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Search for the First Human (Sahelanthropus Tchadensis)
Sahelanthropus tchadensis is one of the oldest known species in the human family tree.
The species lived between 7 and 6 million years in western Central Africa (Chad). Upright walking may have helped the species survive in diverse habitats – including forests and grasslands.
Despite having only Sahelanthropus skull material, studies so far indicates that primitive man was a combination of apelike traits and similarities to humans.
Its features include a small brain monkey (although a little smaller than a chimpanzee!) Head bowed, very prominent brow ridges and elongated skull.
Their human-like features include small canine teeth, a middle part of the face below, and an opening of the spinal cord below the skull rather than toward the rear, as well as in non-bipedal primates (or monkeys).
How do we know Sahelanthropus walked upright? Some of the earliest evidence of walking on two legs is Sahelanthropus.
The large opening (foramen magnum) into the base of the skull to the spinal cord connects the brain is placed below (the bottom of the skull) than in apes or any other primate except humans. This characteristic indicates that the head of Sahelanthropus was conducted in a body upright.
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Actually i believe he is talking about the illusion of consciousness. That our unconscious brain makes the decisions of our daily lives for us, and our synapses and nerves make the illusion that you consciously made that decision. Have you ever noticed that you can’t really choose what to think about? Even if you did choose, you didn’t really, the thought to choose that topic came from somewhere. You did not create it, it just floated into your head. that’s what i think he’s getting at.
@vancity01 No actually there is only evidence conscious experiences are correlated with the brain, some suggestive of it yes but no hard evidence consciousness is created by the brain. In fact it is inconceivable how such a thing actually takes place, that is why no scientist can adequetly how it happens instead they simply state that it does, pure rhetoric. You people have much to learn.
@skyrimlmftw There is another possibility fool, the brain is an instrument of consciousness but not consciousness itself. If your TV breaks does the channel also cease to exist? You should think critically of your own assumptions.. I know better.
@d3x7rous Yeah it is obvious that our experiences are correlated with the states of the brain but that does not mean the brain causes experience itself, correlation is not causation. It is easy for people to state dogmatically “consciousness is due to electrical activity between neurons” but actually explaining how this is done is another thing.
your so rong its funny! there is so much evidence that our brains produces consciousness, you must be blind or death to ignore the facts. we can now days change the neuronic flow with magnetic fields and create all sorts of experiences.
Fact is reality is immaterial. Just look at quantum physics, the electron exists everywhere as a wave until it is collapsed somehow? Electrons can become entangled so they response insantly to one another regardless of the physical distance.. its pretty obvious what this stuff means, it means that reality is “physical” and a whole whack load of things one thought impossible are entirely possible. Just look at NDE’s and OBE’s. It’s gonna be nice once these old stubborn farts die out (no offense)
Funny how many of these n00b philosophers believe the brain produces consciousness, then when you hear there explanation for how it does so it completely avoids consciousness/perception itself and only explains how the OBJECTS of consciousness occur within consciousness. They fail to grasp the fact that experirence itself cannot said to be material, it is immaterial, its not an object. So saying the brain makes consciousness is like saying 1 + 1 = 3 or triangles are as round as circles.