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Now, another amazing thing that we found about Ice Age cave paintings is that they have symbols. Okay? So we saw pictures, but a Canadian anthropologist named Genevieve von Petzinger, she went all around the world and she documented symbols in these Ice Age cave paintings, and she found recurring symbols. For example, the hand. Okay? The hand is everywhere. The spiral, the quadrangle, the circle. Okay? The asterisk. Let me ask you this question. Why would paintings have symbols? Why would drawings have symbols? Why can't you just draw the thing? Why do you need to have symbols? Okay. So you're right. Okay? So we think that this is a written language. Okay? It's one of the first written languages, which meant that back then, they actually had the ability to read and write. Okay? So maybe this is a common language. What are some other possibilities? 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Okay. So another theory, okay, again, we don't know. Okay? No one knows. But like, let's look at different theories. Another theory is that this is the language of the gods. Right? As you say, to keep the content mysterious, to give it divine or holy or sacred meaning. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. What are some other possibilities? Yes, exactly. Okay. Yeah. So this can also be a shorthand. Okay? We call this shorthand. But also, like, there's some things you can't draw. For example, love or energy or repetition or balance, harmony, cycle. Right? These things you can't draw. So you have to represent them using symbols. Okay? So there are many different possibilities. Which means this, okay? Let's just summarize what the possibilities are. What are the symbols in art? Okay? The first is that maybe there are you're trying to visualize an idea. Okay? 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We could not think. We could not communicate. We could not imagine. Does it make sense guys? Okay? Any questions about this? Okay. Now let's look at a quote. Okay? What is religion? Okay? And this is from Imel Durkheim. Okay? And I want you to remember the name Imel Durkheim. Okay? He's just as famous as Immanuel Kant. Imel Durkheim is considered the founder of sociology. Okay? So when you go to university and you study sociology guess what? You'll mainly be studying Imel Durkheim. Okay? So this is what he says about religion. Religion is above all okay? First and foremost religion is this a system of idea by which men imagine society of which they are members. Okay? And this is of understanding the world. All right? Does that make sense guys? All right. So let's look at what he says again in more detail. 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When people don't do things they're supposed to be doing. Okay? So and what and these things are what? What are things that defy the mother goddess or go against the the mother goddess? How about incest? Right? How about killing animals without making the proper sacrifices? Right? So you just kill the animals but you don't go in the cave to pray for them for for their return. Okay? So in other words in this world religion is basically ritual. And this is something that we'll study next class. How religion is just ritual. Okay? Just just habits and practices and actions. Any other questions? 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We have many examples of this. 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All right. Now, another amazing thing that we found about Ice Age cave paintings is that they have symbols. Okay? So we saw pictures, but a Canadian anthropologist named Genevie..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 2024.42, "end": 2056.27, "time_label": "33:44", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Excuse me? To keep the content mysterious. Okay, that's interesting. Okay? To keep the content mysterious. And so where do these symbols come from? To keep the content mysterious, right? 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They're tr..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 2204.62, "end": 2267.85, "time_label": "36:44", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The geometric signs. So in other words, they went to the spirit world or they think they went into the spirit world and then they're just trying to express the language of the spirit world. Okay? Does that make sense? 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Do..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0037" ], "kind": "reading-quoted-material", "summary": "Jiang states the lecture's thesis in three points, then introduces Emile Durkheim's definition of religion as a system of ideas by which people imagine their society.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang quoting and explaining Durkheim", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "segment_id": "seg-0036", "start": 2462.2, "end": 2537.64, "time_label": "41:02", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So art is basically religion. There's no difference. Second thing is that they're trying to show to themselves how reality works. Okay? They're trying to show that the underlying reality is a soul or god. Okay? 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So back then we believed that for most of human history either we were egalitarian meaning like men and women were equal than men. Only in recent history do men have more power. Okay? And how this happened I'll ex..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "segment_id": "seg-0036", "start": 2462.2, "end": 2537.64, "time_label": "41:02", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So art is basically religion. There's no difference. Second thing is that they're trying to show to themselves how reality works. Okay? They're trying to show that the underlying reality is a soul or god. Okay? Do..." } ] }, { "term": "Balance and harmony", "usages": [ "The order maintained when each being plays its role and ritual compensates for actions such as killing animals." