Superboggem
Andre Willers
1 May 2013
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Synopsis:
In Afrikaans a Superboggem is a super-baboon . In our terms
, a human . Google could not find humans . About par for the course .
Discussion :
Baboons are degenerate hominids , that once had language .
Hence they have remnants of Broca’s areas . The living was too easy .
“ Particular neurons, called mirror neurons, have been located
in the F5 area of baboons' brains. They are also present in man's brain within
Broca's area. These neurons activate our motor system during both the
performance of actions and the observation of actions performed by others
giving rise to an automatic response, a sort of simulation or, rather,
imitation, as the process is not intentional, but automatic and unaware, that
is, unconscious. “
Boggem ! , in other words .
Baboons are our cousins who took the easy route .
Still around , and will probably outlast their human relatives .
See Appendix Zap .
Somewhere in the mess is the reason why you are not a baboon anymore . Or maybe still
is .
Who cares ?
Andre .
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Appendix Zap
Bipedalism Update
Andre
Willers
14 Oct 2010
Synopsis :
The
announcement in 2010 of the discovery of the female fossil of Ardipithecus
Ramidus pushed back the human ancestral bipedalism to about 4.4 MYA .
Ardipithecus
Ramidus was capable of tree-locomotion and bipedal ground locomotion
This has
consequences .
See
"National Gegraphic" July 2010 , p63 : "The birth of
bipedalism"
Discussion:
1.Structure
of the Foot:
Sideways
splay of the big toe to grip branches .
But also
the Os perineum , to enable a walking stride .
2.Structure
of the hand :
The palms
are short and flexible , allowing Ardi to walk on boughs using her palms .Not
the knuckle-dragging used by chimps and gorillas .
3.These
two elements enabled bipedalism to develop in trees .
Ardi
gripped higher boughs with hands while walking on lower boughs .
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com
"Human Nails" (23 August 2007) reproduced an Annexure A for
convenience
4.Structure
of the pelvis :
In the Ardi
fossil , the pelvis bones had already broadened and shortened to a great degree
to facilitate the muscle attachments of the gluteal muscles . This led to an
easier evolutionary route for larger brain-sizes in babies .
5.Speech
consequence:
Freeing the
upper limbs around the thorax from locomotor duties has the unexpected
consequence of freeing the breathing apparatus to be used for reliable
communication.
Emphasis on
reliable .
Speech and
then language exploded .
6.Canine
teeth decrease consequence :
Lovejoy et
al argue that canine teeth (used in ritual combat between males for females)
reduced in favor of contractual bonds (ie food) between males and females . It
is difficult to see this happening without some sort of language
7.
!Click language .
This evolved
first because it does not need full-time breath control that only bipedalism
enables . And , of course it enabled the exploitation of caves as shelters .
(Hint :
teach Chimps !Click)
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com
"Death of an Ur-Language" (9 sep 2009) et al .
In Appendix
B
8. Optimal Human Brain Capacity .
Surprisingly
, we have some hard data .
1.Herto
skull : 1450 CC True Homo Saps . Circa
200 000 Years ago .
H.
Neanderthalensis : About the same cranial capacity . About the same vintage .
2.H.
Floriensis : Small (about 1000 cc cranial capacity) , but survival data packed into external cultural storage .
Dwarfism due to malnutrition , especially essential fatty acids (Omegas) . They
were cut off from the sea .
3.H.Saps :
about 1200-1300 CC . But remember that
the extra to 200 cc is all neo-cortex . The effect is non-linear .
4. So why are we stupider than the original
H.Saps ?
Survival .
The system
was merrily on its way to a steady state of hyper-smart , super males when Toba
happened . Co-operation suddenly became more important than competitition .
The
Matriarchy deliberately fostered this , but left the epigenetic systems in .(I
don’t think they knew how to zap them out ) .
I am forced
to add in that they were aided by hyper-smart male elements . This necessitates
Singularity creation .
