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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;OldGoldGuy, post: 2137540, member: 72697&quot;]The programming in humans to flock towards a sparkle or shine is a real thing. I am not debating that, I am telling you a fact. Look it up. It was a mechanism that allowed our ancestors to pinpoint water on a horizon. In fact, I think they reference a study about this concept in the documentary Discover Channel did on gold mining. When I have a minute I will find that part and post it as it </p><p><br /></p><p>I also think you would be hard pressed to find any quality or behavior that is uniform across all cultures except the desire for food, water and shelter. So naming one example of a culture that does not, or did not at one point in time value gold, disproves nothing. </p><p><br /></p><p>But you did prove my point in your statement. The SPARKLE, the SHINE certainly did get noticed, and in turn, that gold got picked up by the Indians in your example. However, being uneducated and finding no immediate uses to their primitive needs, they tossed it. But they sure as heck saw it glimmer and grabbed it. I believe you are confusing or extrapolating an incorrect conclusion with the comment about tinfoil hoarding. I really don&#039;t know how to explain it better. When early humans were crossing some plains with hungry animals stalking them, dehydrated and hungry, that sparkle on the horizon indicated water. Not gold. It is the sparkle that signaled a place where they could stick their face in the ground and drink some ebola infested water and live a little longer till that hungry beast caught up with them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The learned aspect is as you said in your last paragraph, todays youth know that the gold is valuable, maybe they don&#039;t know why, but they know they can get a whole lot of dope, or video games, or whatever with it. </p><p><br /></p><p>If we were able to do an experiment with a perfect group that has been untainted by modern values, we could prove this idea that humans are wired to like gold. If you put a child in a room with a few marbles, some made of gold, some made of a dull black plastic, I guarantee you the vast majority would choose the gold ones to play with, keep, etc. Knowing nothing of metallurgy, economics, etc, the only reason left would be that it is &quot;different&quot; or &quot;special&quot;. Is it different or special, who cares? The point is, the gold marbles would disappear first. I was actually able to loosely test this just now with my son, an infant. He unquestionably crawls towards the shinier object when given a choice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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