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The purpose of this essay is trying to demonstrate that technology is
not, as it is usually conceived, a product of our intelligence, but that the
opposite is true: namely, that human intelligence is a product of technology.
Following the ideas proposed by Radical Embodied Cognition and
Material Engagement Theory, I will try to show why the concepts of mediation
and media retroaction are useful if we want to understand how
technologies exert their influence on us. Particularly, the aim of the paper
is to present pictures as a case study, by exploring how cave art might have
contributed to the onset of the modern representational human abilities.
In other words, Homo sapiens does not have the ability to paint because
he can create images in his mind, if anything, he can create such pictures
because he has been learning to paint over the course of his evolution.