Prometheus Rising (36 page)

and their natural selections...

— James Joyce,
Finnegans
Wake

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The neurogenetic script, upward-spiraling aspect:

1. Primitive organisms; recapitulated in infancy.

2. Vertebrate struggle, recapitulated in childhood.

3. Semantic-technological learning, recapitulated in school.

4. Socio-sexual domesticity.

5. Neurosomatic rapture, pre-capitulating zero-gravity and Space

Migration.

6. Neurogenetic vision, pre-capitulating Longevity-Immortality.

7. Meta-programming skill, pre-capitulating Intelligence

Intensification.

8. Meta-physiological cosmic vision, pre-capitulating... WHAT?