Paleoanthropology of Consciousness, Culture and Oral Language

Abstract

It is presented an updated version of my previous paleoanthropological interpretation of the available utilitarian and non-utilitarian Paleolithic finds (Messori 2016), aimed at establishing the earliest human developmental stages of consciousness, culture and oral language. The environmental transformations to which Earth has gone to meet from its formation to the Archean period of the Precambrian Era, during which the terrestrial proto-biological phenomenon develops, are briefly discussed. By following the quantum elec-and independent psychic complex called epigenetic function of the real, or consciousness, the essential requirement for there to be a fully established cultural production. The slow process that went from a musically established sound emission (second half of Lower Paleolithic), to a fully syntactical and semantics codification of a suitably emitted and articulated range of sounds, that through time became speech communication, namely oral language (first half of Middle Paleolithic), is discussed. The slow process to which oral language has gone from acquiring the power to re-create the world by naming it-semantic baptism-as an act of legitimation of reality (Upper Paleolithic), to becoming an instrument of power in the hands of the male gender (Neolithic), which thanks to it tames Nature and subjugates the generatrix power of women's uterus (where the pneuma is transmuted into offspring by which the progeny is re-created) to the generatrix power of oro-larynx (where the pneuma is transmuted into speech by which the World is re-created), is also discussed.

Near Death Experiences: Falling Down a Very Deep Well

“…Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance (…) If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change. Carl Gustav Jung 54 The hypothesis of a life beyond death is a subject that fascinates and torments humanity since human beings began to maintain a relationship of contiguity with the world (psychological birth) [44].…”

“…The model I am going to apply to advance an explanation of MBS and consciousness, namely Tenso-Relational Model [44], it stems from applying my previous Endo-Dynamo-Tensive Model [45] to the hypothesis independently developed by me [46] [47] [48] [49] and by Sá-Nogueira Saraiva [50] [51] on the phylogenetic scenario that led to the settling of a distinct and relatively auto-Open Access Library Journal nomous neuro-psychological identity of the human being, i.e. to the settling of an I/Me vs Other than I/Me, and from adopting an approach to the interpretation of mind phenomena which rests on a framework outlined by multidisciplinary contributions, such as Ilya Prigonine's Complexity Theory [52], Luigi Fantappiè's Unified Theory of the Physical and Biological World [53] As I discussed in [45], the establishment of a physical dimension based on a relational dynamicit arises as a consequence of a cosmogonic event, namely the supra-liminal self-perturbation (tensorial symmetry breaking) of a primary, irriducible and intrinsically dynamic state of tension (Implicated Endo-Dynamo-Tensive State 20 ), cosmologically assumed as the physical background from which emerge all the differences in potential, all the interactions or forces and all the physical and psychical relationships.…”

“…Sylvan Muldoon, The Projection of the Astral Body, 1929 An OBE [98] [99] [100] can be defined as the presence of the following three phenomenological elements [16]: the feeling of being outside one's physical body (or disembodiment); the presence of a distanced and elevated visuo-spatial perspective (or perspective); and the seeing of one's own body ( In this regard, see e.g [102]. 44 The traditional date of birth of Christ is 1 AD, reconstructed, but incorrectly, by Dionysius the Little (around 523 AD), and then adopted as the beginning of the Christian era by the monk Bede the Venerable in 725 AD. Most historians, however, believe that Christ's birth date should be 4 -7 years earlier than that calculated by Dionysius the Little, going back to 7 -6 BC, that is, before the death of Herod the Great, in accordance with the Gospel narrative according to which the Child is born when Herod is still alive, so as to enable him to order the massacre of the innocents (Matthew 3, 16).…”

“…Phylogenetically, as I discussed in[18] [44], through Nervous Tissue (NT) andNervous System (NS) the organism may develop the ability to interface biunivocally the territory of tension with the territory of energy, so as to give way to new relational and adaptive strategies (new compared to the non or pre-neurological relational and adaptive strategies). In this sense, NT-NS as a unit is a selective interface between the two territories, energy ↔ tension, and the original function assigned by cell differentiation to nerve cells is receptorial and meta-physical (of interfacing between one plan and the other of reality): that is, NT and the NS, regardless of the number of anatomical/functional units (neurons, glial cells and the like) involved, are condensed (fermionic) systems specialized in interfacing the Exited Tension-Gradients Distribution (ET-GD) with the Exited Energy Quanta-Gradients Distribution (EEQ-GD), and viceversa, for adaptive purposes.…”

“…As for Western thought, the most emblematic example of such specious approach is given by the Christological approach to the worldwide mythological hierophany of resurrection43 :Between the sixth and the ninth hour of 14 of Nisan, Hebrew year 3791, that is between midday and three o'clock PM of 7 April of 30 D.C. (Christian year), it gets dark over the whole Earth. At the age of 36 -37 Jesus of Nazareth44 , the Man43…”