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The history of hitherto existing societies⁵² has been the prisoner of three stern gaolers Language, Consciousness and Reason.

The imprisoned are

Vision, the Automatic and Emotion.

Language

confines

Vision

Consciousness

effaces

The Automatic

Reason

corrals

Emotion⁵³

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Emotion

Emotion is the key

The brain is Emotion

Emotion is the brain⁵⁴.

Emotion ignites the brain.

Emotion fuels the brain.

Emotion is the motor of the brain.

The brain works through Emotion

Emotion is the raw-material of the brain

The brain thinks Emotionally.

Emotion is the function of the brain

Emotion is the reason the brain exists⁵⁵ Emotion is the reason the brain adapts.

Emotion is the matter of life and death

Emotion is the motor of evolution

Emotion is the motor of survival.

Emotion is survival

The source of Emotion is survival

survival is Evolution⁵⁶

Emotion is nature

Emotion is not Reasonable

Emotion has its Reasons

The Logic of Emotion

Is the Logic of Nature

The Logic of Nature is Emotion

Emotion without Reason

No Reason without Emotion

Emotion within scientific method

a revolution

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The Automatic

The Automatic is what is not Conscious

The Automatic is the un-conscious⁵⁷

The Automatic is outside the Conscious

The Conscious is a pin in the Albert Hall

The Automatic is the Albert Hall

The Automatic merits its own term

The Automatic is a positive

(un-conscious is a negative)

The Automatic is the brain⁵⁸ The brain is the Automatic

The Automatic is three hundred million billion connections

The Automatic is eleven million bits per second

(The Conscious is ten bits per second⁵⁹)

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Vision

Vision is the noblest of the senses

Vision is the prime sense

(Language is translation)

Vision is Automatic

(Consciousness is Non-Automatic)

Vision is Emotion⁶⁰

(No Reason without Emotion)

The Tragedy of Vision

is that we take it for granted

What we know of the World comes from Vision

The world we see

Is the only world we know⁶¹

Vision sees everything

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Vision and Language

Vision is the major sense

(Ten million bits per second)

Language is the minor sense

(Ten bits per second)

The brain operates through Vision not Language

Vision sees more

Vision sees better

Vision sees faster

Vision sees further

Our wisdom

Is the wisdom of Vision

The Matter of Vision is Emotion

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Vision and thought

Vision is the medium of thought

Thought occurs in Vision

Thought occurs only in Vision

(Thought does not occur in language)

Thought is produced in Images

Thought is not produced in Language

Thought does not originate in Language

Thought is translated into Language

Thought exceeds Language

as

Vision exceeds Language

Language aspires to the condition of Vision

Vision sees into another’s mind

– Automatically

Empathy is Automatic

Empathy is unavoidable

Empathy is unconscious

The ineluctable modality of the Visible

Thought through my eyes⁶²

Thought is Vision

I see therefore I am

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The Articulation of Vision

Vision is Automatic

Language is a retreat

Wordless storytelling is natural⁶³

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Language

Language the enemy of Vision

Language puts itself above Vision

Language wants to forget its evolution

Language evolved from warning cries⁶⁴

Language translates Vision

Language translates Vision

Language approximates Vision

Language always fails Vision

Language has ten bits per second

Vision ten million

Language should serve Vision

Language is contingent

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Consciousness⁶⁵

Consciousness an effect not a cause⁶⁶

Consciousness a pin in the Albert Hall

(William James)

Consciousness the tip of the iceberg

(Freud)

Consciousness (as we know it) does not exist⁶⁷

Consciousness serves the Automatic⁶⁸

Consciousness handles at most 50 bps

and averages 10 bps

(Vision has 10 million)

Consciousness an effect of the brain⁶⁹

Consciousness is material

(anything else is mysticism)

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Reason

Man rationalises

he does not Reason

Reason is never autonomous

(Kant’s Categorical Imperative)

Reason is always dependent upon Emotion

(Hume 1739, Damasio 1994)

Man is never reasonable

The brain is emotion not reason.

Reason is a noble ambition

(but never achievable)

Reason v subjectivity

Science is founded in Reason

Reason + Emotion = New Science

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Reason and Nature

Nature has its reasons

Nature is not Reason

Nature has no plan

Nature is not teleological

Nature has direction but not ends

Nature is not rational

(in Man’s terms)

Man has too often turned his back on the Logic of Nature

The logic of evolution

is the Logic of Nature

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The brain

The brain selects the Conscious⁷⁰

The brain selects survival from information⁷¹

The brain directs Consciousness to survival⁷²

The mode of the brain is Emotion

Emotion concerns survival

Survival motivates the brain

The Brain evolved as survival

Ne plus ultra

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Narrative

Narrative is the native mode of the brain

Narrative is the gods’ perfect engine of meaning

Narrative is not truth but representation

Narrative interprets information for survival

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Evolution

Evolution is nature

Evolution is survival

Nothing in Neuroscience makes sense outside evolution

ix (a)

Cultural evolution

Culture is nature

Nothing is beyond nature

Culture is evolution

Everything in culture comes from evolution

From culture to nature:

Cinema

ix (b)

Art & science

Science explains art via Emotion

Neuroscience shows art is material

The Two Cultures are one

A science of culture

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A Short History of Philosophy

Hume declared Reason dependent on Emotion

Kant declared Reason Categorically independent

Kant’s Idealism licenses Hegel’s Castles of Abstraction

France abandons Port Royal for German Idealism

Philosophy has turned its back on nature

The ‘unreasonable ineffectiveness of Philosophy’

results

Reason is contingent upon Emotion

(Damasio)

Reason has no independence

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Philosophy & science

Kant declares Philosophy has an equal truth to science

Philosophy turns its back on nature

If every idea is testable in principal

Philosophy returns to nature

The superiority of science to (an autonomous) Philosophy

Testing is no panacea

No Testing is ‘a tumbling ground for whimsies’

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Instinct & knowledge

Unwritten knowledge exceeds written knowledge

Informal knowledge exceeds formal knowledge

Tacit knowledge is concrete

Infinitely more wisdom

in tacit knowledge

than in the Academy