Can this be
possible with only 200cc of extra neo-cortex? I doubt it . Extra computational
capability outside of the Local
system has to be involved . Co-operation
of some sort . So much for the SuperMan .
Brain size
, intelligence and aggression were bred out . Some was restored during the
agricultural revolution circa 10 000 years ago . Since 1700 AD , there has been
some functional genetic restoration ( Aspergers, etc) as epigenetic factors
kick in .
There is a
threshold : today a hypersmart
individual has to involve other humans . (Religion , laziness) . And they are only hypersmart relative to
normals .
A
calculation for the HyperSmart :
You have 3
data points . Calculate the minima , maxima and optima across 300 000 years in
local time .
And you
thought Kindergarten was hard ?
Andre
Appendix A
Human Nails .
Andre
Willers
23 August
2007
Synopsis :
Human
fingernails are intimately linked to rhythm and pattern recognition neural
systems . It is also the third most important element in human sexual selection
.
Discussion:
Evolutionary
roots:
Hominid
bipedalism evolved quite early .
Moropithecus
(16 to 25 MY ago) showed adaptations to upright posture .
They walked
on branches and clutched other breast-high branches for stability .
(See
Science DOI
: 10.112 / science.1140779
New
Scientist of 9 June 2007 p18 “Four legs new ,two legs much older”
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com “The Squat and the Wobble” )
This
adaptation was lost in some streams of
homonids , but retained in the homonin (ie our) ancestors . This means
that for significant evolutionary time our ancestors clung to thin branches
with their fingers curled around the branch and their fingertips pressed
against the wood ..
The branch
is not only a mechanical support , but also transmits information . The
branches are elastically resilient , so waves caused by any large organism
walking and stalking about can be picked up by suitably sensitive sensors and
the type of organism identified by a neural-network .
The
canopy-network is an information-rich network because of it’s resilience .
Similar type of signals can be carried by the ground (cf elephant feet ) , but the damping and
bandwidth is totally different .
Small
wonder that homonins have recreated the canopy in the Internet .
An Internet
created by elephants or whales would look completely different .
The
finger :
The
sensor-network is the pressure-receptors below the nail . The finger part in
touch with branch is liable to tissue destruction , abrasion and calluses . Any
sensors here are degraded by wear-and-tear .
But ,
hydraulic pressure transmits around the finger bone to compress the pressure
receptors in the nail-bed against the unyielding nail , giving quite fine
detail to a neural-network .
Some
Corollaries:
1. IFF
(Identification Friend or Foe)
This
evolved literally at the start of the dinosaur/mammal split , derived from
reptiles and has been refined ever since .
Any
predator has a particular rhythm caused by putting it’s feet down in particular
sequence (gait) .
If the
predator is on a branch (or any resilient surface) , the rhythm is
transmitted .
Soil can
also be a medium , but less efficient (cf elephants)
This
neural-network for IFF evolved under the
fingernails .
In other
words , a lot of rhythm recognition (ie pattern-recognition) takes place in the
nerve-plexus under the fingernail .
The
survival advantages are obvious .
The primary
advantage is in recognizing non-hostiles . False alarms are extremely wasteful
, especially in hard times . A trinary classification at neural level of hostile , neutral and friendly would
evolve as an optimal solution .
There are
circuits directly stimulating flight-or-fight mechanisms . There is a direct tie to the hippocampus
and amygdala through stress proteins .
There is a direct neural tie to muscles in the arm (from fingernails) and the
legs (from toenails) .
This
enabled the prey to identify a predator creeping or galloping up to it and take
immediate reflex action .
Hyper-length
neurons is the latest fashionable term to denote really long nervous
connections without synapses .
The rich
nexus of nerves under the fingernails have long been a target of human torture
. But notice the aversion to nail-less humans or nail-biting . Notice how your
attention is drawn to a nail-malformation (like a blue-nail)
2.
Grooming.
Unarguably
a defining social element in homonins .
But every
human is complex of pressure waves .
