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Although the following image was used as part of a discussion involving the development of enumeration, let me add it to the present discussion involving the evolutionary development of the human psyche in which the idea of Consciousness aligned with a 1-2-3 biological development. In the present case let us ask if the different models of humans created along the assembly line of the R & D (research and development) section of Evolution were incorporated with different types of consciousness modules, just as one might encounter a development of rudimentary pull-string, push-button, or squeezable language phrases. Like an assembly line of different doll models, is this how humanity has come into being? By an ever newer lineup of workers that come to replace those who have been retired, and thus a new set of eyes, talents, and inspirations come into play? It is a simple analogy for those who have ever worked on an assembly line were some R & D facilitation is incorporated, and not some stuck-with-one-design factory that must adapt to changing times or find themselves producing a non-viable product.
Every person needs to have some experience with assembly line production, if even to find out that such situations are not their "cup of tea". Yes, it is monotonous. And yes, mistakes are made along with people not showing up for work and others have to do more than one job and even work multiple shifts. Does Evolution work like this as well? Are there "down" times due to late production materials, power outages, holidays and the like? Can we look at assembly line productions and their generation as a model of Evolution taking place in terms of actual biological domains, or is the analogy taken too far... due either to a mismatch or a lack of imagination on the part of those doing the examination?
Can we actually look upon the entire lineage of humanity and say the products were not instilled with a different model of consciousness, regardless of an the idea of having underlying basic program one might want to interject from their experiences with computer language. Can you actually say with great confidence that consciousness is a singular entity like a supposed "language module" though it can have different contours of expressiveness we label as dialects or a different language developed in different environments, though the underlying physiology is unchanged? Is there no difference, even though in terms of language we might well say that earlier models of humans did not have the physiology for work production? Was it a matter of change in lungs, vocal cords, and/or tongue, not to mention jaw structure; and not merely a change in brain development?
How can you possibly begin to study a subject such as Psychology and not think of developmental biology as a conveyor/assembly line of increasing complexity; with human physiology not only dependent on the process, but is a product of its incorporated twists, turns, alternations, and returns to the drawing board, as well as being pulled off the assembly line to be checked by a system of quality control? In fact, is the human use of the assembly line/conveyor belt system of development a projection of that which it was subjected to over millions of years? Is the assembly line model of production simply a mirror-imaging reflection of an evolutionary experience?
Let us look at a definition of the production line which may alternatively be labeled an assembly line:
Assembly line... (an) industrial arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers for continuous flow of work-pieces in mass-production operations.
The design for an assembly line is determined by analyzing the steps necessary to manufacture each product component as well as the final product. All movement of material is simplified, with no cross flow, backtracking, or repetitious procedure. Work assignments, numbers of machines, and production rates are programmed so that all operations along the line are compatible.
Automated assembly lines consist entirely of machines run by machines, with little or no human supervision. In such continuous-process industries as petroleum refining and chemical manufacture and in many modern automobile—engine plants, assembly lines are completely mechanized and consist almost entirely of automatic, self-regulating equipment.
Many products, however, are still assembled by hand because many component parts are not easily handled by machines. Expensive and somewhat inflexible, automatic assembly machines are economical only if they produce a high level of output. However, the development of versatile machinery and the increased use of industrial robots have improved the efficiency of fully automated assembly operations.
Source: "assembly line." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.
An automated production line consists of a series of workstations connected by a transfer system to move parts between the stations. This is an example of fixed automation, since these lines are typically set up for long production runs, perhaps making millions of product units and running for several years between change=overs. Each station is designed to perform a specific processing operation, so that the part or product is constructed stepwise as it progresses along the line. A raw work part enters at one end of the line, proceeds through each workstation, and emerges at the other end as a completed product. In the normal operation of the line, there is a work part being processed at each station, so that many parts are being processed simultaneously and a finished part is produced with each cycle of the line. The various operations, part transfers, and other activities taking place on an automated transfer line must all be sequenced and coordinated properly for the line to operate efficiently. Modern automated lines are controlled by programmable logic controllers, which are special computers that facilitate connections with industrial equipment (such as automated production lines) and can perform the kinds of timing and sequencing functions required to operate such equipment.
