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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip
These themes, in order, are: be, have, think, feel, will, analyse, balance, desire, see, use, know, believe.
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Let me just offer a few sort of universalistic critiques. On this first point, I don't think that all languages necessarily have those distinctions, so it's not a universal human phenomenon. Japanese does not have native words for "will" or "analyze" or "believe." They are all borrowed from Chinese. So those are probably not universal concepts.
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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip
through the signs of winter and autumn and descend through the signs of summer and spring.
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Here again, the four seasons of the temperate zones are not universal human phenomena either. There are places on earth where you have the rainy seasons and the little dry season and big dry season.
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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip
I have no way to prove that these themes are meaningful except by reference to mythology, showing how this cosmology provides a way to interpret the evolution of culture, and by elaboration of a possible scientific-mathematical model, as in the diagram above.
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And here, I think you are talking about cycles, but I think the evolution of culture is much too complicated to be able to fit into a pattern. While it's true that there are events that stand out, often it's biased. In the West, people often see the Roman empire as a big deal, but don't look too carefully at what was happening on the Indian subcontinent or in China, which in terms of population were just as important. So while I applaud the effort, I think it is probably a very difficult quest.