I am urgently fascinated by an eccentric topic: the evolution of human consciousness. While this tree has endless branches, there are two that are fascinatingly distinct, and yet strangely covalent. You see, we each undergo a ‘local version’ of the evolution of consciousness throughout our lives, playing ‘catch up’ with the present cultural conservations of historical landmarks and catastrophes. Both. So we are each undergoing a peculiar recapitulation or ‘unique re-enactment’ of the entire history of the evolution of consciousness. Some of the more precocious of us are unsatisfied with playing catch-up, and intend to raise the bar beyond the conservations of culture or language. Some of these persons end up understood as malignant, others as altruistic — according to who is doing the asking and for what purposes.
In a sense, our minds are undergoing evolutionary (and devolutionary, inhibitive or symptomatic) process all the time, and (if we allow this metaphor) we can see that the rate of transformation over time is incredibly rapid in minds when compared to speciation in nature.
These two branches, what we can learn of the history of human minds, language, and thought, and what we can remember of our own developmental encounters with cultural conservations and progeny of these histories give us a wonderful binocularity, presuming that we are in some way able to adequately…
