How's this for beginning an account of linguistic human consciousness' origins? Tell me what you think!


The common ancestor of humans, anthropoids and primates was a nonsyntactically vocalizing species of much less intelligence, closer to a small monkey than an ape or our own Homo genus. Some precursory factors that would template the human mind include enlarged size of the head and body, allowing expansion of the brain as well as safety and competency for recreational thinking in a greater range of environments, an omnivorous, relatively high protein diet which fueled more metabolically demanding cognition, and cooperative socialization channeling increased conceptualizing into communicative behavior. These dynamics are found in many species besides humans, and of course few of them are anywhere close to linguistic, though most do make meaning-laden utterances. What separates human morphology from the rest of the pack is probably motor coordination for grasping objects, the outcome of ancestral tree dwelling over the course of many million years. As the primate lineage that would become anthropoids bulked up in body mass and, excepting the gibbon line of descent, transitioned to a more land-based existence, mutating physiques were gradually streamlined for a division of labor between walking and handling items with the forelimbs. Humanity’s Homo ancestors must have adapted well to covering long distances while carrying loads, for once bipedalism began to take root, evolution only accentuated it. Intention, communalism, technical problem-solving, commuting, bodily function in general were oftentimes absorbed in acquiring, manipulating and sorting items with the hands as a matter of necessity, preference and recreationality, so that language would coevolve with both a strong sensibility for tactile structure and propensity to curiously scrutinize visual details.

What would become human language began to coalesce as utterance was influenced by the growing collection of closely inspected, more intricately known objects, producing discrete sounds we call phonemes which more consistently and then systematically designated particular phenomena. Phonetics were also molded by facets of underlying protologicality, the linearity of thought that seems common to all especially linguistic species at the least, most likely originating far in the past, probably before extinction of the dinosaurs. Collections of particulars and their specific features recognized by the Homo genus increased in breadth, alongside gains in intelligence which made interaction with environments more technological as hominin minds piloted bodies to engage in form-giving behavior for the sake of crafting and utilizing objects as tools, so that technical insights conjoined with distinctly sequential protologicality, altogether enriching and resolving thought into a uniquely precise and concretized kind of self-expressing introspectiveness. It is at this point that unusually advanced conceptual thinking of the Homo genus started to exact selection pressure on vocalization to assume much greater structure as more or less syntactical permutations of grammarlike speech, a period associable with the language-sufficing throat which may have developed sometime between Homo ergaster’s origins and the Neanderthals.

So as phenomenal attributes of perception became more and more subject to protologicality of both linear and structuralizing types, the nature of introspection shifted somewhat from stream of consciousness and towards the self’s deliberate reasoning process responsible for managing technical behaviors and social meanings. Apparitions of the qualitative mind could be better harnessed for practical purposes, with imagination waxing increasingly organized, capacitated to analytically observe, define and modify environments to suit its ends. Blending of incisive protologicality into phenomenality strengthened the cognitive complexing that conceives relations of cause and effect independently from instantiational anchorage in the directly inspected world, and elements of mind which envision pure possibilities and nonexistent entities began to carve out a cognitive domain of hypothetical concepts via runaway introspective imagining. Conditions of greater leisure won by applying surplus problem-solving perspicacity synergized with this reflection, providing greater opportunity for the self to ideate entirely unincarnated, unsubstantiated and speculative realities by thinking, sometimes intermingling these conceptualizations with the apparent environment. Libido was increasingly channeled towards creativity and goal-setting behavior of a biologically unprecedented kind by extremely active and physiologically imperious consciousness.