“Language is the basis of culture and consciousness, so, once humans had language, they became capable of using culture to override biology (using memes to drive humanity rather than genes; using idea mutations rather than gene mutations) and thus freed humanity from animalism and instinct. The new dawn of consciousness, culture and knowledge had arrived.” ChildrenPhilosophyConsciousnessUnconsciousAnimalsGenesMemesBicameralism Book:Children See Dead People: Children's Spooky Powers Source: Children See Dead People: Children's Spooky Powers
“Consciousness isn’t part of a child’s innate makeup. It has to be added. A child has to acquire consciousness, through education, something which others do to the child. Human culture operates on human infants to furnish them with a new operating system: consciousness. No other animal has a culture. No other animal can change their instinctual operating system. Children are the perfect laboratory for consciousness studies since they start off unconscious, slowly develop consciousness – for several years existing in an extraordinary liminal zone poised between the unconscious and conscious worlds – and, finally, become fully conscious. Via children, we can literally track how consciousness changes humans as we monitor the changing properties and abilities of children as their degree of consciousness increases.” ChildrenCultureLanguageEducationConsciousnessUnconsciousBicameralism Book:Children See Dead People: Children's Spooky Powers Source: Children See Dead People: Children's Spooky Powers