SECTION 1 - via - School of Visual Arts

This is a description of some 4 million years of our species memory process prior to the
evolutionary development of Broca’s and Wernick’s areas, that gift of creations artfulness giving
memory the bio-brain potential to take a very different route than that of autonomic-memory,
extending memory to a sematic complexity through abstraction never before possible.
Steven Pinker describes our species 2 million years ago new potential in memory and cognition
within a bio-brain system flow that pretty much describes what I point to as the root of our
species inherent limitation within all succeeding stages of evolution in potential in cognition
and memory. Pinker describes a bio-brain system that I argue since then as our species heritage
in bio-brain system wiring, has built into it a potential in memory and cognition that in its
processes of logic is still vulnerable to limbic-system dominance. The problem as I keep
pointing out is that the logic of the limbic system is tilted to fabrication and retributiveness.
It is within this inherent limitation that I argue there is a need for a dominance of the prefrontal
system, a dominance of abstraction and free-will in intellect in memory and cognition,
with intention to de-construction of all limbic retributive-logic in ‘truth’ in memory and
cognition.
His description of the addition to our species bio-brain system of Broca’s area, with the few
other added “verbal-twiddlers,” makes clear the bio-brain structural progress in evolution until
then, explaining the pathways of limbic influences on our processes in communications,
memory and cognition.
Here is how Howard Bloom describes it: Quoting Steven Pinkers, from his book Language of
Instinct, published by Willian Morrow, New York, 1994 :
They (memories) slide back to the curved prongs of the hippocampus, which flip them forward
to the cortexes of the temporal lobes, accessible to manipulators like Broca’s area and two other
verbal twiddlers which emerged in early Homo habilis—the supramarginal and angular gyri.
I mean you don’t have to jump up and down about it, but “holy-mackerel” it took 4 million
years for our species to acquire enough prefrontal and language-system-architecture. To despite
the still bio-brain dominance by its limbic-system, and despite the new additions being
compelled by the still limbic dominant architecture and acculturated cognition of our species,
finally, finally dreams and imaginings had the potential to begin to become objective thought.
That means less error, less fabrication, thought and consciousness of thought could begin to
have veracity, intention in reality could be a more solid-concrete thing. Thoughts had the
potential for a more complex semantic, making possible a limbic-logic-narrative bridge
between the bodyfelt and emotional mind, creating the cognitive bases in reality for scripted
story telling and acted-out-dreams which anthropologists have come to call ritual. It was the
beginnings of a consciousness in behavior absent till then.
Our species evolution in consciousness to Sapiens Sapiens, is best understood within our
evolution in bio-brain system because it is within that evolution of flesh, within its inherent
potential in consciousness, that our potential as Sapiens Sapiens exists. As we look back over
our evolution of some 6 million years, what we encounter is an ever de-evolving of memory and
cognition, an ever increasing dominance in behavior and culture in limbic-retributiveness.
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