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Transform said:
There were some levels of organised society many thousands of years before the Romans arrived in Great Britain. Numerous Roman roads (but not all of them, obviously) were built on pre-existing trackways. Megalithic earthworks also tell a tale of organised human society, if not civilisation, on a considerable scale. (I'd highly recommend a visit to Silbury Hill and Avebury to ponder this point.)
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In this sense, see what I was saying too about the Iberian peninsula: despite the optimal environment, in most of the peninsula except for the Greek-influenced (and later Punic-influenced) areas the degree of development was similar to that in Great Britain.
 
blig-blug said:
There are examples that show that urbanism was a possibility but not a necessity. For example, in the Iberian peninsula the first cities were coastal Greek colonies in the Mediterranean coast, and only those peoples in close contact with the Greek colonists built cities. Cities only became widespread after the Roman conquest. The climate allowed for it as well as in Italy or Greece, and yet it didn't happen until it was forced by a conqueror.
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It became a necessity by virtue of proximity. That's how urbanization spreads.

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I would say my original idea that a change in the DMN led to a more constricted or logical view on reality is true.
We need more right hemisphere here: create and express.

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blig-blug said:
In this sense, see what I was saying too about the Iberian peninsula: despite the optimal environment, in most of the peninsula except for the Greek-influenced (and later Punic-influenced) areas the degree of development was similar to that in Great Britain.
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I'd highly recommend Julian Cope's book, " The Megalithic European", for a wide-ranging overview of these structures.
 
Voidmatrix said:
Oh! My bad! I didn't mean to say cold singularly promoted civilization. It's an observation of difference based on cold and heat. But that cognitive effects of cold can lead to different ways of thought that lead to complete different ways of living and developing.
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Then I misunderstood, sorry for my tangent. And yes, that's very true. Even between different cultures that spread through different temperature regions. For example, northern China vs. southern China.

Voidmatrix said:
It became a necessity by virtue of proximity. That's how urbanization spreads.
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Yes, that's what I meant to say too. An urban civilization appearing without external influence is something very rare that has just happened a handful of times in a handful of places. Most of the rest depends in good part of how well it could spread from those initial hotspots.

Transform said:
I'd highly recommend Julian Cope's book, " The Megalithic European", for a wide-ranging overview of these structures.
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Sounds very interesting, thank you for the recommendation. Where I am right now there are many dolmens and menhirs. Some of the dolmens were transformed into shepherds' huts (who knows how long ago).

northape said:
I would say my original idea that a change in the DMN led to a more constricted or logical view on reality is true.
We need more right hemisphere here: create and express.
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I agree. It's a matter of balance, and right now we're very unbalanced towards one of the sides.
 
A much more important question would be how to rebalance our system and get some capacity back?
Psychedelics, meditation, heat/cold exposure, fasting, exercising, social and nature activities, and diet - the list is endless.
 
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