I guess the question I’ve always wondered is…..What suddenly changed that gave our ancient human ancestor the ability to start progressing intellectually that wasn’t capable of happening to any other animal….If we keep moving back in time, we as a specie decline in intelligence and brain capacity…. Where was the point in time that our brains diverged and started getting progressively smarter and what caused it??....Why were WE the only animal that benefited from whatever this event or change might have been?.....To me that would be the moment we became human and what separated us from all of the other animals…..the biting of the apple
Nothing “suddenly” happened. But introducing high caloric value food (meat), cooking methods, ability to communicate & teach the next generation so each new born doesn’t have to re-invent the wheel….all these things slowly helped us eventually rise to the top.
There had to be a point in time that something happened to start homo erectus on that journey from a 500 cc brain to the 1000 cc………Kind of like there had to be a moment in time when the first one created fire on its own……That was a defining moment in time when everything after that point changed because of it…..The same concept exists for a point in time for when homo erectus had been running around for tens of thousands of years with a 500 cc brain that changed and started the growth
One interesting aspect of this is the fact that at some point in time psychedelics came into play……and if early man was experimenting with food sources to understand what was what then it likely happened early on …..If there were any psychedelic substances available to homo erectus then you gotta assume at some point he “tripped” on them……The reason I find this to be potentially important is because something that has been noted in recent times by people experimenting with DMT is that everyone sees the same type of geometric patterns and such inside of this other world they describe no matter where they come from or their life experiences, etc……
This means that ancient humans would have been seeing the same things as well inside of that world that the hallucinogens sent them to…….To see such things as a primitive human would have stimulated all kinds of creative thinking and ideas just by seeing the geometric shapes and patterns put into motion……Its also been shown that psychedelics link up neuro pathways in the brain that were previously silent so that would have also added to the more “enlightened” human…….Me personally I don’t see how this didn’t play a role since we trace back the used of psychedelics through all of the native tribes and such in more recent times…..That all had to have started a LOOONG time ago…..Is something of that nature what triggered the original mutation??....The Bible says that we ate something we weren’t supposed to that gave us knowledge