Source: "automation." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.
The above references are being used to describe both consciousness and Evolution, though the development of every subject could likewise be considered as a type of dynamic "process"... and yet, in describing the process there is an inclination to resort to ideas which replicate superstitions, albeit with the adopted terminology of a give subject that has been whitewashed of its earlier declarations and disseminations made by those advancing some theological mindset. What a terrible legacy the human mind must forge its way in order to ford (cross over) the many gulfs idiocy which have thrived because of religion, spirituality and associated magical thinking linked with mysticism, myth, and childish metaphysics which all of us apparently play a part in, despite our attempts at objectivity and an attempted clarity of description so that at least one researcher will not grovel about in a search for a greater truth as if they have little more to go on but the flickering of shadows on cave walls which echo sounds which sound like the voices of a previous time but modern science nonetheless indulges in a pastime of description with terms appropriate to a given era's efforts of investigating similar phenomena of the human psyche.
Psychology, Philosophy, Mathematics, Astronomy, Linguistics, Medicine, Anthropology, Archeology, Biology, Journalism, Economics, Architecture, Sports, Music, Art, etc., read like a list of parts to be assembled... many of which do become incorporated in different ways in the minds of multiple humans. Indeed, the trend is for everyone to acknowledge that they incorporate many different bits of information from multiple subjects called a cross-discipline approach to investigation and formulaic algorithm creation; whereas in former times is was an activity that took place but no one spoken openly of it, as if it were some secret means of being more knowledgeable than others and thereby viewed as someone more intelligent, more wise, or more experienced... and in possession of some rare talent or giftedness... though in fact it meant simply that a person had come to terms with allowing themselves to experience the contours of perceptions with the different vocabularies of different subjects, along with associated patterns that a person would visually/intellectually mix and match like an artist, magician, musician, or "alternative/free thinkers".
The different subjects reveal not only how fragmented the human mind can be on its own, but how it can be molded by the assembly line called an Education system which actually doesn't know what product to create, other than some basic standard that is then set out into the wilds of society to be further fashioned by whatever conditions the person ends up in. What a stupid system it is that we call freedom. Freedom is the name of a stupid conveyor belt system of development usually attached to some political, religious or other commercialized narrative of exploitation. Show me the name of a political, religious or commercial system and I will show you the label of superstitious nonsense people are forced into believing is the right way, the good way, the proper way, the best truth that can be had under the circumstances.... which are contrivances.
If we want to suggest that this thing we call consciousness has a basic structure incorporated into all sentient creatures whose physiology and later experiences cultivates/molds the "lump of clay" according to the nutrients provided by prevailing conditions, the recurring situation of illnesses, diseases, injuries and malnutrition need to be taken into account. In the following excerpt we find a reference to some Neanderthals having suffered severe starvation in childhood:
Saccopastore skulls: two Neanderthal fossils found in 1929 and 1935 in a river deposit on the bank of a small tributary of the Tiber River outside Rome. The skulls, which represent an early phase in the development of western European Neanderthals, are between 70,000 and 100,000 years old.
The strong development of the arched browridges, the moderate-sized cheek teeth and large front teeth, and the long, low, and rounded braincase are all characteristic of Neanderthals. The skulls also exhibit prominent lesions on the teeth, indicating periods of severe starvation during childhood. ("Saccopastore skulls." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.)
Some questions to be asked is whether this situation of starvation was more pronounced in all of Early hominid populations or whether the few who experienced early and prolonged starvation contributed to the gene pool by way of having children. The reason for such an inclusion of information in the discussion is not only to wonder if all of present humanity is a product of such traumas (leading into the idea of genealogical psychology), and whether it is these which humanity must deliberately design a system of education and nutrition in order to overcome and thus push ourselves into an awaiting potentiality of developing a 3rd consciousness.
In the following illustration of skulls, let us ask if we agree that the development of consciousness preceded the development of not only religion, but also how to count, write and perhaps even think, instead of acting out of mere impulse and instinct. By establishing an order of origination, one can then tell religious ideologies to jump in a lake and not try to control the definition of consciousness by turning it into a discussion of morality. Likewise for philosophers wanting to turn all topics into a philosophy-only relevance with which to engage in some peripatetic circularity... as might have been the scene typical of ancient philosophers mulling about a group engaged in various discussions.
