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Comment author: David_Gerard 10 January 2011 12:10:29PM -1 points [-]

Something that I have found useful in comprehending the gap between the primitive hunter-gatherer's thinking and reductionist materialist thinking:

You know New Age/alt. med. puffery, and how it annoys you? That's because it has a deep strain of vitalism. If you think of the annoying stupidity as the effects of vitalistic thinking, you'll know what a vitalistic world view looks like. Fundamental everything. Spirits in everything. (And dolphins, for some reason.)