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Paper 11, Sapiens, by Definition
Paper 11, Sapiens, by Definition
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The existence of life conscious-of-itself as 'conscious life',
cannot tolerate symbols based on phallic fantasy and seminal
nonsense claimed to be Truth, without having the mind cluttered
and damaged. Man-as-mind/species is divisive. And does a lot of
hate-mongering. Only one is man, male.
Evolution brought about the reality we live in. With millions
of designs. From the first elemental explosion that created the
multi-planet cosmos to the multi-life-forms on earth. No Phallus,
claimed to be divine, "created" the cosmos. The clutter 'belief in
this Truth' creates harms the mind. Phallic clutter is not about
correct information. It's about bias touted as Truth.
Definitions in "mankind" are biased; few are neutral, fewer
are inclusive, even sex-specific names are tainted with bias.
Definitions are man-written in man-edited dictionaries. They're
not true-to-reality, they're not about what actually exists in our
species, they're not about caring for the mind.
A comparative examination of sexed-pairs in a dictionary
reveals the large-scale of male-bias accepted in language as
being correct, i.e., Truth. Looking at how my dictionary deals with
defining man and (wo)man the bias is obvious. 'Man' is defined
using half a page; (wo) man, a short paragraph, defined in view of
man, male. Comparing definitions, one could believe they are
'opposites'. After the initial bias, man is identified in his many and
varied major roles in society. After the initial bias, (wo) man is
identified as sexual partner, domestic help, prostitute, and even
goes into (wo)men's lib. (Concise Oxford Dictionary, 1990)
The same divisive bias holds for husband/wife.,
father/mother, brother/sister, son/daughter, sperm/ovum,
male/female(sic), etc.
In view of bias what is a definition? Does defining have rules
and regulations? To get an answer I looked at definitions of
names having no relation to sex.
femic partnership ... etc. Plus feme comedy, feme writing, feme
businesses, feme members of Parliament, feme members of
Congress, feme club members, feme thought, feme activity, feme
games, feme entrepreneurs, etc. She's an equal creative being
with man as fem in her species, by definition.
To be informative definitions must be true-to-reality. The
definition of what, we, as a species, are, must inform. We are the
ones who live conscious lives. Our definitions then, to be
informative, must be true-to-reality. False and phallic-biased
definitions have no place in our consciousness.
The purpose of a definition is to state what a sound, or
symbol, we made, means. The degree of distinctness made in a
name has to be such that the most distinguishing features or
differences must be seen to exist in reality as basis of the
definition. Any detail that distinguishes one thing from another
quite similar thing ought to go into a name. This means that rules
and regulations in defining a thing includes logic, correct causeand-effect relationship, evidence in reality, consistence, precision,
etc. For a name to be correct by definition it must respect all
aspects of reality and obey the rules of name-making respecting
reality.
Patriarchy refused to include the feme that evolved with
the same capability to think and make speech as man, and who
evolved simultaneously with the male in our species. This is the
major reason why religions are anti-evolution. Creationists
invented 'god', formerly Phallus, who zapped everything into
being, including (wo)man, a man that's not a man.
In defining our species as man, conscious life has not been
precisely defined either. Being sapiens has not been the focus of
any scientific enquiry. Being speech-makers has not been
adequately examined. Being partners in our species has not ever
been suggested. Man was, and still is, the major focus. Bias.
Up until patriarchy coined (hu) man in the 13 th Century to
replace 'sapiens', our early forebears had called us sapiens. When
we see ourselves as sapiens the definition of consciousness, and
having a 'conscious life', changes radically.
Why did our forebears coin this name? What went into this
idea? Almost every sense we have: taste, sound (hearing), touch
(feeling) and sight (experience) integrated in the mind (insight).
Sapiens is a multi-splendored symbol, compared to man, male
only. Sapiens reflects precisely what we are as animals, animals
conscious of ourselves as being minded-animals. Mind adds a
dimension to body, definitively acknowledged in the name
sapiens. The duality of mind-and-body in the basic duality fem
and man is the basis of the concept.
Sapiens: origin from metaphor of evergreen tree, sapin, Fr.,
pine, for its straight trunk. Tree, straight -> true, mind sees. Made
by infixing an 'e' in sapin, the name sapien was minted. Tree ->
true in making names related to being wise. A straight mind is
one that remains true-to-reality. It also came from being related
to taste, savourer, Fr. to taste. Sounds were "tasted" (like food) to
see if the fit was right, true-to-reality. Being "savvy" comes from
savourer, Fr., to taste, involving taste, sight and touch. The
symbol 'sage', sage, Fr., wise, comes from integrating taste,
touch, true (straight), sound, sight and mind, in the metaphor of
pine tree, to being sapiens. Being sapiens is to be wise; all the
senses are called upon to focus on naming an entity in order be
true to what one sees and experiences. What exists in reality to
make and transmit correct information to the (two) members of
our species is to be respected. It's wise to make names that are
true, names that inform us of what exists in reality to live
balanced, honest and moral conscious life.
(*L. pinus , pine, -> penis ? Appropriation of sounds in names was practiced in
patriarchy, the Sumer named the phallus god in 9000 BCE)