...we might imagine when the psychiatrist bids the patient to lie on the couch, he is askign him to stretch out alongside a horse and a crocodile. The crocodile may be willing and ready to shed a tear and the horse to neigh and whinny, but when they are encouraged to express their troubles in words, it soon becomes evident that their inability is beyond the help of language training. Little wonder that the patient who has personal responsibility for these animals and who must serve as their mouthpiece is sometimes accused of being full of resistances and reluctant to talk...MacLean extensively explored the relationships of the higher mammalian neo-cortex that in humans developed into a huge blossom with respect to the Limbic or ancient cortical areas that are folded inward around the top of the brain stem. The primitive brain is intimately connected via the hypothalamus and related structures to both divisions of the autonomic nervous system while the new brain, to which we human owe our intellectual capacity, has no explicit biological controls over the old emotional brain. They are constrained to live in the same house together and they often don't get along. MacLean called it a built-iin schizophysiology that accounts for our tragic human history (5, 6). As Arthur Koestler described it, we have the capacity to build atomic weapons and send rockets to the moon harnessed to the emotional capacity of a crocodile and a horse (7).
HUMANS Idea |
Future delegation of cosmic ideation will open the human mind to levels of realization as yet undreamed of, with a new balance throughout the hierarchy. | |
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Delegation of direct knowledge of cosmic order requires a new paradigm for science. The three focal points of mentation must balance in the biosphere. | ||
Expansionist empires fueled western science and industrial routines that now dominate the planet through huge corporations, threatening global resources. | ||
Spirit cultures explored the planet. Cities brought division of labor and writing. Three forms of ideation emerged in Western, Eastern, and African cultures. | ||
VERTEBRATES Knowledge |
Apes evolved to humans that plan time with left brain verbal ideas distinct from mute right brain integration, both fueled by the ancient emotional brain. | |
Higher mammals, dog, seal, etc., select behaviour. Ancient limbic brain reflects emotional patterns in conscious neocortex that intuits action in knowledge. | ||
Lower mammals, horse, cow, etc., modulate behavioural routines to suit space-time events. Mesocortex blooms. Marsupials lack a corpus callosum. | ||
Historical reptiles explored quadruped behavioural forms. Autonomic nervous system reflects emotional patterns in cerebral awareness. Archicortex blooms. | ||
INVERTEBRATES Routine |
Ants, bees, etc. use the idea of division of labor for their collective survival. The giant squid's developed brain employs ideas for its individual survival. | |
Flying insects use rapid knowledge of space and time in flight routines. Most span time via metamorphosis. Spiders, and some crustaceans, span time and space. | ||
Segmented worms repeat routines to move in space. Centipedes colonize land. Arthropods specialize body segments. Cephlopods and mollusks unsegmented. | ||
Sponges, jellyfish, coral, flatworms, nematodes, starfish, and chordates explore forms of routine in motor-sensory responses, with embryo developments. | ||
PLANTS Form |
Flowering plants (angiosperms) use ideas extended in space and time to attract animal pollinating vectors, while providing food in stems and fruit for dispersal. | |
Gymnosperms use knowledge extended in space and time to join gametophyte and sporophyte in pollen and seeds, allowing conifers to live in dry terrain. | ||
Giant horsetails and clubmosses on land explore routines with vascular systems and alternate sporophyte and gametophyte generations, leaving us coalbeds. | ||
Bacteria, algae, fungi, slime molds, and lichens explore living forms of the cell, from microscopic to giant. Alternate sexual and asexual generations emerge. |
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