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"all three cognitive processes critical to making art (the mental conception of an image, intentional communication, and the attribution of meaning) were present in the early human mind. however, thanks to the rapid evolution of language between 60000 and 40000 years ago, they began to function together, thereby creating a new cognitive process we call 'visual symbolism' or simply 'art'."