The radiations of animal languages.

 

Evolution of languages has existed on Earth from an earlier biological age to that of human beings. Indeed, the nature of evolution of species on Earth, was also linguistic. There was a first age of smelling species, when olfactory languages became dominant. And trilobites dominated the Earth. Then it came an age of visual species, when images created visual forms in the minds of animals. And the first eye-species cephalopods, followed by chordates, became the kings of creation. As visual capacity grew, new top predator species with better eyes substituted old top predators. Finally apes developed stereoscopic vision and became top predators.

A Biological radiation is the fundamental concept that allows us to organize the evolution of human languages in the Universe.

A radiating species soon becomes the top predator of a organic space, a territory, where it will feed, reproduce its form, and organize through communication, complex systems of distribution of energy and information among its clonic species.

Yet a top predator can never totally control the open Universe.

So within his ecosystem, and territory, in which the species or clonic radiation has established itself, there are certain creative mutations, that bring a new, rival species into being. A new radiation starts, which drives the previous radiations into extinction. It is what we call the Oedipus paradox, since the new species normally comes from the previous species. There first existed anaerobic bacteria. These mutated into aerobic bacteria which used oxygen and destroyed the anaerobic world. Those bacteria were displaced by plants, of rigid structure that allowed social evolution among cells, and the apparition of networks of energy and information of greater size. Plants again were displaced by animals, able not only of using light as a source of energy [chlorophyll process] but also as a source of information. The first eye-animal, the squid extinguished 90% of the species of the pre-cambric age. The evolution of sea animals in the sea created new species, amphibian and reptiles, that became top predators in the Jurassic Age. They developed better eyes in the air space of land ecosystems. Then when reptiles returned to the water, their eyes made them top predators.

Fishes had been unable despite its better body and highly evolved smelling capacity to defeat cephalopods with huge eyes that had survived the radiation of Fishes. Now reptiles coming back to water had better eyes than squids.  We know it because the ictosaurius that dominated the sea in this age, had the biggest marine eye ever found. The second is that of the giant squid...

Yet again the Oedipus paradox was at work, and the 'sons' of dinosaurs with better nervous/informative systems extinguished them. Indeed, mammals that  came from small dinosaur species, probably extinguished dinosaurs. Humans that extinguish mammals, come from the mammals. Robots that might extinguish mankind is a creation of human beings.

 

The radiations of human languages.

 

 This process of evolution and extinction of species based in languages also happens in History. Among men now visual languages, allow the design of technological forms, based in liens of energy (weapons). And the best visual weapons give power to the owners of those weapons that become dominant species.

Indeed. The first radiation of visual technology was that of the Australopithecus, men of minimal brain evolution, which used simple lineal stone technology.

We call that radiation, the lower Paleolithic.

Then a new species changed all (replaced), son of the Homo Australopithecus, the Homo Erectus, which almost doubled the size of his informative organ or brain, appears. With that new organ of information, he designs better visual lines, better weapons. So he hunts more. He eats more and grows more. He expands his numbers, that colonize the Earth till extinguishing the Homo Australopithecus. It is what we call the Middle Paleolithic.

 

A new language: The Radiation of Eve, the verbal age.

 

Then around 143.000 BC, appears the Homo Sapiens Sapiens. We know that because in genetic clocks, there is a mitochondrial Eve born in those dates from where we all come. So we are a product of the radiation of Homo Sapiens, which appeared in Africa. This new human radiation has a bigger brain than the Homo Erectus, and probably because of his foreHead development it has verbal power, to organize hordes of hunters, unlike the Neanderthal.

I think therefore I am defines indeed man, it defined at least potentially all men that became modern when the first Eve acquired a brain able to speak.

Women learn sooner to talk, they talk more, they are 'temporal species' who manage better verbal, temporal commands, who have cyclical forms, who remember better, who discovered the cycles of agriculture.

Sexes is a morphological differentiation that specializes each sex, in a language of basic perception. Women perceive better time, information with words. Men perceive better space, and eye-information, mathematics. This has genetic, biological and historical proves, analyzed extensively in other books of this author. So it is very likely that the first 'human being' able to speak was a woman. There was an Eve which started the human species, a Universal organism, ruled as all Universal organism by a mind of information. In the case of man, a verbal mind. "I think therefore I am".

 

It is then when the history of human languages starts. Since among the big apes, one developed a new language of temporal nature, words.

To the point that most biologists consider the first man the first Homo that could talk. Probably the Neanderthal with a tonal scale of very few sounds (e-o vowels and consonants) was such first man. With words came culture and the temporal perception of man - concepts such as life and death.

Then as the phonic system developed fully, the Homo Sapiens Sapiens, the first Homo species with five vowels created languages as we know, and became top predator of Neanderthals. He started the present age of verbal languages, of sound species, commanded by human beings. Finally man himself - according to the Oedipus Paradox - has developed mathematics, machines and the digital language of numbers they speak...

So we can follow in the geological scale the evolution of languages, and its species through those languages.

- The age of smelling languages, or age of 'insects' in water (Cambric or age of trilobites) and land (Carboniferous or age of Insects) followed by the age of...

