{"id":549,"date":"2016-10-10T19:35:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T19:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/impcon.org\/?page_id=549"},"modified":"2017-03-13T16:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T16:06:56","slug":"lecture-five-the-istruct-mind","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/impcon.org\/?page_id=549","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 5:: The Istruct Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to a pan-temporal anomaly that has curtailed the presence of Professor A\u030arnstay\u2019s and her Zen Dyson research team in this space-time,\u00a0lecture five is only available as textual notes. <\/span><\/p>\n

We believe that real-time holographics were to accompany lectures five and six. Some argue\u00a0that Professor\u00a0A\u030arnstay will \u00a0return when such visualization tools are chronistically\u00a0available.<\/span><\/p>\n

3,000 BCE – 2000 CE<\/h3>\n

The <\/span>Istruct<\/span> Mind is the reigning mind configuration for about ~5K years.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Its success can be seen in steady then explosive population growth and in ever-increasing group size – cities, nations, empires, globalization.<\/span> <\/span>It is characterized by the take-over of the left side of the brain – the language processes that evolved to handle the social group –<\/span> <\/span>now enhanced by narrative operations that form the conscious self and are fabulous additions to the social toolset for managing the intentions and behaviors of others.<\/span> <\/span>Left brain domination works well in this <\/span>erea<\/span> because the greatest threat to the survival of humans over these millennia is other humans.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet as this <\/span>erea<\/span> draws to a close, as the <\/span>Istruct<\/span> mind configuration faces rapidly changing environmental conditions, human beings are again whirled towards Catastrophe!<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

I cannot and will not pretend to talk to you about this <\/span>erea<\/span> – it is your own, you are the experts!\u00a0<\/span>But I want to give one mundane example of how powerfully the new story-building cognitive faculty allows humans to endure\/float in the kind of extreme circumstances demanded by the huge group structures of the <\/span>Istruct<\/span> <\/span>erea<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

[missing holographic media]<\/p>\n

Consider all these people crammed into a subway car, consider the many levels of narrative that keep us in here without freaking out – (we’re wild animals!) <\/span><\/p>\n