Heartbeat ,
breathing , peritalsis are only a few of
the passive pressure-waves that can be sensed by fingertips . More active
palpations enables joint-crackling , lung and abdominal spaces to be felt by
fingertips . Ask any doctor .
By
definition , some females would be better at fingertip sensitivity than
others . Since most infant mortality
involves the gastro-intestinal system , which can be felt , sick babies allowed
to be handled by the more sensitive woman are much more likely to survive . No
language for this is needed initially .
Nursing and
handling babies need sensitive touch .
Those
females better at it ( ie well-shaped fingernails) evolve into midwives , since they reduce infant mortality
for the group .
The midwife
is the first professional .
Indeed ,
the medical round has not changed much in about 70 000 years .
The dominant
female shaman , surrounded by a cloud of students , stalks from infant to
infant , subjecting them to tactile examination . Easily remedified complaints
(like blockages) or tried and true herbal plants are used to reduce infant
mortality . This information is transmitted to the students .
Note
self-medication by chimps and gorillas .
3.
What drives this language development ?
The problem
with previous language-development models was that there is no really , really
compelling evolutionary reason why language should evolve .
Hunters do
not need it . Noise is contra-indicated . Modern warriors like the SEALs use
sign language in combat .
Small-woman
groups might have the tendencies , but how does being top-woman of a small ,
isolated group translate into a planetwide meme-and-gene dominance ?
We have to
have a mechanism whereby local dominance is transmitted .
The
Answer :
Old-Fashioned
Darwin .
The
reduction in infant-mortality is the
driver .
The
transmission of information (ie language) then has an extremely direct
relevance not only for a small tribe , but larger groups .
A tactile
sensitive female with some language skill creates a positive feedback
environment for higher infant survival rates . The language element enables her
to teach students that scatter and repeat the process . The tribes that accept
or send students to the college outbreed those that that don’t .
There
is a crux point here relevant today :
Matriarchs
(ie doctors) who tried to keep this advance in-tribe got overwhelmed by those
that made it freely available .
Females ,
following an ancient imperative , would bring sick infants to the friendly
neighborhood clinic .
The
Matriarchal-Medical societal group outbred all others . And language was
essential to the information transmission .
Argh!!
A bunch of
doctors huddling together and exchanging
jargon is the origin of language. The jargon was expanded to include terms for
social competition for resources and status . Language was born in all its
glory .
Note that
the invention of Peace
(See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com “The
origins of war and Peace”)
is a
logical consequence of the above scenario during a stress episode like Toba .
Not to
mention the College / University idea . Which morphed into Organised Religion .
The Dark
Side .
The Rite of
Passage (ie to qualify to be seen as human and worthy of procreation ) was an
invention simultaneous with the invention of Peace . Youths who could not
subordinate their impulses (to fairness , pain , boredom ) to the society ,
were expelled from the procreational pool , or even killed .
This
mechanism (meme-structure) is still active today . (Flunked Varsity ? You’re
drafted.) Can’t stand the fraternity initiation ? You are not human . Go flip
burgers .
This works
fine as long as the governing society is in charge . But by expelling it’s
mutants , the society builds up a pool resentful beings of various degrees of
humanity.
A sudden
change (climate , plague , technology , etc) reduces the defenses of the
original system sufficiently to bring about a revolution
Ie the
climatic stabilization about 12 900 years ago that made profitable agriculture
possible .
4.
Snakes .
The alert
reader would have noticed that a reliable , sensitive temperature sensor is
lacking in the human sensorium . The most sensitive ones are in the elbows and
the back of the knees , and these hardly lend themselves to easy usage .
So they
bred snakes . Remember , these are the people that domesticated through
selective breeding all our present domesticated species .
Snakes then
would have been the very first
domesticated species .
A living
thermometer .
The
infra-red sensors of snakes are more sensitive than present thermometers used
in hospitals .
The
specially bred snakes would have been bred not only for thermo-sensitivity ,
but for chemo-sensitivity as well .
