(220) Retrieving the unconscious (Convergence Theory)

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The tragic cauliflower brain of Homo sapiens

The more cauliflower brain humans develop the bigger their unconscious is growing. There has been a moment in the evolution that humanlike creatures possessed only the basic display of a fairly rational brain. I think Homo naledi (2.3 Ma - 335ka; 550cc) might be a pretty good example:

But it is Homo sapiens who accelerated to an abnormal brain with billions of excessive nerve connections making any overview impossible. Humans had to develop a pointer of consciousness not to drown in a sea of unconscious madness. In the past, this pointer was named 'the Homunculus' in psychology. The Homunculus is just a concept to underline the perceived impossibility to control the cauliflower brain. As a wild guess people thought 90% of their brain is unconscious, but it must be much more:

'Billions of excessive nerve connections make any overview impossible'. In principle the conscious is not better than the unconscious, but at least it has the possibility of bringing some order in the stream of thoughts. The unconscious is a hormonally controlled dump of feelings and experiences, a wild and not understood mess of information which does not get any attention of the conscious. Information can be suppressed or simply is not perceived. Anything is possible in the unconscious and its best qualification is we don't know how information is processed:

But, guess what, if an individual thinks magically in his conscious, then it will not be any better in his unconscious. On the other hand, if a person is an outspoken bèta, well maybe his unconscious has about the same rules, but we don't know. As a conservative rule, at best there may be associations between feelings and concepts:

So, because we don't know how the unconscious processes information we must be cautious not to disqualify. There might be associative rules connecting concepts which we simply don't know. Therefore, we better decide to configurations without specified connections other than associations. For example, we might place this into the unconscious:

Then, we about randomly place this expression of hereditary genes of human religion in the unconscious. They lay somehow together:

And if we ever succeed to activate the stream of thought from the subconscious to the conscious we might hope this constellation moves further into the subconscious:

Well, it already looks better although we still have no think rules. But in the subconscious we slightly feel an associative Gestalt for which we must seek the logical rules in the conscious. So, we made substantial progress.

Drawn into the conscious, subconscious concepts remain associative constellations of unprocessed impressions unless we can specify how they are related, by rational or irrational thinking:

The Convergence Theory of Paradise

Reading the Paradise story after a lifetime of sinning gave me a shock of recognition. Of course I had always felt religion has something to do with sex. Of course Eve with the Serpent was adultery, it was so obvious. 

14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

15 And I will put enmity between thee (the Serpent, BD) and the woman (Eve), and between thy seed (thy tribe) and her seed (her tribe); it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Reading the myth completely I saw my truth in it:

Hereafter we conclude that the common factor between sexuality and religion must be inbreeding. And that the causal relation is immortality caused by inbreeding. (The yellow band is the common factor: Inbreeding).

(228) Replacing the Convergence Theory of Paradise

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Explanation table Convergence Theory
This theory from:

(9) The Convergence Theory of Paradise

has been replaced by:

(228) Replacing the Convergence Theory of Paradise

Our first theory was that the Tree of Knowledge offered the choice to inbreeding or outbreeding. But now we developed a slightly better one, though not really different:

The right interpretation is the Tree of Knowledge leads to outbreeding and the Tree of Life to inbreeding. Therefore we have Eve - as a woman - eating from the Tree of Outbreeding in the Tanakh and Adam - as a man - eating from the Tree of Inbreeding in the Koran. 

With advanced knowledge it's no big deal. Both views are legitimate.

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The trees are like vectors in space. Within 6 symbolic iterations they converge to their basic dimension: Inbreeding and incest. On this factor they must capitalize most of their common variance.

In sociological sense, paradise myth is the blueprint of morality in human culture. Norms and values, customs and habits are expressed on the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. These rules prescribe mandatory an appropriate lifestyle to attain immortality on the Tree of Life. Hence, religious systems optimize eternal life like economics maximizes prosperity.

