Published: 2018-10-051

Omfalos and Arbor Mundi i.e. Selection of Behaviour in Border Situations

Henryk Kliszko
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.1308

Abstract

Both the choice of behaviours on the level of the individual mind as well as on the level of individual cells of the immune system are running according to the requirements of the maximum effectiveness rule with a view of preserving the existence also in border situations. The population logic of the Darwinian sequence of natural selection is a common principle of those choices: the proliferation, selection and survival, together with the formula – „the winner takes it all”. These choices, once adopted, are undergoing automatization and thus, do not require the direct participation of consciousness which results in an increase of conscious reflection. Thus, it can focus more easily on still unknown and unexplored problems. In neuro-science this mechanism is called „the somatic marker”. The way it comes into existence and its functioning reflect the structure of the human body nervous system on the basis of the crossing of axes of both systems: central and autonomous. They are creating the universal form of relations, common to both the most general map of the human body and to the structure of the mind copying this map, as well as all signs which serve to construct and interpret the images of the world and the outer space in which the hu- man being lives. It is possible to show the fundamental, synchronous and diachronic compatibility of the shape and the development of the human body written in every human cell, with the universal form of every sign and the form and functioning of all cultural facts (institutions, myths) and of individual minds and societies.

Keywords:

A. Damasio, D. Dennett, C. Levy-Strauss, R. Jacobson, Ch. Peirce, R. Barthes, J. Le Doux, B. Malinowski, M. Eliade, J. Konorski, neuroscience, neurophilosophy, sign, meaning, culture, border situations, stress, brain, Artificial Intelligence, symbol, myth

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Kliszko, H. (2018). Omfalos and Arbor Mundi i.e. Selection of Behaviour in Border Situations. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (14), 219–252. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.1308

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