The
forked-tongue could detect not only breakdown products of illnesses exuded
through the skin or breath , but location as well . (That’s why it’s forked.)
A basket of
specialized snakes would enable a medical practitioner of the era
70 000 – 12
900 BC to give first level medical care equivalent to that of country clinic in
our era . Diagnostics would have been superior , since specialized snakes would
be doing this . Think programmed bio-chips .
Problem
cases would be referred to the local College center .
Poisonous
snakes was bred for medicinal aspects of their poisons (still being done today)
.
So where
are these snakes today ?
Traces of
their genetic material should be found in garden snakes in Western Europe .
Obviously ,
nobody has looked for genetic bottlenecks from this viewpoint .
So this is
a verifiable test .
Evidence of
deliberate breeding (especially in mitochondrial snake DNA ) should be
found . It is doubtful that really
highly specialized snakes could survive in the wild (think feral Jersey cow or
Merino) , but some would have gotten lucky . Their genetic traces should be
traceable .
Cultural
remnants :
The Aesclapius
is a cultural remnant . (Intertwined snakes is still the Western symbol of
medicine .) Not bad for a symbol about
30 000 years old .
Legends ,
statues and inscriptions of dragons .
Bible :
Eden . The snake got the starring role as the baddie , since the victors wrote
the history books .
Also note
Isis , purging of Ireland of snakes , Feng Shui , etc
Spirals : in rock engravings , etc . Which
way does a snake coil up ?
Midwives
.
The memes
for this civilization is coiled up inside the one set of humans that had to
survive : the midwives .
Remember , they thought biologically . The
concepts of seeds inside reproducing systems came naturally to them .
The
Matriarchs had thousands of years to see
their demise coming and to plant seeds
Ho-ho-ho !
The New
World Order is guaranteed to be completely different from the Bilderbirger
vision .
So , there
were some good ones matriarchs and some
bad ones .
The good
ones tried to ensure the survival of what was good in their civilization .
The bad
ones tried to ensure their dominance .
The ensuing
civil wars destroyed almost everything .
Most of the
good got thrown out with the bad .
The planet
is littered with the ruins of their buildings , bioforms and still-active
bio- weapon
systems .
Some
meme markers that have survived the wars :
Bio-warfare
vs numbers . Fear the disease-ridden stranger . If you are not for us , you are
against us . Any writing or symbol is dangerous , since it can contaminated
with mind-altering vectors by touching it .
Some
remnants of these have survived in central-europe : psychotic and schizophrenic
inducing chemicals in basic foodstuffs like rye (ergot fungi) . Some very
localized near the original labs .
(One particular variant of psychosis inducing
behavioural change organisms was localized within about 50 km radius in central Europe : symptoms : fear of persecution : paranoia with very definite
cut-off points . A weapon .)
Your
attention is drawn to plasmodium induced behaviour changes where the carriers
are cats (and dogs as well) .
This would
be a civilizing influence in a mild form ( taking risks by trusting ) , but a
mind-control form in a strong form (trust unconditionally) . (Oxytocin
stimulation)
A horrible
thought is that the sites of the Nazi extermination camps (and the very idea)
came from people picking up extermination bio-weapon contamination from old
weapon sites . Note that the Nazi camps are on a line that would be a natural
defensive line about 9 000 years ago .
Old weapons
that kill and kill again .
Why the
sudden sanity in the late twentieth century ?
Acid rain .
The vectors
of madness were in the fungi (forest rhizomes) in the ground .
The
weaponized mind-altering fungi , bacteria and viruses were obviously spread as
widely as possible over the defensive lines . The ones that could survive
thousands of years would be in the old fungi structures underground . These
(because they were carrying a non-survival payload) were the first to die in
acid-rain .
Remember ,
they thought like biologists .
They would
not pick up a rock and bash you on the head . They would breed some organism
that makes you vulnerable to their memes . You then would pick up a rock and
bash their enemies ‘ heads in .
Can these
organisms recover ?
Of course .
