Some Ruminations by Me

In the same way that human society has used natural transports (or substrates) available to human congregations in our more distant Neolithic past as part of our habitat choice; are human-made or anthropogenic transports also a highway for organic development? Does all Life require a substrate for chemical and physical recombination, to create new Life – to transduct or transform mass or energy into new innovations of form? Are we really just reacting to forces that shape our habitats, including our own human contribution, that we, in fact, mistake to be the creative brilliance of our species, that produces the human output? It’s a question I have been trying to answer since I was 13, maybe earlier. Life requires containers or platforms for recombination to engender new combinations and structures – to reform mass. Through atomic and subatomic reconstructions, if it has a place, or habitat for physical and chemical forces to affect biological structures, Nature reinvents itself. It appears, in its most elemental sense detectable to a human, it reorganizes its relationship with energy and matter. Are we, as humans, simply a reactive part of that evolutionary scheme of things? Aren’t we, by the very essence of our place in evolution, always at least one step behind, as participants versus observers? The journey begins.



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This page is designed to explain the phenomena of human cognitive formations - what I call cognitive materialism. How, and with examples of its assembly from a neurological and introspective understanding, it takes shape. We as humans conceive of concepts, give them a physical life, and extend those concepts into the brains of other humans. That process, as I will illustrate, deserves to be named, cognitive materialism. It consists of the material birth of concepts in the brain.