Prespeech
mind lacks reflective awareness (or what is known as
consciousness). With speech there came a dark side, an Achilles' heel
if you will: while the positive side of acquiring speech was the
ability to get hold of, remember and use experience, the negative
side was the anxiety and limbic overinvolvement in acquiring the
concepts like death, danger, threat, pain, fear, hunger loss and etc.
Since
it was anxiety overload that had to be compensated for, it is easy to
identify two distinctly mind-created and mind enhanced danger
schemata:
- Invisible forces or gods, that is, agencies that lend causal coherence to incomprehensible phenomena.
- Humans, or more precisely alien groups of humans, with their imagined group of intentions as constituting the source of danger.
Simply
put: the down side of being equipped with language was an anxiety
resulted from the negative emergent concepts that the pre-speech
species didn't experience. Gods or concepts as such were created in
order to explain the inconsistencies in the scenarios that found meaning through language.
With
some adaptations, from The Crucible of Consciousness