They doing so now . See the latest history .
Why did
this civilization nearly vanish ?
(See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com “The
origins of war and Peace” , “Costs” ,
“Nazca” , etc)
Your
attention is drawn to the putative small comet impact on North America about 12
900 years ago . See New Scientist 26 May
2007 “Firestorm from space wiped out prehistoric Americans.”
This
resulted in a short-term planetary climatic stability
(alas , now
coming to an end ).
The
resulting climatic stability led to usable , profitable , large-scale
agriculture .
This led to
an explosion in human numbers .
The
Matriarchy tried to keep the lid on .
Things got ugly on both sides .
The
sub-human mutants (partially our ancestors ) won and extirpated their enemies .
The late bronze-age cataclysm was but the end stages of a 7 000 year old clash
of memes , and was correspondingly bitter.
Think Paris
Hilton vs Bill Gates .
5
.Rhythm .
Rhythm is
then a very ancient IFF mechanism .
Music is
used as a cultural defining mechanism . Era’s and societies are defined by
ephemeral harmonies .
If you like
my rhythms , we are pals .
6.
Musical instruments:
Nearly all
human instruments are characterized by causing compression waves around
fingertips in sequences and cadences .
Guitar ,
piano , flute , etc .The reason why they popular is that they are easy to play
. The reason why they are easy to play is that pattern-recognition takes place
in the fingertips .
A hardwired
threat is a cat stalking along slender bough . The cadence of a four-footed
stalk is known . The damping of vibrations along a bough of decreasing diameter
is known . The speed of the approach of the predator can then be calculated .
In music
this translates as impending threat or doom . Can you see how it goes ?
Now you too
can design threatening music that operates at instinctive level .
Finger
tapping .
This is a
variant of “Counting to ten” .
The
pressure impacts on the nail-beds causes interrupts in the amygdale ,
hippocampus and lower stem . Hence the
success of some stress therapies using fingerclicking .
You got
rhythm if you fingertap and foot/toe tap
with the music .
Fingertip to forearm tapping .
You will
not find this little item anywhere else .
Endorphin
release is proportional to fingertip-to-forearm cadences .
Instead of
tapping your fingers on the table , tap them on and around your forearms
instead in time to the music . Notice you will automatically start waving your
forearms about .
Endorphin
release is increased by orders of
magnitude .
Why ?
Your
forearm is like a branch . You are tapping your fingertips and moving your
hands and forearms in a way that signals “ Only friendlies and non-hostiles”
about .
Monkey’s
joy .
Listen to
some music that has a beat . Put your right hand on your left forearm and vice
versa . Tap your fingers on the forearms as if you are conducting like mad . Go
mad .
Try it .
Notice the
flatness if you stop . This is endorphin production being stopped . (Especially with semi9-classical music)
Notice that
you move your fingers about 3 times as frequently as your thumbs . To be more
exact , e=2.718… more frequently . The reason is obvious .
Notice that
all musicians move their instruments if they can . The pianist moves his head
and torso as he moves through the virtual canopy . Notice the contortions of a
violinist . What does the virtual monkey-mind cluster of a violinist see as she
contorts and gyrates ?
7.
Counting .
The
relationship between mathematics and music is well known .
But why ten
fingers? Many different variations have been tried .
The answer
is simple : 4 fingers + 1 thumb on each hand .
The thumb
gives a better grasp on the branch . The 4 fingers at roughly equal distances
split the harmonics of the wave on the branch . This is a physical optimization
, inherent in the nature of vibrations . A physical and mathematical law of
vibrations .
4=2^2 , 8 =
2^4 . Can you see it ?
A little
prediction : the spread of thickness of 4 fingers in homonids will optimize
natural harmonies in branches of varying taper .
This means
that the thumb is not strictly necessary for rhythm recognition . Notice that most
instruments do not require the thumb except for grasping . (Eg the guitar : the
right thumb is usually replaced by a plectrum.)
