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2005 : WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT? [1]

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Christine Finn [5]
Archaeologist; Journalist; Author, Artifacts, Past Poetic
Archaeologist; Journalist; Writer-in-Residence, University of Bradford; Author, Past Poetic

I have a belief that modern humans are greatly underutilizing their cognitive capabilities. Finding proof of this, however, would lie in embracing those very same sentient possibilities—visceral hunches—which were possibly part of the world of archaic humans. This enlarged realm of the senses acknowledges reason, but also heeds the grip of the gut, the body poetic.

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