The Role of gestures in crime scene cleanup cannot be overstated. Two crime scene cleanup technicians working in tandem rely heavily on gestures to communicate effectively, at least as long as they wear respirators at startup.
Similarly, we find gestures in warfare play a monstrous role in mass and individual homicides. Gestures at launch time on aircraft carriers signal vital information to pilots from deck crews. Infantry soldiers rely heavily on hand signals, gestures, alerting other soldiers to changes in direction, civilians, and their enemy's approach.
With time and learning our species became award of verbal gestures, words. With words came generalizations, a significant event in our evolution. The significant symbol soon followed. The power contained in significant symbols passed the power of gestures by magnitudes.
Through communication networks, gestures, verbal gestures, words, and generalized meanings attirbuted to words drove us into the age of science.
We know a lot about the mind by what we experience from our sensations.
Nothing could be more obvious then the earth is stable and the center of the universe, at least it appears so. When science provided an uncontrovertable truth, we learned the human brain, the organ of the mind, worked alone in finding this truth. Still, the discovering mind did not become what it was without others.
Our sociality is an important part in who we are as a species. Among questions, whether our social brain network contributes to spirituality. Over the past 3 centuries theology and philosophy took second place to science.
There remains something missing in our lives.
Gestures in George Herbert Mead
Attitude: beliefs, opinions, and