The idea of a consciousness can exist in just about any way you care to define it... with limitations contoured to a given belief which may include notions of limitlessness, though such views also express the parameters of a biologically-based system of cognitive activity corresponding to one's experiences (which includes education... self taught or otherwise) and era of occurrence. You could also live without having any knowledge about a thing called consciousness, just as millions of people in the past lived without a knowledge of electricity, radio, television, cell phones, pre-packaged food, vehicles, etc... You can even believe the planet Earth is flat and the Sun revolves around the Earth. You can even attribute some particularity about yourself as having a god-directed reason such as those who claim they have lived a long time because (a) God has a specialized plan for them to continue contributing to humanity. Many superstitions and superstitious-like leanings exist in everyone. It is difficult not to have one or more superstitious inclinations when all of humanity has a history of such indulgences... many of which are adopted as laws and traditional observations... and all of them are made from imagination.
One idea just like one way of life can become disrupted if it meets an obstacle, like early primitives coming upon a body of water that they do not have any previous experience for contemplating the reason for its presence nor its origination. And yet, one can live near a body of water and never think that it has an origin and then strive to find it. Let us take for example the Nile River, the Amazon river, or the Mississippi river. Historical records reveal to us that it was those of some European blood line that took efforts to seek out the origin of such rivers. While there may have been indigenous people who did likewise, we do not have a record of such, even though some no doubt participated in such journeys of discovery. The same goes for exploration of forests, mountains and deserts. Here is an excerpt about the discovery of the Nile. If one reads the entire article it is reminiscent of the attempts by humanity to understand consciousness by seeing out its origin:
The ancient Egyptians were probably familiar with the Nile as far as Khartoum, Sudan, and with the Blue Nile as far as its source in Lake Tana, Ethiopia, but they showed little or no interest in exploring the White Nile. The source of the Nile was unknown to them. The Greek historian Herodotus, who visited Egypt in 457 BCE, traveled up the Nile as far as the first cataract (Aswa-n). About the 2nd century BCE the Greek scientific writer Eratosthenes sketched a nearly correct route of the Nile to Khartoum, showing the two Ethiopian affluents, and suggested lakes as the source of the river.
In 25 BCE the Greek geographer Strabo and a Roman governor of Egypt, Aelius Gallus, also explored the Nile as far as the first cataract. A Roman expedition to find the source of the Nile that took place in 66 CE, during the reign of the emperor Nero, was impeded by the Al-Sudd, and the attempt was therefore abandoned. Ptolemy, the Greek astronomer and geographer who lived in Alexandria, wrote in 150 CE that the White Nile originated in the high snow-covered “Mountains of the Moon” (since identified with the Ruwenzori Range).
From the 17th century onward several attempts were made to explore the Nile. In 1618 Pedro Páez, a Spanish Jesuit priest, located the source of the Blue Nile. In 1770 the Scottish explorer James Bruce visited Lake Tana as well as the source of the Blue Nile.
Modern exploration of the Nile basin began with the conquest of the northern and central Sudan by the Ottoman viceroy of Egypt, Muh.ammad ?Ali-, and his sons from 1821 onward. As a result of this, the Blue Nile was known as far as its exit from the Ethiopian foothills and the White Nile as far as the mouth of the Sobat River. Three expeditions under a Turkish officer, Selim Bimbashi, were made between 1839 and 1842, and two got to the point about 20 miles (32 km) beyond the present port of Juba, where the country rises and rapids make navigation very difficult. After these expeditions, traders and missionaries penetrated the country and established stations in the southern Sudan. From an Austrian missionary, Ignaz Knoblecher, in 1850 came reports of lakes farther south. In the 1840s the missionaries Johann Ludwig Krapf, Johannes Rebmann, and Jacob Erhardt, traveling in East Africa, saw the snow-topped mountains Kilimanjaro and Kenya and heard from traders of a great inland sea that might be a lake or lakes.
