Homo Sapiens Medusa
Anatomy and physiology
Homo Sapiens Medusa practice an extended and deep breathing (inhalation approximately three minutes, exhalation two). They have bigger lungs and at least double the amount of alveoli compared to Homo Sapiens Sapiens. This is why they also have an enlarged chest cavity.
Presumptions suggest that the medulla oblongata is particularly well developed in medusa humans, although there is no visible evidence of this.
Specifics of breathing
This particular way of breathing seems to influence their thinking. We are told that they think much less, and find themselves in complex states of emptiness. Energetically, they seem to be much more permeable than we are—more membranous. Medusa individuals are said to float in focused aimlessness. Their state of being is in a constant flux between a “falling without ever hitting the ground” and “perceived weightlessness”. They seem to exist in a continuous now. We suspect that they are masters of forgetfulness. Their subconscious is presumably less overburdened than that of the Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
Specifics of hearing
With a sustained breath, their hearing is amplified. Perhaps this is similar to our hearing under water. They can hear earth tremors and are susceptible to the most delicate sound shifts that may imply changes in their environment. We assume that they use a form of echolocation.
It is perhaps conceivable that Homo Sapiens Medusa have a completely different sense of space than we do. Seeing by means of hearing, recognizing and knowing by means of acoustic landscapes.
Sociality as a consequence of biological evolutionary traits
Homo Sapiens Medusa float with other members of their kind in loose swarms. In these temporary gatherings, their breathing patterns build variously layered structures, which they themselves perceive as acoustic images.[1] Every one of these individuals gives off impulses, and takes in impulses from others. This is how movement directions, tensions and constellations in such groups change.[2] It is possible that the Homo Sapiens Medusa are practising gentle forms of intuitive decision making in this way. Their story lines overlap and intertwine like the tentacle threads of the Medusa jellyfish. They seem to dream collectively, or at least to synchronize while dreaming.[3]
Probably the best free divers among Homo Sapiens Sapiens are the ones who can most closely understand what kind of people the Homo Sapiens Medusa are.
Cultural Studies of "Homo Medusa" - State of research
Research on Homo Sapiens Medusa is extremely patchy. Questions that continue to occupy us:
How do Homo Sapiens Medusa experience time?
Is there recognition in these "layered acoustic structures"? Do they remember them as specific patterns of "disturbance" or "harmony"? Or do they always experience everything "anew"? [4]
How does experience arise in these "masters of forgetting"? What are their sleep cycles like?
How does cohesion develop among them? Is there individuality (a concept of Homo Sapiens Sapiens), or is this also always fluid?
References
- ↑
Wolfgang Welsch, „Blickwechsel. Neue Wege der Ästhetik“ (Change of perspective. New ways of aesthetics), Reclams Universal Bibliothek, 2012; pp. 311-312: Our sense of beauty (...) is basically a detector of self-organization. In this respect, it has a strong cognitive component. (...) To what extent could it have been useful for our ancestors to intuitively recognize self-organization? (...) It seems that the basic logic of the physical world is available to us here - in the form of an aesthetic sense.
- ↑ Israel Rosenfield, „The Strange, Familiar and Forgotten. An Anatomy of Consciousness“, New York, Alfred a. Knopf, 1992, pp. 98 (in the German edition): Neuronal groups, which brain researchers refer to as maps, are arranged in the layers of the brain. (...) The different maps are connected by a network of nerves, and when a certain stimulus is present, the reactions of the individual maps are coordinated by reciprocal signal exchange..
- ↑ Ibid. pp. 100: Recognition and understanding are dynamic, they emerge from a continuous flow of images based on dynamic relationships. (...).
- ↑ Ibid. pp. 96-97: Memory is rooted in our sense of time and this in turn is a system of relationships (...). Memory and time are inextricably linked, and both are constantly being created anew (...).
For 2 and 3 see also:
Wolf Singer, Matthieu Ricard, „Hirnforschung und Meditation. Ein Dialog.“ (Brain Research and Meditation. A Dialogue), Frankfurt a. M., Suhrkamp Verlag, 2008; pp. 91-92:
The storage of content in neural networks is based on associative principles, (...). The equivalent of a particular engram is a specific dynamic state of the network, a state defined by the specific spatiotemporal distribution of active and inactive neurons of the network.
Ibid. pp. 102: In the language of neurons, solutions (or recognition, editor's note) are nothing other than special spatiotemporal activation patterns.
Ibid. pp. 104: Perhaps coherence is the signature of a solution, perhaps solutions are states of high synchronicity, moments in which widely distributed ensembles of neurons settle into well-synchronized oscillatory states.
All german quotes translated by the editor.
External Links
Anatomorphosen, Processes of Becoming Other, DOCK 11 Eden*****, Berlin, 2024
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