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However, long before Ptolemy completed his celestial theory as described in his "Mathematical Composition", the geocentric system of the universe had already been adopted by the neocheating authorities of Europe. Beginning around 200 B.C., the combined political and religious power structures of the Western world undertook a systematic oppression not only of the kind of knowledge which did not suit their purpose, such as the heliocentric theory, but also of the very source of knowledge itself, the conceptuality-centered consciousness and its reasoning faculty.
The heliocentric universe did not fit into their scheme of establishing a hierarchical social structure wherein the neocheaters were to stand at the center of the universe. The geocentric universe did. Thus, the heliocentric system was slowly eliminated from the face of the Earth and the geocentric theory gained prominence. Their success in oppressing the heliocentric system and other valid knowledge, and in establishing the geocentric hierarchy, gradually prepared Europe for the Dark Ages and drew the curtains on science for over 1700 years. It was not until the rise of business/commerce took place in Europe toward the end of the Middle Ages, which brought about the propagation of the zero along with the place-value number system, that the light of reason finally shone through the darkness of the human mind and raised the curtains of science at long last.
How could the political/religious master neocheaters be so successful in their scheme as to be able to suppress human knowledge and consciousness for over 1700 years? The answer lies, at least in part, in the very nature and propensity of human consciousness.
The process of life consists of awareness and self-creation. In contradistinction to nonliving systems such as the celestial system, all living systems from amoebae to human beings possess two distinguishing characteristics which constitute life. They are autopoiesis (self-creation, production, or generation) and awareness or cognition, which ranges from the most primitive form of awareness such as amoebae's stimulus-response to the highest form of cognition -- conscious human awareness. Autopoiesis and cognition are the two quintessences of life without which no life is possible. Moreover, autopoiesis and cognition are interdependent of, and integral to, one another. That is, neither can exist without the other.
Conscious life is the highest integration and expression of the autopoietic cognitive living process. Consciousness is the most complex form of cognition which is distinctly different from any other mode of cognition found in other sentient beings. Consciousness came into existence on this planet about 3000 years ago and human beings achieved consciousness not as a product of nature's evolutionary process but as an autopoietic reorganization of their cognitive systems. Consciousness was a discovery and an engineered invention of human beings. Therefore, no change took place in the physical structure of the brain but only in the structural organization of the mind.
Nature's process of evolution had ultimately brought to human beings what is termed the bicameral mind, and it was in the cognitive breakdown of the bicameral mind that consciousness first originated. The bicameral mind was a highly evolved and intelligent cognitive system that operated with language, percepts, and rudimentary/imaginary concepts, yet with complete automaticity. In the bicameral mind, one hemisphere of the brain, guided by the inherent logic of nature, organized the whole inventory of information from the past in an automatic, non-introspective, and non-self-referential manner, and communicated some of that information to the other hemisphere for decision-making or action.
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