Therefore the myth says that the Tree of Knowledge provides the right knowledge to reach immortality on the Tree of Life. In this version adultery and refusal of arranged marriages are prohibited. Because inbreeding and incest offers the only way in which males can obtain genetic immortality and/or reincarnation into the (earthly) universe.

Later in the evolution reincarnation has been substituted for genetic immortality:

Explanation table Convergence Theory

First of all, note that in this analysis, there is a stepped effect: The first effect is the genetic immortality of men (brown numbers 2,3,4), which is expressed in the number of descendants by the prohibition of adultery. A quantity attribute.

In addition comes an inbreeding effect. It is the purification of the family genes

(yellow 5,6). This relates to the nature of the descendants. A quality feature.

Here we place the origin of the paradise story to the Homininae (7 Ma; 400cc). The yellow area is the sex-religion factor in the mind of men. Here, the first thoughts about sexuality and immortality in his unconscious came together. It is the primal dimension of sexual religiosity. All other human ethics - as is assumed here - emerged  from this ground dimension of ethics.

Metaphor: Eating the good (inbreeding) from the tree of knowledge will give earthly immortality of the gene pool of the man in his own tribe. But who eats from evil (outbreeding) will remain mortal, meaning his genes will spread over all other tribes, so he loses tribal identity. Then the tribe will die as group identity:

(Actually, inbreeding was attained by eating from the Tree of Life and outbreeding from the Tree of Knowledge.)

Next, we find the ultimate agreement between sexuality and religion in the yellow area in the middle as the sex-religion factor. This is referred to as convergence. But as a Gestalt, it is more than the parts.

There arises something new, an inbreeding factor. This was not expected in the analysis but resulted as an inevitable consequence of the technique chosen. The factor was found by the methodological principle that quantity (number of offspring) mostly is accompanied by quality (saturated inbreeding).

Literally: Who lets his wife not commit adultery will acquire earthly immortality. His genes will live on into her children. But who lets her commit adultery will possibly die out in the genes of her children.

Of course there is more which is associated with adultery, as the wounded pride and honor of the man. These feelings come together on the sex-religion factor as well as sexual lust. All these feelings are an additional basis for stoning. However, they do not contribute to a full explanation of paradise story. Therefore adultery is only an inadequate interpretation of this narrative. But along with genetic immortality and inbreeding there is a complete fit.

My subconscious thoughts

Reading the paradise story after a lifetime of sinning gave me a shock of recognition. Of course I had always felt religion has something to do with sex. Of course Eve and the Serpent was adultery, it was so obvious. Reading the myth completely I immediately saw my truth in it.

Until then, I had only recognized the connection between sex and religion. I did not see the role of inbreeding. But as a statistician I knew that quantities always have a natural component of quality. And while I made the Convergence Table I knew before that quantity (fertility stress) was an insufficient ground to explain religion:

It took me five days of painstaking thinking before I found the 'quality'- element in inbreeding. But it was a counter intuitive sort of quality. And from that moment I found closure with common sense where inbreeding between Adam and Eve sets the tone. But the Serpent was the antipode of Adam, so the real plot had to be inbreeding versus outbreeding:





14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

15 And I will put enmity between thee (the Serpent, BD) and the woman (Eve), and between thy seed (thy tribe) and her seed (her tribe); it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

(Off the record, it took me years to realize that the Alpha male actually practices inbreeding and incest. But this has no damaging effect in nature, since he is in charge only for a very short time and females are adulterous by nature:

But this changes considerably for humans, for Muslims, for cousin marriages, for inbreeding over many generations.)

Now, while reading the Paradise narrative I recognized an associative system in my subconscious, a Gestalt, without think rules. Now I had to find the right way of thinking to understand how human religion works:

I managed to find my truth, hidden into more than 300 integrated assumptions.

BTW, The Convergence Theory of Paradise was my first article without any assumption yet. All those years I have been busy to find a logical model for this subconscious observation. And it never stops. When I think, that's it, then the other day it starts again. I think if you start to find a rationale for subconscious observations, then the unconscious runs out of your mind:

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