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“To the extent that we are dealing with genuine anthropology and not mere human biology, meta-anthropology and anthropology are one and the same. Once again we encounter a variant of Chomsky’s association of the human with recursion , which is also the paradoxical basis of the impossibility of a fully rational “science of the human” as we can conceive it in the case of the natural world, including the biological. The scene of human creation is indeed the model for the human scene in general. Whether having been created by a sacred being, or having learned to create itself under the aegis of the sacred, humanity is constantly creating itself anew. Generative anthropology has at last provided us with a plausible model of this originary creation. Let us hope the world will survive long enough to take advantage of it. Enjoy this column? Yes No Δ”

— Eric Gans, The Creation · Saturday, June 11th, 2022 · Chronicles of Love & Resentment