The big bang of the modern mind around 40,000 years ago coincides with the birth of art, totemism, and "theory of mind". All this is suggestive that our minds seek to recreate beings "in our own image" that look like us, think like us, and behave like us - the robots and androids of science fiction, and of science...

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In
Our
Own
Image
Will
Ar'ficial
Intelligence
Save
or
Destroy
Us?
The
“Birth
of
Art
and
the
Emergence
of
the
Modern
Mind”
are
discussed
in
George
Zarkadakis
book
“In
Our
Own
Image”,
published
in
the
UK
by
Rider
Books.
The
book
is
available
in
bookstores
and
on
Amazon.
Author’s
page:
www.georgezarkadakis.com