The document discusses the evolution of life on Earth and consciousness over time. It outlines the hierarchy of biological systems from the biosphere down to atoms. It also describes the evolution of consciousness from mineral to universal intuitive levels and compares the two hemispheres of the brain.
5. H IERARCHY OF B IOLOGICAL L EVELS BIOSPHERE COMMUNITIES POPULATIONS ORGANISMS ORGAN SYSTEMS ORGANS TISSUES CELLS ORGANELLES COMPOUNDS ATOMS SUB-ATOMS STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY
6. ‘ EVOLUTION’ of CONSCIOUSNESS UNIVERSAL INTUITIONAL MENTAL MINERAL PLANT HUMAN ANIMAL SPIRITUAL PHYSICAL EMOTIONAL
7. E COLOGICAL F OOTPRINT Marginally Interacting Globally Interacting Non-Interacting
8. T HE T WO H EMISPHERES SPEECH, VERBAL SPATIAL, MUSICAL LINEAR HOLISTIC LOGICAL, MATHEMATICAL ARTISTIC, SYMBOLIC SEQUENTIAL SIMULTANEOUS INTELLECTUAL EMOTIONAL DETAILED INTUITIVE, CREATIVE WORLDLY SPIRITUAL ANALYTIC SYNTHETIC PERCEPTION OF SIGNIFICANT ORDER PERCEPTION OF ABSTRACT PATTERNS RECOGNITION OF COMPLEX FIGURES
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