Paperback. This book, the second in a three-volume series, shows the destructive nature that symbolic thought has on civilization and the need for a transition to symptomatic thought and behavior. Ridley demonstrates how the experts in the cognitive sciences, including all fields of anthropology, misrepresent the way symbols affect the neurological processes of the human brain. The author shows that the traditional belief that symptoms are inferior to symbols is erroneous, and that this belief has caused unspeakable cruelty and conflict the world over. Ridley reaffirms his original thesis that man suffered a neurological misadventure in prehistory that caused the beginning of symbolic behavior. Symbolic thinking, a learned behavior, is not innate to the neurological processes of the brain, and must be eliminated. The author has combed through the literatures of the world to show the reader how James Frazer's Golden Bough and Cheikh Anta Diop's Civilization or Barbarism inform the discus Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: The Golden Apple Vol. 2 (Paperback)
Publisher: Africa World Press
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1592217664
ISBN 13: 9781592217663
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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EDGAR J. RIDLEY is Chairman of a global management consulting firm, Edgar J. Ridley and Associates. He has published three books, An African Answer: The Key to Global Productivity, Symbolism Revisited - Notes on the Symptomatic Thought Process; and The Golden Apple: Changing the Structure of Civilization - Volume I. His research interest focuses on cognitive semiotics and the effect of symbol systems on the brain's neurological processes as well as the damage that symbol systems have caused to human behavior throughout civilization.

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