“Becoming aware of the social and biological conditions that underpin our actions can, it seems, help each of us develop our competencies and understand and manage our cognitive facilities.” (pp.160)
Developing a cognitive-map, a self-imaging process. Memetics – information stored in the memory bank of society. The self- image is a reconstruction of fragmentary data, filtered through largely unconscious processes. Information stored as logos (history) forms a hermeneutic exegesis of our human cultural history, which is an extension of the cognitive-map. Social cognition reflects the structure and hierarchy of the human brain. A hall of mirrors. Of Mirrors. Reflection and replication of memes – like DNA. THe human world is fit together by the fusion of an invisible soul. Mentalization is key to our cognition (built-in intersubjectivity). From mans synergetic roots, we have had the capacity to mirror – to empathize – with our environment. A symbiosis between predator and prey, internalization of the mind-state of the place and place-beings of our environment.