- Visual languages, or age of cephalopods and fishes in the sea; and age of Reptiles and mammals on the land.

- The age of Sound languages, or age of Cetaceans in the sea, and age of humans on the land...

- The age of digital languages, or age of machines.

All this said we can do a simple analysis of the 3 ages of human languages, as humans evolved their informative capacity, and new languages substituted as top predators, previous languages, till provoking the final extinction of all human languages by digital languages.

We have described now the elements and parameters, the properties and ages of the universal and human languages of perception of space and time.

Now we will study the birth, evolution maturity and death of those human languages, and their remains, the 'art' of the human mind.

The superiority of man over other Earth's species was caused by the evolution of our two mental languages, visual, spatial information and verbal, temporal information. So we will escape the previous smelling and skin languages of perception, that controlled the information of lower animals, but are highly irrelevant to the history of mankind.

Such visual=spatial and verbal=temporal evolution  of information in man gave birth to some basic human languages, of which finally mathematical languages imposed themselves over all other languages. We talk of a series of languages, arts and human subspecies that became dominant one after another, as each of those languages lost their top predator status. Then the language no longer was considered 'sacred', 'truth', 'survival', but became fiction, 'decorative', 'profane':

 

- Pictorial languages [Homo Pictus]. Or age of simple images, which catered to the light senses of the first men. It was a sacred language in the age of the Caves, when magicians painted animals and thought those images to be truth, and able to bring hunting to their tribes. Then as words became over powerful, pictorial languages became fiction, decorative...

 

- Music Languages [Homo Harmonicus] which cater to the feelings, body senses. We ignore the sacred age of Music. Yet probably took place very earlier, as it happened among Paleolithic tribes in Africa that used musical rituals to bring the spirits of ancestors and invoke Gods. Today is obviously a fictional language, that entertains, and even degrades the mental state of humans, specially children, connected to computerized music, dancing 'acid house' with drugs or dreaming of fantasy emotions with love songs - as vulgar as it might seem to affirm those topic truths of modern society.

 

Both earlier spatial-temporal (image-sound languages) evolved into:

- Verbal languages [Homo Socialis] which cater to the feelings, and human senses, to the communication among men, and the social evolution of individuals into complex societies. They became sacred in the Neolithic. They allowed the organization of Human masses into complex social structures, social Gods and ideologies that increase the cohesion of a human mass, and hence the survival of a culture against the hostile Universe.

Now religious thought is in decadence, and words are mainly  fictional... as men no longer believe in words but in numbers and computers.

 

- Mathematical Languages in human support [Homo Scientificus]. The age of the language of machines

 

The Paleolithic Birth of man. Homo Pictus Dramaticus.

 

On those views, the Paleolithic, the age of images, signs, music and simple worlds is the first age of human mental evolution. Man in this age is at the beginning of its mental development.

The image age of signs, mimic-acting and painting, is the dramatic, 'impressionist' age of the Paleolithic.

 

The language of images. Form and color.

 

In dramatic thought, the eye and the language of visual perception of the Homo Pictus are dominant, yet since they only perceive space, human temporal compression only extends to the reach of simplex sounds and verbal forms.

The intelligence of images is common to all animal species, since the age of the squid. Its Universal grammar is simple: images have two parameters, one of information called precisely 'form', and one of energy called color.

Things with a lot of form, have a lot of information, of internal form-in-action , which means they are complex, evolved species, that call the attention of the eye.

On the other hand, things which are red and have bright and clear colors are energy species.

While things with blue, obscure colors are informative species.

Those codes are Universal. They are the intelligence of light. They correspond to the laws of morphology that we have studied in the first chapters of this book.

So species which are able to see, have a natural intelligence, that their survival instincts interpret to help the visual eye-species to survive.

At the same time the same color codes are used to motivate and express actions.

So the first eye species of the Earth, the squid developed a language of communication based in visual colors. Squids get red when they are angry, and excited. They show blue and purple colors to express informative states of social evolution, desire to reproduce, or fear of some top predator species. The codes of colors of the squid are the codes of colors of the Universal eye, in their most primitive form.

Also the same codes of colors are innate in the first metallic species designed by man, in robots.

Today young Scientists make contests with their robots : cars with camera-eyes that drive perfectly, and can even park, helicopters that capture balls in the air, robotic secretaries that go around rooms ordering papers. In their contests of sentient machines, American Universities have imposed a restriction of points: red colors, the color of blood, are not permitted for eye-recognition purposes. Since computers tendencially perceive=like more that color, the color of energy.

The Universal will of bodies and minds naturally likes energy. The body feeds on energy species. So red is the color of blood, your energy network, of meat, the food that gives you better nutrients. Those colors are a survival code imposed by the mind. They are fruit of a Universal grammar of light. Your eye tendencially like the robotic eye, or the eye of the animal [bull fighting] moves towards red, yellow, clear, bright colors, which are the natural colors of the sun, the mother of your eye-energy. The outcome of that tendency is that species who follow the intelligence of the light, tend to be 'violent hunters', that search for blood.