Hi Rollo, Nice to hear. Memes as "the cultural counterpart of genes" seem to speak of momentum, inertia of vested interest, belief in the larger systems -- law, government, internet, and economy. Free enterprise/capitalism thrives on consumption -- and so increasing population -- for profi...

Well put, indeed. Thus far science has taken life to be no more than an accident of nature. Today, however, it appears that life is nothing less than an integral evolving agency of the larger cosmic creativity; an agency with choices to make that will sustain or defeat the process (and our species) ...

Further to my above discussion, in a universe naturally self-organizing (Kauffman) and with the emergence of subjective conscious mind (Jaynes) having essentially boundless creative potential as the integral agent of that cosmic process, and where "big bang" simply represents the emergence...

Hi Tinkus,
Give it a try. Glad for any comments.
Joe

Emergence of the Subjective In more detail of my last post, the development of the bicameral brain was naturally selected as a result of the increasing internal complexity of organic systems and resulting isolation from access to external nutrients via the usual deterministic processes such as absor...

Hi Kaori, Bicamerality isn't just a psychological status, but denotes brain structure. Earliest bicamerality (as a brain structure) appeared some 365 m years ago in the Hylonomus, long before man and language. It seems to serve the basic essentials of analysis and synthesis, teamed with memory, that...

Hi Kaori, No expert here, but OC has been food for years of thought. Bicamerality would seem to have existed as the early state prior to language and its utility for extending social organization/cooperation. What Jaynes describes so well is, to me, a critical moment in the development of the larger...