This-essay is a7704291.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %MENTAL EVOLUTION 770429 It is probable that mental evolution has been in accord to adaptive considerations. Early species had processes which instinctively took care of coping with a limited number of environmental situations to assure survival through the reproductive process. Such processes did not involve significant rational anticipations of future events --- merely responses to present realities. Those processes did not involve analysis of elements within the environment---rather they were wholistic responses to aspects of the total environment. Consciousness is the sense we know it, was not present. Emotions in the sense we know them were not present. At intermediate levels of evolution species developed primitive forms of anticipation of the future and the ability to consider elements of the total environment as interacting parts of a whole which was perceived in terms of its parts. With anticipation developed subjective responses to anticipated situations emotions. Consciousness developed to the point where it could deal in fantasy with possible futures, rather than just with the present realities. New ways of representing such fantasies developed so as to better examine their implications. New ways of communicating those fantasies developed so that members of species could behave communally to deal with possibilities. These evolutionary developments probably involved the development of new portions of the brain to take on new functions not provided for in the primitive brain --- which continued performing the elementary instinctive functions as of old. For each new form of coping new sets of sub-sections of the brain evolved as well as adaptive developments within old portions of the brain. At our advanced level of mental evolution we have developed portions of the brain to deal with objective processing of data and analysis of the implications for the future. These mental processes are quite different than the instinctive and the affective processes characteristic of earlier stages of mental evolution. To some extent the development of portions of the brain to deal with these new processes may have been somewhat independent of, although parallel to the earlier brain centers. As a consequence there may not be a full integration of the two processes, a lack which leads to the problems of our five-cultures-dichotomy. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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