“The rise of consciousness, synaptic pruning, hormonal shifts, and transitions in brainwave patterns, all expel the child from Eden and push it into the normal world. Adam and Eve always have to leave paradise to grow up.” ChildrenConsciousnessInnocenceEdenAdam And EveParadise LostDialectic Book:Children See Dead People: Children's Spooky Powers Source: Children See Dead People: Children's Spooky Powers
“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