EVOLUTION AND HUMAN DESTINY 



in terms of their contents, as they are the result of gen- 

 erations of human experience and thinking. Conse- 

 quently the great majority of our concepts are in fact 

 developed as a result of the integration of experiences 

 and ideas that is taking place as the human societal or- 

 ganism is developing. 



Members of primitive cultures possess a brain poten- 

 tial equivalent to that of civilized man. However, 

 many of our concepts are completely lacking in their 

 thought processes. The language of such groups fre- 

 quently does not contain words for numbers above the 

 first few numerals. Yet, an infant removed from such a 

 group and raised in modern society will on the average 

 share the conceptual characteristics of the society he is 

 raised in. His central nervous system becomes a repos- 

 itory of some of the common knowledge of the societal 

 organism that he is a part of. 



As integration of human society proceeds, the rela- 

 tive amount of isolated thinking performed by in- 

 dividuals diminishes. Individual thinking, becomes 

 gradually replaced by a process that has aptly been 

 called "inter-thinking." 



One of the most remarkable achievements of the hu- 

 man mind is its ability to be conscious of itself and its 

 functioning. When one considers that the human or- 

 ganism, of which the central nervous system is clearly 

 a part, is in reality nothing but exceedingly elaborately 

 organized matter, consciousness represents actually a 



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