This also
means that the thumb could be used for something else , and that is what
evolutionary systems did . Thumb systems specialized in acting as reference
point for the other fingers . A weight-lifter , javelin-thrower , tennis-player
, golf-player , violin-player , etc all do the same thing : their hands analyze
the vibration-characteristics of their instrument to find the sweet-spot
relative to the other fingers .
8.
Golf:
The monkey
swings through the air and grips a branch .
The 4x2
fingers hook over to top . Immediately , IFF is done in the fingertips .
If no enemy is detected , the thumbs
hook underneath . By this time , the branch has deformed under the weight and
vibrations set up . Using the positions of the thumbs as reference points , the
vibrational characteristics of the branch is analyzed . If the monkey wants to
stay and have a firm grip , it must move
to a vibrational node of the branch (ie where the standing wave caused by it’s
weight cancels out . Usually called the Sweet Spot .) . notice that one hand
must get there first , usually overshooting . The overshooting hand is adjusted
closer to the sweet spot , then the other hand . This approximation process is
repeated until the monkey is satisfied (inside the parameter.)
It moves
its hands , the fingers frequently and the thumbs less frequently (ratio of
about 3 to 1) until it feels happy .
Now do the same
to the golf club .
If
right-handed , cradle the club lightly at balance point in the left hand with
the fingers underneath and the thumb over the top , the handle to the right .
The right hand has a light overhand grip .
Hold the
club horizontal (like a branch ) , waggle it gently up and down . With the
fingertips on the club , shift your hand alternately to the right until it
feels correct . Jiggle the right hand back to correct for overshoot .
Then lock
the right thumb in . (Note , locking the thumb is characteristic of all
golf-grips . Now you know why .)
This is the
interesting bit . While locking the right thumb in place , wriggle the left
fingers and thumb until they feel ok . The right fingers can be wriggled as
well , but not the right thumb . Do not wriggle the fingers more than 3 times
the thumbs at this stage .
9. Piano
An
interesting corollary is that you will learn the piano better and faster if you
tape the thumbs out of the way .
10
.Birds .
So why
doesn’t birds have ten toes ? They have 8 = 3x2 + 2.
Birds can
fly , so they don’t have to stick around and develop enhanced harmonic analysis
.
11.
Stochastic resonance .
The
Stochastic resonance mechanisms which evolved in the brain and hands to deal
with random branch movements due to weather was essential to the development of
language .
Lying and
an honest error cannot be distinguished
from each other . And it does not matter in the long term .
12
.Sexual Selection.
Men
look at women and see at a subconscious level :
1. Her
middle/hip ratio is about 0.75 . Enough room for babies head
2.High ,
conical breasts . They will not smother baby while suckling and running .
3.
Well-kept nails . Tactile sensitivity for baby care and nursing .
Women
look at men and see at a subconscious level :
1. A taut
bum . Good runner . Essential for good hunter .
2.Muscled
arms . Good hunter and protector .
3.
Symmetric face . Behaviour not too weird .
That’s it . The systems can only count to three .
If you want to overcome any negative impression on any one
of these factors , you will have to work
hard at it .
I was surprised to see nails pop out as an important sexual
selection criterion . Females are always buffing , colouring , shaping ,
hardening , etc nails .
Shaped nails .
Refer to magnetrons . Shaped guides to various wave-forms
can magnify the effect million-fold . Women with wave-guide shaped nails are
remnants of the old order . Good or bad ? Unfortunately , nobody can tell . But
if you run into one , run like hell .
The groove is only quantum deep , but it is coupled across
all time .
So much for this space-time .
Andre
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Appendix B
Death of an Ur-Language.
Andre
Willers
9 sep 2009
Synopsis:
Click
ur-language died out because school was too long .
Discussion :
The
fundamental problem :
Click is
both a language (ie intra-human communication) and perception modality .
Perception
Modality :
The sonar
returns of clicks had a one-to-one correspondence with reality . But this took
a long time to learn . Reality has many things to learn , plus the correlation between visual and
click systems .
