"World's oldest lunar calendar" - Mesolithic Lunar Warren Fields Calendar vs Solar Calendar of Neolithic Stonehenge & Irish Newgrange - Selective Attention - Filter - "a" key to personalities, politics & religion: William James, Iain McGilChrist, J B

Selective Attention - Filter: Iain McGilChrist; W James, J Bargh. Neuroscience 1. "Selective attention," also called "selectivity bias"—the tendency to orient oneself toward and process information from only one part of our environment to the exclusion of other parts, no matter how obvious those parts may be." David DiSalvo 2. "Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are!" - Ortega y Gasset 3. "Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world." Iain McGilchrist 4. Neuroscience & Selectivity: "It is argued that selectivity in processing has emerged through evolution as a design feature of a complex multi-channel sensorimotor system, which generates selective phenomena of "attention" as one of many by-products." Lunar Calendar vs Solar Calendar: Selective Attention - Filter: Warren Fields Lunar Calendar: In the context of hunter gatherers, the norm was a lunar calendar Sidhharrth S Kumaar observes, in his article, "The Oldest Calendar in the World" that "In Warren Field, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, a Mesolithic arrangement of twelve pits and an arc are present, which roughly dates about 10,000 years ago, appears to be associated with the lunar calendar Stonehenge and Newgrange solar orientation: C Ruggles observes "authors such as Burl (l987) have emphasized a change from lunar symbolism to solar symbolism, and this could imply that some fundamental changes in ritual practice and tradition accompanied the transition from Stonehenge 2 to Stonehenge 3. New Grange Passage Tomb: "an accurate astronomical alignment = [solar] illumination of burial chamber at mid-winter" "The material record from Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland suggests that astronomical symbolism, in the form of rough alignments upon certain horizon rising and setting positions of the sun or moon, was incorporated into a range of prehistoric ritual monuments at various places and times." The "supernatural concept is by definition outside the scope of scientific inquiry which puts in the category of a "loaded term – Definist Fallacy". The concept of "supernatural is an empty, unscientific and meaningless term – which comes with baggage: "superstitious nonsense"; "intangible-unreal"; "delusions"; etc. Counterpoint to the "supernatural swindle" The spiritual and religious beliefs in animal spirits served to focus "selective attention" on animals which - were a primary source of their sustenance. Ercia Hill, observes arctic hunter gatherer beliefs can perhaps be best "conceptualized as dynamic social behaviors embedded within the context of daily life than as privileged ritual acts"