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0415 In synaesthesia, impressions2a<\/sub> cross modes.  Visual stimulates auditory.  Auditory triggers visual.  What is the sound of an image?  What is the image of a sound?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strange part<\/em> is that both hand-talk and speech-talk<\/em> are rapidly decoded by the Wernicke’s region, located around the left temporal lobe, as well as other regions specialized for language<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As speech decouples from hand-talk, the archaeological record<\/em> blossoms with innovative technologies, symbolic artifacts, and evocative adornments, including spectacular burials<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0416 But, the archaeological record of the Upper Paleolithic<\/em> gives no indication that something weird<\/em> is about to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0417 By the time that humans in Eurasia are no longer interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans, they practice hand-speech talk<\/em> as a dual-mode way of talking<\/em>.  Speech is no longer merely an adornment to hand talk.  Speech has taken a life of its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humans create artifacts that can speak to their owners<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0418 Julian Jaynes uses the term, “auditory hallucination”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, that is not a satisfying label for what the artifact says<\/em>.  The artifact serves as a visual stimulus that triggers cross-modal synaesthesia, or spoken words, that are automatically decoded into a species impressa2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0419 Okay, as far as an insight-filled modern psychologist<\/em> is concerned, that species impressa2a<\/sub><\/em> is “an auditory hallucination”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, as far as this examination<\/em> is concerned, the species impressa2a<\/sub><\/em> is also the sign-object (SOi<\/sub>) of an interventional sign-relation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, the left and right hemispheres have specialized regions<\/em>… phenotypes… that embody the human adaptation<\/em> into the niche of the interventional sign-relation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0420 Jaynes associates these specialized regions to the Wernicke’s region (in the left hemisphere) and the corresponding lateral region (in the right hemisphere).  Wernicke’s region on the left<\/em> is specialized to rapidly decoding symbols (whether in the form of hand-talk or speech-talk) in the construction of a species impressa2a<\/sub><\/em>.  Wernicke’s region on the right<\/em> is specialized to constellate commitment2c<\/sub>.  Commitment2c<\/sub><\/em> (SVi<\/sub>) stands for a species impressa2a<\/sub><\/em> (SOi<\/sub>) in regards to the normal context of what is happening3a<\/sub><\/em> operating on the potential of ‘something’ happening1a<\/sub><\/em> (SIi<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0423 As the interglacial ends, around 10kyr, Neolithic tools signal the start of a new stone age<\/em>.  Plant domestication spreads.  So does animal domestication.  The two productive trends join in the so-called Developed Neolithic.  Humans are told to give plants as food to their animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Told?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think “auditory hallucination”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0424 Here is a picture of the timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0425 Then, something weird happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first singularity begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first singularity is portrayed in many of Razie Mah’s works, including The First Singularity and Its Fairy Tale Trace<\/em> and An Archaeology of the Fall,<\/em> available at smashwords and other e-book venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0426 But, I am not above repetition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0427 When the current interglacial begins, the oceans rise as glaciers melt.  The rise is so significant that the Persian Gulf fills<\/em>.  Twelve-thousand years ago, the Persian Gulf is a dry valley with a river gorge, home to two late-stone-age hand-speech-talking cultures,<\/em> one Neolithic dryland farming and stockbreeding on the valley floor<\/em> and one Mesolithic coast-dwelling and wetland-familiar in the river gorge<\/em>.  The rise of the sea level<\/em> drives them to the edges of the Persian Gulf.<\/em>  The two hand-speech cultures<\/em> become one speech-alone talking culture, <\/em>the Ubaid of southern Mesopotamia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0428 The linguistic consequences of two independent cultures being forced together<\/em> is well documented from historical studies.  The two languages get picked up willy nilly, without grammar, as a pidgin.  Then, the pidgin is routinized in the next few generations, resulting in a fully linguistic creole<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, the original cultures<\/em> practice hand-speech talk<\/em> and the resulting creole<\/em> ends up as speech-alone talk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time the Ubaid<\/em> forms, it is the only culture in the world practicing speech-alone talk<\/em>.  All contemporaneous cultures<\/em> engage in hand-speech talk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this regard, it is not surprising that the Sumerian language<\/em> is unrelated to any large family of languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0429 But, there is something that is surprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0430 The differences in semiotic qualities between hand-speech talk and speech-alone talk<\/em> account for the subsequent emergence of unconstrained social complexity in southern Mesopotamia<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As already noted, iconic and indexal hand-speech relies on implicit abstraction and serves to maintain the harmony among social circles within a tribe.  In other words, hand-talk and hand-speech talk facilitate constrained social complexity<\/em>.  Teams are specialized, not people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contrast, purely symbolic speech-alone talk allows explicit abstraction .  Speech-alone talk allows anything to be labeled: parts, wholes, individuals, groups, and so forth.  This type of labeling<\/em> encourages both labor and social specialization, as well as technical innovation. Speech-alone talk<\/em> promotes unconstrained social complexity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From its inception, the Ubaid of southern Mesopotamia has greater wealth and power, as well as technical superiority, compared to adjacent hand-speech talking cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0431 So what happens next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearby hand-speech talking cultures drop the hand-component of their hand-speech talk and begin to experience marginal increases in wealth and power promoted by the purely symbolic nature of speech-alone talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speech-alone talk<\/em> spreads from Mesopotamia to the rest of the world on the wings of mimicry<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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