These reports led to fresh interest in the Nile source and to an expedition by the English explorers Sir Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke, who followed a trade route of the Arabs from the east coast and reached Lake Tanganyika. On the return journey Speke went north and reached the southern end of Lake Victoria, which he thought might be the origin of the Nile. This was followed in 1860 by another expedition by Speke and James A. Grant under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society. They followed the previous route to Tabora and then turned toward Karagwe, the country west of Lake Victoria. There they saw the Virunga Mountains 100 miles to the west (they thought that these might be the Mountains of the Moon) and discovered the Kagera River. Continuing around the lake, Speke finally reached the Ripon Falls (1862), at which point he wrote, “I saw that old Father Nile without any doubt rises in Victoria Nyanza.” Speke then made his way northward with Grant, for part of the way traveling along the Nile, until the two reached Gondokoro, which lies nearly opposite the present Juba. They heard rumours on the way of another large lake to the west but were unable to visit it and passed the information on to Sir Samuel White Baker, who met them at Gondokoro, having come up from Cairo. Baker then continued his journey south and discovered Lake Albert. Neither Speke nor Baker had followed the Nile completely from the Ripon Falls to Gondokoro, and Baker, who saw the northern half of Lake Albert, was told that it extended a very long way to the south.
The question of the source of the Nile was finally settled when, between 1874 and 1877, Gen. Charles George Gordon and his officers followed the river and mapped part of it. In particular, Lake Albert was mapped, and Charles Chaillé-Long, an American, discovered Lake Kyoga. In 1875 Henry Morton Stanley traveled up from the east coast and circumnavigated Lake Victoria. His attempt to get to Lake Albert was not successful, but he marched to Lake Tanganyika and traveled down the Congo River to the sea. In another memorable journey, in 1889, taken in order to relieve the German traveler Mehmed Emin Pasha, Stanley traveled up the Congo and across to Lake Albert, where he met Emin and persuaded him to evacuate his Equatorial Province, which had been invaded by the Mahdist forces. They returned to the east coast by way of the Semliki valley and Lake Edward, and Stanley saw the snowy peaks of the Ruwenzori Range for the first time.
Source: "Nile River." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.
Authors:
- Harold Edwin Hurst; Hydrological Consultant, Ministry of Irrigation, Egypt; Director General, Physical Department, Ministry of Public Works, 1919–46. Author of The Nile.
- Magdi M. El-Kammash; Associate Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University at Raleigh. Author of Economic Development and Planning in Egypt.
- Charles Gordon Smith; Emeritus Fellow of Keble College, Oxford; former Lecturer in Geography, University of Oxford. Editor of Oxford Regional Economic Atlas: The Middle East and North Africa.
To my way of thinking, the above account of the Nile reads like the present accounts of people involved with discussions about consciousness, though any number of other subjects might well be entertained instead. Some talk about the origin, the previous explorers and still others about the potential income they might reap by writing their version of the enterprise. Others want to jump into the trade by creating some would-be youtube to generate some income, while others are satisfied by speaking of supposed tributaries, ponds, lakes, fauna and wildlife they think inhabits some niche in the zone of consciousness. Some present themselves of this or that expertise while others convey they are an avid explorer and that their profession has led them to some prominently occurring inlet where consciousness thrives as an important waterway of transporting multiple types of goods called thoughts or ideas. Some travel to canyons of the brain and say that consciousness begins with specific types of neuronal interactivity, while others claim consciousness is an epiphenomenon... a shadow or echo created by neuronal activity and yet artificially created neuronal activity does not provide us with an aura or magnetic field to be described as a consciousness. While the supposed mechanics of consciousness is understood, it is not (as yet) replicatable by mere electronic based substitutions.
In other words, there is neither sound nor a picture... It is as if consciousness exists in a pre-electronic state of existence like old vaudeville acts and the Phenakistoscope, by Joseph Plateau in 1832, the Zoetrope: by William George Horner 1834, then the Zoopraxiscope: by Edward James Muggeridge, 1877, the Kintescope, by Thomas Edison and William Dickson, 1891, as well as earlier single viewed images arranged and moved by hand in earlier "motion picture" types of single slide displays such as slides whose photographic images were seen by way of exposure to a camera, while earlier ideas were more in the manner of picture postcards changed as rapidly as one could by hand.
