Evolution of science I: Evolution of Mind

TL;DR

This paper explores the evolutionary development of the human brain's capabilities, emphasizing its increasing power in comprehension, visualization, and formal thought, especially in relation to understanding space and time.

Contribution

It provides a historical perspective on how the human brain evolved to develop advanced cognitive faculties, linking biological evolution with technological and scientific progress.

Findings

Human brain evolved to control life cycle and later gained advanced comprehension abilities.

Development of formal thought and visualization enabled understanding of space and time.

Evolution of technology, especially astronomy, influenced the growth of human cognitive faculties.

Abstract

The central nervous system and particularly the brain was designed to control the life cycle of a living being. With increasing size and sophistication, in mammals, the brain became capable of exercising significant control over life. In Homo Sapiens the brain became significantly powerful and capable of comprehension beyond survival needs with visualisation, formal thought and long term memory. Here we trace the rise of the powers of the brains of the Homo Sapiens and its capability of three comprehending the three spatial dimensions as well as time. By tracing the evolution of technology over the last millennium and particularly the late arrival of astronomy to discuss the evolution of the formal thinking process in humans. In a follow up paper we will trace the extensive use of this new faculty by humans to comprehend the working of the universe.