> Let's take a look way, way back at what Greg actually suggested.
>
> "So first, recognizing food is not simple. But the important point
is that
> they were INCAPABLE of knowing or Understanding this--and many
other
> things--before the magic and subsequent teaching had raised their
> consciousness to the knowledge."
>
> Yep. Looks like brain damage to me. Whether induced magically
(eating the
> wrong root), mythically (do a HQ that trades brains for the
ability to
> digest anything), or whatever, what they'd lost was the ability to
> understand things. And the missionaries, somehow, gave it back to
them.
Actually I think that they were INCAPABLE of knowing or Understanding this--and many other things for spiritual or magical reasons, not impaired intellect, which I think is Jeff's point.
I think that just because you can infer something, it doesn't mean that it is the explanation.
Regards
Rob
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