Dear dear, what a lot of fuss and bother on some of the other groups, still, nice and quiet here, in fact not a sound, what a pity some people on the other...
Hi Richard (& anyone else out there.) Have been reading Steven Pinker's 'The Blank Slate' during recent ferry journeys Over all I approve of it - I like to...
Greetings, we humans think that what we see around us and what we have discovered is the whole of reality, but consider how life evolved, various forms of...
Hi Richard I think it pretty exciting to consider that we only understand 3% of reality - 97% left for us to explore! My fear is to do with the apparent cost...
... Hi Robert, when you read all this new fangled stuff, you are supposed to forget all that old hat nonsense, I believe it is called progress, whatever that...
Hello Coin Origins List Members, In moderrn economies, the utility of coins as standards or exchange, stores of wealth, even bench marks for values of ...
Hello, what is the point of either writing or reading philosophy, life is about survival, about finding the next meal reproducing and finding shelter....
... supposed to forget all that old hat nonsense, I believe it is called progress, whatever that is supposed to mean?. All the best Richard.> Hi Richard Its...
Hi Richard Am not convinced I study coins & numismatic history in order to attract the opposite sex. After about 40 years of it I would have to be pretty...
... Ah, Robert, I can see you now in a dusty room sitting with a pile of musty books on obscure subjects, with a pile of ancient copper coins that the average...
Hi Richard It seems to me that the problem you are posing was better set out in Homer, with the judgement of Paris. Men tend to have competing asprations...
... Hi Robert and COG readers, yes I think ten thousand to one hundred thousand years before Pinker is about right, it is in this time scale that our Cro...
Hello Robert, Richard and COG list, With genetics the blank slate idea is pretty well out of favor. Then we also do not really choose our environments for the...
... Hi Alan, I am in the procfss of reading through Steve Pinkers Book, and I think he has once and for all knocked the idea of a blank slate on the head, if...
Hello Richard and COG List, I would argue gold and silver have some real value, though perhaps it would be lower if they were not so widely thought of as...
Hi Richard, Alan Richard - glad you are enjoying Pinker - I pretty much agree with all you wrote in the last. Alan - I think Richard probably already...
Hello Robert, Richard and COG list members, The "blank slate" can be an analogy to coins. In that they did not arise from nothing, instead following long pre...
... Hi Alan, Robert, and any other musqueteros who might be out there. Camera film is not blank paper, it is impregnated with light sensitive chemicals which...
Hi Group, it has probably been a part of our nature since the beginning of our species especially where groups living fairly near to each other that some sort...
Hi group, I am partially agreed with what Richard said, but I would like to add an important precision. When talking about the origin of coins, there is a ...
... Good post, and I agree with everything except the above, mostly because there's such disagreement about this. <g> The dating of these coins has been...
Dear Louis, Reid Nice to see things happening on this site! Re - the date of the first coins I have no opinion on this - but Michael Mitchiner will soon...
... Dear Louis, thanks for the E mail, call these objects money if you wish, but it is to them we must look if we are to find the origins of coins "as such",...
Dear Group, isnt it just possible that some of the Indian punchmarked silver series may possibly predate the first issues of Lydia, and consequently could be...
Hello Richard and Coin Origins Group, As I understand it, some Indian numismatists / archeologists consider this the case. I wonder about some of the odd lumps...
Hello Richard COG list, 5th century BC for early punch silver does not seem radical to me. In stratigraphic analysis there are some things to keep in mind when...
