SECTION 1 - via - School of Visual Arts

Dreaming without lucidity of any kind, without the bio-brain system potential in memory and
cognition for awareness that one has dreamt, no less is dreaming, not distinguishing between
reality and the dream, these are the primitivisms of memory and cognition, operating in and
dominating the psyches of our species earlier stages in bio-brain system evolution. Certainly
this was the case prior to 400,000 years ago.
We can assume that the evolving language in abstraction of Archaic H. sapiens, with the
increased prefrontal-lobe development serving Broca’s area, and less limbic dominance in biobrain
system architecture, that the dream and for that matter all imagining would begin to be
remembered as something separate from the materiality of awake reality.
I argue that despite our post-H. habilis progress in bio-brain system evolution, even with our
species beginning to distinguish our dream and other imagining from reality, that the same
limbic primitivisms in memory and cognition that dominated the less bio-brain system evolved
branches of our family tree, also dominated more or less all succeeding branches through
acculturation.
Research leads me to conclude that acculturation in limbic traditions in cognition, in imitativememe
memory, out of earlier times of minimal prefrontal bio-brain system evolution, from
times before our species H. habilis development of Broca’s area, through some 3 million plus
250,000 years after, from generation to generation, from branch to branch of our species family
tree, has subverted our species progress in abstraction in memory and cognition.
Educational experiments asserting the further potential in abstraction of the chimpanzee,
teaching the chimpanzee to sign confirms this.
The history of our species stasis in fulfillment of the potential in cognition and memory
inherent to each of our stages in bio-brain system evolution bears out the role of culture and
acculturation as the subverting factor. The fact is that through the millions of years of
evolving prefrontalness and potential in abstraction our species has preferred to remain limbic
dominant in memory and cognition, inhibiting development of the inherent potential in
memory and cognition in abstraction of each of our species stages in evolving bio-brain system
hardware.
It is this millions of years of culture and acculturation that today in their continued limbic
dominance, obstructs development of memory and cognition in abstraction and in turn free-will
in intellect.
By placing our species cognition and memory within a larger historic perspective, we can more
clearly separate out the complexity of layers that comprise the limitations and biases in memory
and cognition we continue to impose on ourselves and each other, through the culture and art
we create and experience.
We should remind ourselves daily that our memory and cognition has had this up hill battle
within all our species bio-brain system stages in evolution, since our beginning some 6 million
years ago. It was then that we first took the fork in the road away from our Chimpanzee cousin,
bringing with us in traditions of cognition their memory with all its cultural dead ends.
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