Let me now display an extracted comment taken from the Britannica article entitled "History of the Motion picture", with the intent of describing the widely accepted present view that consciousness is somehow a static entity, whose only mobility is due to the person viewing a particular interpretation or vantage point. In other words, present ideas about consciousness are like early, pre-motion picture sequences of "stills" containing hand created pictures manipulated by hand if one wanted to encounter any dynamic display... much in the manner that some people have created multiple images on the margins of a book in which they flip rapidly in succession as they would win mixing two halves of a deck of cards in order to shuffle them, whereby the slight change in images create a motion picture effect. In short, most present ideas about consciousness are being represented as static portraits of an emerged property, which can give the impression of a magical "shazam" or "poof" into existence type of appearance and not by way of an evolutionary process that may involve overlaps, consecutively occurring or not.
...This repetition, or overlapping continuity, which owes much to magic lantern shows, clearly defines the spatial relationships between scenes but leaves temporal relationships underdeveloped and, to modern sensibilities, confused. Contemporary audiences, however, were conditioned by lantern slide projections and even comic strips; they understood a sequence of motion-picture shots to be a series of individual moving photographs, each of which was self-contained within its frame. Spatial relationships were clear in such earlier narrative forms because their only medium was space.
Motion pictures, however, exist in time as well as space, and the major problem for early filmmakers was the establishment of temporal continuity from one shot to the next...
Source: David A. Cook, Professor and Director of Film Studies Program, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Author of A History of Narrative Film. ("motion picture, history of the." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.)
In the last sentence above, I read it as thus: "Consciousness, however, exists in time and space, and a major problem for thinkers is the establishment of temporal continuity from one idea to the next..."
The development of the idea about consciousness is taking a similar line of reasoning as did the development of motion pictures, except those who think about consciousness are less creative and innovative. The language and application of their ideas creates a single picture of consciousness as if their idea is the unveiling of a masterful piece of sculpture or architecture without ever referring to consciousness as having momentum.
Here are a few more extracted comments (about Georges Méliès and Edwin S. Porter) that are relevant to the study of ideas about Consciousness:
...The shift in consciousness away from films as animated photographs to films as stories, or narratives, began to take place about the turn of the century and is most evident in the work of the French filmmaker Georges Méliès...
...It was probably Porter's experience as a projectionist at the Eden Musée theatre in 1898 that ultimately led him in the early 1900s to the practice of continuity editing. The process of selecting one-shot films and arranging them into a 15-minute program for screen presentation was very much like that of constructing a single film out of a series of separate shots.
...Porter, like Méliès, could not adapt to the linear narrative modes and assembly-line production systems that were developing...
Let us also note the historical development of the Mass production of films and equipment, Long before Henry Ford and his production lines, though Ford is sometimes credited with creating them. Henry ford, like most innovators, freely took ideas from others and were not as original in their thinking as some historians would have us believe.
Let us ask if Consciousness arrived by way of a magic-like (all of a sudden occurring) "Poof", a slow developing evolutionary trek, or by some intermediate emergence. Is it like an organ or more fluidic like blood? Does it involve a certain type (quality/quantity) of chemistry which produces a gas such as expelled Carbon dioxide or methane-like flatulence?
If we agree that Consciousness is the result of an ongoing process involving an evolution-guided dynamic psyche and that there is an underlying sequence which can be enumerated much in the manner as we have enumerated other developmental processes, procedures and outcomes, can we not also consider the possibility that there may exist obstacles; and that such an obstacle can be seen as a repetition in a dual form?
Are the history and usage of the motion picture and production lines relevant to the study about the ideas involving consciousness? Did it not emerge later on in the evolutionary development of language and thought? Or were you born with the notion of Consciousness and it was the first word that came to mind instead of a 2-patterned wa-wa, goo-goo, da-da, ma-ma? The parallels between psychology, biology and how we have come to think of production/assembly processes are quite similar, yet while we may think of production/assembly as a metaphor/analogy for psychology and biology, one can not wonder if psychology and biology are metaphors/analogies of yet something else which can not be adequately illustrated by resorting to any known subject's ideology and language of expression. In other words, the use of religion is a fool's errand.
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