Talk:Mind map/Archives/2017

Origin

As an anthropologist I doubt very much that categorizing and structuring concepts have really started with Aristoteles. But maybe we could make a collection of mind mapping or concept mapping of before Christ. If you look at Farao Egypt ancient encryption And Aborigina concepts are mabybe 60.000 years old. They didnt have wrtings with fonetic words but did use symbols. And apparently those symbols in paintings were explaining all kinds of complex dynamics or idea's or stories.

On Wikipedia it says the first writing 3500 BC. (but Aboriginal is much older.) it depends on when you call something writing. Because non-fonetic languages like chinese are using symbols and that can become more complex. Also deaf language is without semantics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing#/media/File:Tableta_con_trillo.png people started carving or painting things, and immediately in the oldest thing found so far, you see the people drawing things in boxes, and that some things belonged together and other things belonged in another box. And that this was so importaint they spend hours to capture this idea into something lasting. Like carving stones or wood or a rockwall. Or graves. They are trying to tell us not just literally things but also concepts and structures and how things are intertwined etc.

It is rediculous to say Aristotle invented this. You can say it was taboe to droodle things in our culture it was considered dumn and primitive, until respected people started doing it in a sofisticated way with abstract thought. But if you take a good look at primitive art you see they were doing it al the time: and there is a whole world of meaning behind all those symbols. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.52.211.106 (talk) 09:59, 7 June 2017 (UTC)