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The Snake Cult of Consciousness Two Years Later
A theory on the cause for what antropologists call "the great leap". Humans are genetically modern since 350.000 years ago, but only started exhibiting typically human arts 65.000 y/a: like language, art, music, spirituality, dance, storytelling, marriage, etc.
Why is this?
One popular explanation is the stoned ape theory; it was because of psychedelic mushrooms. This article argues that it's snake venom.
This is one of the best rationality articles I have ever read. It was posted here a year or 2 ago and I just reread it and saw it had only 38 likes. I find this a great injustice! So I'm sharing again.
u/BadHairDayToday — 2 days ago