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development in memory and cognition released their imagination into a burst of invention in technology and art that lay in stasis some 60,000 years. So began the conscious awake dreaming, a coherent remembering, a self-conscious possession of things, beyond the ephemeral minds eye. And so here “We” are the last in the struggle with “Nature”, the last to survive it or not, still making external, concrete and permanent what was previously a wisp of thought. It is a history within which my dreams have become the thoughts of our future shouting in my mind. Joanna Schaffhausen in The Dreaming Brain discusses dreams as a way of remembering, a way that itself is remembered or forgotten according to when in the dream cycle one awakens. If we awaken from a dream during the rhythmic hippocampal-REM cycle, there is an 80% chance of remembrance, while only a 7% chance of remembrance if we awaken during the non-rem cycle. This makes sense considering that dreaming is in its bio-brain and cognitive-process, brain stem, thalamus, auditory cortex dominant, abstraction and objectivity in process in memory are inhibited unless the dreamer is educated to lucid-dreaming, to abstraction and objectivity in dream process and dream memory. In other words the Rem dreaming cycle is sensoryemotional-bodyfelt-limbic-dominant in process and memory. Within their limited bio-brain architecture one could imagine our cognitive and bio-brain limbic-dominant earliest Hominid and archaic-Sapiens ancestors reality dominated by the cognitive-processes we associate with unlucid dreaming with its inherent potential for error in cognition and remembering. We can extend this process of error to their recall if at all of only fragments of their dream memories, with fragments remembered as a reality. Their awake thinking, experience and remembering must have been much like that of the dream lacking as much lucidity. I believe that is the case generally in the present, not only are we not lucid dreamers, we are not lucid thinkers. I argue that it is due to acculturation, to educations failure, that despite our, as Sapiens-Sapiens, bio-brain-evolution, having for some hundred thousand years now the biobrain-architecture with its prefrontal-lobe-system-development 6 times greater than that of the chimpanzee, our memory, our imagining, our dreams, our art and culture are still trapped in the ancient past of our unlucid limbic-cognition. We have the abstract-cognitive potential to all become lucid-dreamers, to abstract-cognitively engage and direct our dreams to higher-purpose, beyond their limbic driven and directed cognition, with its inherent retributiveness. As lucid dreamers we can apply the same memory, cognitive and art skills to develop the ability to have a lucid relation to reality, moving it through lucidity in memory and cognition to higher purpose. But rather than strive for lucidity, we Sapiens-Sapiens since our surviving the some 15 previous now extinct branches of our species family tree, have for some 30,000 years of generations socially-engineered a failure of cognition and memory within our larger society. We have in this history of limbic-retributiveness created classifications of cast, class, race, religion, gender, age, ethnicity, criminality and sexual identity, that in their bias in justice and their biased empowerment of intellect, engineered within a socially constructed survival of the fittest, 36
institutional frameworks and laws that have deprived most Sapiens-Sapiens on this planet of an unbiased justice and an abstract-cognitive development, that will make possible a free-will in intellect, that could authentically serve to achieve and safe guard a governance that in its higher purpose affirms life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Something was not bio-brain system right from the beginning, an ancient, archaic imperfection, a limbic-system which through acculturation is easily conditioned to dominance in cognition over even our present stage in evolution in potential in abstraction. The first case study of feralchildren should have made clear the danger of a limbic-acculturations compromise to our development in and dominance of abstraction in memory and cognition. It is within the cognitive dynamics of our species ancient bio-brain system imperfection that we better understand all our notions of our species potential in free-will. That’s right free-will, meaning free-will in intellect is only a potential built into our bio-brain system, that fails when it is limbic-system dominated, compromising any potential to transcend the limbic-systems limbic-logic, with the later pre-frontal systems potential in abstraction, objectivity and free-will in intellect. Even through all our many millions of years in evolution, no matter the degree of prefrontal development, and development of its inherent potential in abstraction the outcome has been the same, our semantics, all transporter-devices of cognition and memory, all creativity, all thought, imagining and behavior have been organized to serve the limbic-system with its inherent retributive-logic, continuing our species most cognitively primitive history in retributive-reconciliation. From the time of our species branching off of the missing-link that branched off of our Chimpanzee beginnings, our species in imitation of the Chimpanzee culture have over our first 4 million years progressed little beyond the Chimpanzee world of limbic-phobic-logic with its inherent retributive-reconciliation. Keep in mind that it was 2 million years ago wielding a gazelle leg bone that we began bashing skulls, killing everything that stirred our rage, our fear and fed our hunger, including each other. So to what purpose then the progress in bio-brain system architecture, and its inherent potential to create thoughts and imaginings if all the potential would do is serve our culture out of 4 million years of animal-reflexive retributive-reconciling. It is within our species history and continued potential in and for animal-reflexive retributivereconciling that H. habilis drove all its predecessor cousins to extinction, as did each succeeding branch of our family tree, until us Sapiens Sapiens who similarly exterminated the branches that preceded us. Its safe to say war invaded our species as a semantic reality 2 million years ago, and since that time to the present evolved in its semantic intelligence in limbic-retribution from gazelle thigh bone to all sought of weapons of mass destruction, including outer-space satellite launchable ballistic multiple warhead nuclear missiles. 37
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SEWING PLANTS: THE INTERTWINED HIST
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colleges for women. And there were
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Lang, L. (2001, January/February).
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difficult to find a full reconcilia
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6. COLLABORATION Quite by accident
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and Amsterdam. But the focus is on
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EXHIBITING 9-11: A HISTORIOGRAPHY L
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Batchen also points out that many m
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access to ground zero has not only
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PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH DOCUMENTATION A
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Representation” in the late 1990s
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MERITORIOUS OR MERETRICIOUS Jacquel
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Images which once glimpsed pierce o
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humans who sometimes against great
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national and international exhibiti
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whether a thing is good or bad, ful
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REMEMBERING RABINDRANATH TAGORE Mar
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of curios which mostly are delusion
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MONUMENTS IN MINIMALISM: SAFELY UNI
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font, in tight grid-like formation,
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ead. 8 Only when the beautiful soul
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FROM IDEALISM TO TOTALITARIANISM: T
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characterized various ancient civil
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TEACHING ART EDUCATION IN A STUDIO
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artworks motivate and inspire stude
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