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into an individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details of optimization will be specific to each location (because efficient causes differ), yet produce something &#8216;general&#8217;, that manifests in excavation sites as varied as Catal Hoyuk and Tepe Gobekli.&nbsp;&nbsp;Domestication includes the local geography, plants and animals.&nbsp;&nbsp;Domestication may even include settlements more than a day&#8217;s walk away.&nbsp;&nbsp;Domestication may include the heavens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0059 Once rendered in this manner, the slow, seemingly reversible, spiral into&nbsp;<em>the neolithic thing<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;gets depicted as thin dotted horizontal lines along the axes of arrangements versus time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0060&nbsp;<em>The late Neolithic bauplan<sub>3<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;permits individual social and labor specializations.&nbsp;&nbsp;Something significant has changed.&nbsp;&nbsp;The key final cause of &#8216;settling down&#8217; remains relevant.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, another key final cause cannot be ignored.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The optimization of the early Neolithic<\/em>&nbsp;somehow breaks down and the late Neolithic initiates&nbsp;<em>a search for order<sub>1<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;that continues to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0061 Here is a picture of what&nbsp;<em>Bauplan 2<\/em>&nbsp;might look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide15-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide15-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide15-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide15-2-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0062 It is as if an individual, having been formed by&nbsp;<em>a bauplan 1 gestation<\/em>, gets born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a rude awakening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0063 What about the timeline?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I replace the increasing boldness of the horizontal dotted lines with a slowly rising\u00a0<em>bauplan 1<\/em>\u00a0slope, and if I depict the most bold horizontal dotted lines as <em>a bauplan 2<\/em>\u00a0phase transition, then I get the following graph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide16-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide16-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide16-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide16-3-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0064 What does this imply?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously,&nbsp;<em>bauplan 1<\/em>&nbsp;ends in a twist, that is,&nbsp;<em>bauplan 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I noted this slogan at the start of my examination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0065 Less obviously,&nbsp;<em>the Neolithic revolution<\/em>&nbsp;is not in the actuality of {material arrangements [substantiating] the neolithic condition}<sub>2<\/sub>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Neolithic Revolution&#8221; involves a transition from&nbsp;<em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>our current Lebenswelt.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0066 Fortunately, for the author,&nbsp;<em>the American Marxist academic candle<\/em>&nbsp;is about to exhaust itself, just as&nbsp;<em>the Soviet Marxist illumination<\/em>&nbsp;did decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, the crisis begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0067 The impending change of cognitive grounds will be at least as great as the following transition from Karl Marx (1818-1883) to Juri Lotman (1922-1993).&nbsp;&nbsp;This transition goes sigmoidal in 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0068 The following hylomorphic transition is derived in Razie Mah&#8217;s blog for December 2025, titled&nbsp;<em>Looking at Igor Pilshchikov and Mikhail Trunin&#8217;s Article (2016) &#8220;The Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics&#8221;<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide17-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide17-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide17-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide17-3-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0069&nbsp;<em>Marx&#8217;s actuality<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;is supposed to arise from&nbsp;<em>the potential of scientific models<sub>1<\/sub>,<\/em>&nbsp;even though the actuality<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;served as doctrine, rather than a mechanical or mathematical formulation.&nbsp;&nbsp;Remember, Marx&#8217;s actuality<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;conforms to&nbsp;<em>the structure of Peirce&#8217;s secondness<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Secondness is the realm of actuality.&nbsp;&nbsp;How easy is it to confuse&nbsp;<em>this actuality<\/em>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<em>the realness of a mechanical or mathematical model?<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet, they are not the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0070&nbsp;<em>Lotman&#8217;s actuality<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;arises from&nbsp;<em>the potential of the semiosphere<sub>1<\/sub>,<\/em>&nbsp;the universe of sign-relations.&nbsp;&nbsp;Semiotic arrangements are not the same as material arrangements.&nbsp;&nbsp;They are not even close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0071 So, what am I saying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author senses that&nbsp;<em>&#8216;something&#8217;&nbsp;<\/em>is coming and she figures out that it must concern&nbsp;<em>a bauplan.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all,&nbsp;<em>bauplan<\/em>&nbsp;is a term that is familiar to evolutionary biologists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0072 Happily, the semiotician, Razie Mah, has already explored human evolution from the point of view of Peirce&#8217;s categories.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The human bauplan<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>an adaptation<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>the niche<\/em>&nbsp;(or the potential)&nbsp;<em>of triadic relations<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Plus, human evolution comes with a twist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a list of works by Razie Mah that pertain to&nbsp;<em>Bauplan 1&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>Bauplan 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide18-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide18-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide18-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide18-2-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0073 Surely, this is a lot to unpack.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, that is precisely what Melinda Zeder&#8217;s article calls for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My thanks to the author for publishing this thought piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0056 Okay, I will continue drinking my cocktail in the following exposition. 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