User:Jtwsaddress42/Projects/Project 7/Sections/Chapter 1/Phase I - Animism - A World Imbued with Spirit (~150,000 ya)

Elements of the World are believed to be animate, imbued with spirit, the breath of life.


 * Linguistic Expansion of Gestural Repertoire - Narrative Episodic Memory
 * Memory is not for recalling the past but rather a way learning from the past
 * Thought as linguistic emotion, emotions as non-linguistic thought
 * Culture - Culture As Ancestor Knowledge Transmission
 * Symbolic Enculturation - Symbol linking cultural value systems to emotional value systems via reciprocal co-engagement between care giver and child.
 * There are two sides to the symbol:
 * External - tuned to the environment/Iconic
 * Internal - tuned to state of the individual as reflected by their emotional affect in their environs/Hedonic