Title: Global Cultural Evolution

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My Life Work - TITLE:
A GENERAL MODEL OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS - GLOBAL CULTURAL EVOLUTION
(or: Towards a Unified Field Theory of Human Behavior)

SUMMARY: This paper develops a new structural psychology, and therein proposes a specific model for the scientific study of consciousness.  The presented model uses Earth's geologic history of mass-extinction & recovery (evolutionary dynamics) in determining humanity’s adaptive response (conscious and non-conscious traits).  It argues humanity adaptively mirrors Earth’s basic evolutionary dynamics, in a “mythologizing of natural adversity” as foundation for all human knowledge – a process that continues well into the modern era. 

The intellectual lineage used to develop this model includes:  

•       Evolutionary biology offers a context for this study – answering Chalmers’ “hard question,”  

•       Paleoanthropology defines the circumstance of human emergence from Gaia,  

•       Environmental forces on a dexterous human neurophysiology derive an ambiguous but instructive narrative logic (mythic sensibility),  

•       Psychology tracks humanity’s shift from animal-self to modern creative-self, using work of Hegel > Freud > Jung > Rank > Joseph Campbell > Arnold Mindell as a new structural psychology, 

•       Fractal geometry offers a holographic design for modeling consciousness, in a form consistent with Quantum Theory, 

•       Memetics presents a tool for measuring conscious traits, in a variation of the Hall-Tonna values inventory, 

•       Finally, Structured Opportunistic Thinking, a hybrid of NTL’s T-group, and Pierce’s Power Equity Group Theory, suggests a developmental methodology. 

This work presents a “general hypothesizing model” of human consciousness, in attempting a science of consciousness. 

KEYWORDS:  human, global, culture, evolution, psychology, cognition, awareness, consciousness, archetype, myth, fractal, holographic, creativity, duality, dialectic.

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