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0015", "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0016" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0015", "segment_id": "seg-0015", "start": 1089.64, "end": 1163.71, "time_label": "18:09", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "go back into the spirit world right so now we have to summon them back from the spirit world into our world okay does that make sense so in other words what this religion what this belief is really saying is that we are..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 1163.71, "end": 1231.75, "time_label": "19:23", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "everything that means that for us trees animals us are all equal we're all the children of mother nature we all have souls okay and so what gives us permission to kill other animals why are we allowed to kill other and..." } ] }, { "term": "Biological animal", "usages": [ "The evolutionary-biology model that humans are motivated by reproductive strategy and spreading genes." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0050" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0050", "segment_id": "seg-0050", "start": 3270.66, "end": 3335.04, "time_label": "54:30", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And that's what we believe today. 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So we saw pictures, but a Canadian anthropologist named Genevie..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "segment_id": "seg-0029", "start": 2060.16, "end": 2138.38, "time_label": "34:20", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Do you understand? Okay. So another theory, okay, again, we don't know. Okay? No one knows. But like, let's look at different theories. Another theory is that this is the language of the gods. Right? As you say, to keep..." } ] }, { "term": "Collective consciousness", "usages": [ "Jiang's Durkheimian term for religion as collective thought, the shared imagined order that lets society come into being." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0040" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0040", "segment_id": "seg-0040", "start": 2771.03, "end": 2840.49, "time_label": "46:11", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "It is because religion is a social thing that it could play this role. To make men take control of sense impressions and replace them with a new way of imagining the real a new kind of thought had to be created. Collect..." } ] }, { "term": "Common memory and imagination", "usages": [ "The shared language and mythology that allow people to become a society." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0036" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "segment_id": "seg-0036", "start": 2462.2, "end": 2537.64, "time_label": "41:02", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So art is basically religion. There's no difference. Second thing is that they're trying to show to themselves how reality works. Okay? They're trying to show that the underlying reality is a soul or god. Okay? Do..." } ] }, { "term": "Economic animal", "usages": [ "The Marx-linked model that humans are driven by money, grades, jobs, and material advancement." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0049", "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0050" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0049", "segment_id": "seg-0049", "start": 3191.25, "end": 3270.66, "time_label": "53:11", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And we find that when they settle down and build agriculture they did so on mountaintops and they did so around rivers. Okay? Does that make sense? But not caves because you couldn't actually live in caves. Does that an..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0050", "segment_id": "seg-0050", "start": 3270.66, "end": 3335.04, "time_label": "54:30", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And that's what we believe today. Right? 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But that does not mean t..." } ] }, { "term": "Imagined reality", "usages": [ "Jiang's Kantian claim that reality is created by the mind rather than passively seen." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0032" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 2204.62, "end": 2267.85, "time_label": "36:44", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The geometric signs. So in other words, they went to the spirit world or they think they went into the spirit world and then they're just trying to express the language of the spirit world. Okay? Does that make sense? A..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 2268.13, "end": 2309.73, "time_label": "37:48", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Reality is something that we imagine. 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So you're right in that..." } ] }, { "term": "Science as religion", "usages": [ "A provocative claim that science is also an imaginative, evidence-bearing understanding of the world descended from religion." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0039" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0039", "segment_id": "seg-0039", "start": 2701.01, "end": 2770.93, "time_label": "45:01", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Furthermore it was less important to succeed than to dare. The fact that we try is what's important. What has what was essential was not to be to was not to let the mind be dominated by what appears to the senses. 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