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0204 Chapter 2 through 5 enact a subtle transition from the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em> to our current Lebenswelt<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0205 The Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em> associates to the lowest levels of the excavation at Catal Hoyuk<\/em>.  From the earliest levels of XII to level VIII, there are many indications that these hand-speech talking people contextualized their identities2b<\/sub> with responsibility1c<\/sub>.  Teams3c<\/sub>, rather than individuals3b<\/sub>, were specialized.  Families and friends volunteered to work in teams.  Foraging and other activities were conducted by teams.  The community was a team of teams.  Social harmonization was obligatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0206 Levels XII through VIII may be labeled, “old school”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapters two and three<\/em> (C2 and C3) draws from the lessons of excavation levels XII through VIII<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0207 The “new school” shows up in level VII and associates to a material change from cooking with clay balls<\/em> to cooking with pottery<\/em>.  This is not the only change. After level VII, labor and social specialization becomes more evident, culminating in the adoption of metallurgy (copper smelting), secondary product processing (wool and skin production) and cylinder seals (stylized declarations of ownership or product).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapters four and five<\/em> (C4 and C5) draw from the lessons of excavation levels VII to I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0208 The Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em> practices hand- (before humans) and hand-speech talk (with humans), manifests implicit abstraction, and lives in a world of constrained social complexity. This is a world where words are not lies, as noted in chapter 2B of Razie Mah’s fiction, An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our current Lebenswelt<\/em> practices speech-alone talk, engages in explicit abstraction, and lives in a world of unconstrained social complexity.  This is a world were words are lies, as noted in chapter 2A of the same novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0209 Chapter five<\/em> (C5) completes Hodder’s subtle transition.  The section titles<\/em> tell a story.  S2C5 is labeled (more or less) “Inequality, Power and Entrapment”.  S3C5 discusses “Poverty Traps”.  S4C5 explores “Emotional Bondage”. Of course, I adjusted the titles (ever so slightly) in order to bring out the true value of the labels.  My bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0210 The lesson is clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our current Lebenswelt<\/em> is not the same as the Lebenswelt that we evolved in.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humans depend on humans (C5) implicitly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0211 The social circles tell the tale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My reference is Razie Mah’s e-works, Comments on Michael Tomasello’s Arc of Inquiry (1999-2019)<\/em> as well as The Human Niche<\/em>.  The first contains two parts (2024).  The second presents the hypothesis that the human niche<\/em> consists of the potential of triadic relations<\/em> (2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0212 Family and friends<\/em> (5) is the social circle under the greatest selective pressure<\/em> from the separation of our lineage from the chimpanzees<\/em> to the start of bipedalism<\/em> (roughly, 7 to 3.5 Myr).  During this era, male-female pair-bonding with male provisioning<\/em> may have co-evolved with bipedalism<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The walking “southern apes” evolve by 3.5 Myr..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0213 The team<\/em> (15) is the social circle under intense selective pressure from the start of bipedalism<\/em> to the domestication of fire<\/em> (roughly, 3.5 to 0.6 Myr).  This is the era of obligatory collaborative foraging<\/em>.  Hand talk<\/em> serves as an adaption to the team<\/em>.  This is clear in Razie Mah’s Comments on Steven Mithen’s Book (1996) Prehistory of the Mind<\/em>.  Hand talk is prelinguistic, in so far as team members perform only sensible construction (two-level interscopes, specifying sign relation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this time, the Homo<\/em> genus first appears around 1.8 Myr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0214 The community<\/em> (150) is the social circle under critical selective pressure from the domestication of fire<\/em> to the first singularity<\/em> (roughly, 0.6 to 0.009Myr).  This is the era of obligatory social harmonizing<\/em>.  Cooking with fire<\/em> empowers more teams.  More teams yield and larger groups.  The community<\/em> may be regarded as the team of teams<\/em>.  Hand talk becomes fully linguistic, capable of counterintuitive, yet fully referential, statements, such as the name of the character, [image RAVEN][image-MAN].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0216 Social construction<\/em> creates cognitive spaces for communal belonging<\/em>.  It does through by intentionally activating implicit exemplar sign-processing<\/em>.  Counter-intuitive statements cannot be sensibly regarded (so, they are not appropriate for team actions).  At the same time, they channel exemplar sign-processes towards the potentials of transcendentals (truth, beauty, goodness) and virtues (responsibility, honesty, and so forth).  Exemplar sign-processing<\/em> adapts to obligatory social harmonizing<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0217 During this time, Homo sapiens<\/em> appears, around 300kyr, with the voice<\/em> added to hand-talk<\/em> as an adornment<\/em>. See Razie Mah’s e-work, Synaesthesia and the Bicameral Mind in Human Evolution<\/em> (2025).  Over the next three-hundred thousand years, the voice extends from adornment<\/em> to a fully linguistic complementary mode of talking<\/em>.  Razie Mah applies the label, “hand-speech talk”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paleolithic art and tools<\/em> may be regarded from the stance of a millennia long exploration of the semiotics of hand-speech talk<\/em>.  The semiotic qualities of hand-speech talk<\/em> are rooted in the iconicity and indexality of hand talk<\/em> and branch into the purely symbolic nature of speech talk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0218 The twist to human evolution<\/em> arrives with the constellation of a speech-alone talking culture.  Rising sea-levels<\/em> force two unrelated hand-speech talking cultures,<\/em> one dwelling in the coast and ravine of the channel of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers<\/em> and the other settled on the surrounding dry land<\/em>.  One Neolithic and one Mesolithic culture<\/em> are forced into proximity, leading to the familiar sequence of pidgin, then creole, formation<\/em>.  The only difference is that this creole, the Sumerian language, consists of speech-alone talk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0219 The technical reference is Razie Mah’s The First Singularity and Its Fairy Tale Trace<\/em>.  The dramatic referral is An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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