Sunday, December 21, 2008

Pan Paniscus: A Communicative Species' Science, and Loving Bliss

A communicative species' science? How would this work? What would it help to understand that isn't fully understood in all the different, academic disciplines that study communication in different species? Terrence Deacon's "The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of the Brain and Language" would be key for understanding human communication here. A communicative species' academic discipline would include the human sciences (anthropology, sociology, political science, etc.), but also privilege the communication process, thus including Bonobo chimps, common chimps, {the genera Pan (chimpanzee: paniscus & troglodytes)}, Pongo (orangutan: pygmaeus & abelii), Gorilla (gorilla: gorilla & beringei), as well as Homos' (homo: homo sapien ~ human), and dolphins, whales, ants, and bees, etc. I'm particularly interested in what we might learn about thinking from higher primates' communication, {including us}.

I'm also interested in questions of how loving bliss {with ecstasy, MDMA, naturally, as a reference experience} might operate communicatively, and for individual bodyminds {organisms} among each of these species, including us, and how one might thoughtfully draw comparisons and contrasts. How might one examine the neurophysiology of loving bliss among communicative species, and also study the related neurophysiology? How might we, with this knowledge, then, begin to elicit loving bliss fully among humans, and potentially in conjunction with other species?

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