Perhaps the most important point in neuroevolutionary mythology is the introduction of myth not as a symbolic language, but as a lived experience. Mythologists’ treatment of myth as a symbolic language causes myth to be considered unique to Homo sa ...
Perhaps the most important point in neuroevolutionary mythology is the introduction of myth not as a symbolic language, but as a lived experience. Mythologists’ treatment of myth as a symbolic language causes myth to be considered unique to Homo sapiens and many of its aspects to be neglected. But in neuroevolutionary mythology, myth is a form of consciousness and lived experience in the world. Therefore, any organism that can have a conscious experience of the world will also be mythic. This leads to the history of mythic experience being considered far beyond Homo sapiens and the claim that wherever there is consciousness, mythic experience also occurs. So the history of myth is intertwined with the history of consciousness, so myth tells us a lot about consciousness. This book deals with this very issue, what is the relationship between myth and consciousness, and if myth has been intertwined with consciousness in this way throughout its evolutionary history,
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