Life’s continuum

Yesterday I was window shopping and people watching in Inverurie. My stone age mind modules were engaged. I knew that I was foraging and that there was hunting and gathering in its computer age costume.

School age people in uniforms were regimented in classrooms by the 40 minute bell. Shop and factory workers were doing their repetitive 9 to 5 shifts. So the streets, shops and cafes were occupied by old age pensioners enjoying their retirement, and by well-dressed young mothers with babies in prams, dogs on leads and long hair streaming down their backs.

This morning I finished reading Dylan Evans and Oscar Zarate (2015) Introducing Evolutionary Psychology: a graphic guide. I give it 10 out of 10. It was part responsible for the bunch of concepts that turned up from the unconscious:

• ·         From cradle to grave.
• ·         From womb to tomb.
• ·         Enculturation by nature, nurture and serendipity.
• ·         Putting the universe back into university education.
• ·        Better ways to be human.
• ·         Mindfulness.
• ·         The paradigm shift in brain science.
•           A sheep is nature’s way of converting grass into wool.
• ·         A human being is nature’s way of …?

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Today’s version of life’s continuum - 

[Infancy, Pre-school, School, work and play, parenting, pet keeping, retirement, funeral]

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• ·         A human being is nature’s way of letting the universe be conscious of itself.
• ·         The purpose of a self-conscious universe would be …?
• ·         The purpose of an unconscious universe is …?
• ·         Argue for and against life elsewhere in the cosmos.
• ·         The purpose of life elsewhere in the cosmos might be …?
• ·         Where is purpose located?