consciousness.

At RSAnimate, Jeremy Rifkin asserts, "We have to begin thinking as an extended family...we have to broaden our sense of identity...we extend our identities so we can think of the human race as our fellow sojourners, and our other creatures here as part of our evolutionary family, and the biosphere as our community. If we are truly homo empathicus, then we have to bring out that core nature, because if it doesn't come out and it's repressed...the secondary drives come: the narcissism, the materialism, the violence, and the aggression..."

Check out the link & if you feel like it, post your thoughts...

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