Low
abstraction .
Abstraction
is usually a function of intra-human communication , not human-reality interaction .
Low
child rate .
This
follows , because it simply took a long time to train a child to become
"human" , ie pass the humanity tests .
The tests
were to Communicate , survive on his own , put group interests above personal
interests . These were tested for , using Click language . Rites of passage .
What happened :
The hidden
assumption was that Intra-human communication and Reality perception were
linked , both being Click–orientated .
The
invention of sustainable agriculture (note sustainable , ie climate stabilization)
broke this hidden assumption .
It made
large populations possible . But long childhoods with personal tuition ?
Humans
farmed off the newest children onto the oldest capable children to do the
minimum necessary rearing .
Sounds
familiar ? Iterate this for a few generations and you have peasants with
surpluses . And we are off to the civilization races .
Click-languages
vanished in the process . They survived only as Holy Languages for elites with
access to surpluses .
The
remaining human-human click languages evolved as degenerate click-languages .
Endings ,
agglutinative , tonal or combinations therof .
Amusing :
Written
forms evolved very early (see previous posts on cave paintings) . But they have
not even been recognized as writing . Though Chinese ideograms or some Egyptian
hieroglyphs could be seen as click encapsulations .
Ditto for
Sumerian incisions .
Ditto for
Peruvian quipu's.
Really amusing :
As humans
become older , they lose their aural discrimination faster than ocular discrimination
.
There is a
severe auricular limit on aural
perception .
You can see
well for longer into old age than you can hear . This finally drove the click
language into oblivion .
(Aural
frequency discrimination starts to degenerate after age 25 , ocular after age
45)
So they
threw out the baby with the bathwater .
Can the useful bits be resurrected ?
Some pieces
survived . Chi (!xi) . Yoga(!xo!xa) . As elitest remnants .
Can we revive the Ur-Click ?
No problem
. At least two complementary or el-cheapo singular pathways are known .
1.GPS (the
smarts is in the map) . It can be easily adapted into a translation map .
2.Existing
tracking maps for bushmen .
Why should we revive it ?
The
benefits .
Humans
might have been a tad overhasty in rejecting Click-languages . Abstract
languages might be fashionable , but there is something to be said for a
language that controls and monitors internal physiological processes .
The major
problem would be the long time it takes to learn it .
But see http://andreswhy.blogspot.com "
SUOS"
The process
can be speeded up by orders of magnitude .
1.Health
.
Things like
blood pressure , heartbeat , sugar levels , obesity , muscle density , etc
could be monitored and controlled by a click language via biofeedback .
Even a
simple !xi at inhalation and !xo at exhalation in an athletes training will
enhance his performance by about 1% - 10% .
2.
Music .
Music can
be seen as a poor man's version of click-music .
3. Old
cave paintings .
Make some
sense of them .
4.
Politician talk .
Paying
attention to the sounds means that at least some attention is paid to the sense
.
5.
Short term memory .
Predictable
systems are pleasing . The missing bits can be filled in with a high degree of
accuracy . Older people are then more conservative . A click system is more
predictable . So , talking to old people use more click sounds .
Actual use .
The
Algorithm .
1.Keep big
mouth closed .This is essential .
2.Click
tongue while inhaling and exhaling through nose.
Notice that
the clicking falls into a pattern : double clicks at the beginning and end of
each inhalation and exhalation . All humans will do this .
Once you
start tongue-clicking , the cadence follows . It is deeply hardwired .
3. Why does
it work ?
The double
tongue-click causes pressure fluctuations right throughout the vascular system
. This warns it that O2/CO2 fluctuations are coming . Mitochondria to prepare
4. Energy
systems adjust . They learn .
5. For how
long ?
Five
minutes . See previous posts on long-term potentiation .
6. Why not
just rely on heartbeat ?
Breath and
heartbeat are not synchronized
7. Keep big
mouth closed , and click tongue . Many problems go away .
And so it
goes .
Andre.
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