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 O Nobilissima Viriditas... “O most noble greenness, you whose roots are in the sun and who shine in bright serenity in a wheel that no earthly eminence can comprehend.” - Hildegard von Bingen O Nobilissima Viriditas... “O most noble greenness, you whose roots are in the sun and who shine in bright serenity in a wheel that no earthly eminence can comprehend.” - Hildegard von Bingen
  
-Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen. -[[Terence McKenna]]+"Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary [[Hildegard Von Bingen]]." --[[Terence McKenna]]
  
 "Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself.There's a constant pressure, pushing toward pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call viriditas, and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see..." -Kim Robinson  "Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself.There's a constant pressure, pushing toward pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call viriditas, and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see..." -Kim Robinson 
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 Viriditas, a word coined by Hildegard von Bingen and more recently used by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, describes the green force of life, expanding into the Universe. The final movement of Shattering Suns is a dance of life: a rhythmic outburst acting as a pendant to the opening, chaotic explosion of a dying star in the first movement. Mixed meters and fast, ascending scales combine to produce a feeling of rushing forward, joyfully, to greet the unknown. Viriditas, a word coined by Hildegard von Bingen and more recently used by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, describes the green force of life, expanding into the Universe. The final movement of Shattering Suns is a dance of life: a rhythmic outburst acting as a pendant to the opening, chaotic explosion of a dying star in the first movement. Mixed meters and fast, ascending scales combine to produce a feeling of rushing forward, joyfully, to greet the unknown.
-http://www-camil.music.uiuc.edu/faculty/taylor/suns/viriditas.html+http://www.stephenandrewtaylor.net/suns/viriditas.html
  
 Stevie Wishart Stevie Wishart
-http://www.loganartsmanagement.com/artists/stevie-wishart/discography/stevie-wishart-sinfonye-hildegard-vol-3+http://www.loganartsmanagement.com/artists/stevie-wishart/discography/the-complete-hildegard-von-bingen-volume-3
  
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 Instead he proposes: Instead he proposes:
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-In place of a single general-purpose intelligence, I have proposed elsewhere (Mithen 1996) that there were three isolated cognitive domains in the minds of large brain hominins (i.e. post-Homo habilis) that I described as social,technical,and natural history intelligences,with each being constituted by a bundle of interacting mental modules. Our interest here is with natural history intelligence, which might also be characterized as ‘intuitive biology’. By this I mean stores of information about the natural world, methods of acquiring further information, and methods of processing information that had become embedded within the hominin genome and did not require learning and/or cultural transmission to acquire. Moreover, these were dedicated to the natural world and quite different to the stores of information and processing methods that were dedicated to interacting with other individuals or manufactur- +In place of a single general-purpose intelligence, I have proposed elsewhere (Mithen 1996) that there were three isolated cognitive domains in the minds of large brain hominins (i.e. post-Homo habilis) that I described as social, technical, and natural history intelligences, with each being constituted by a bundle of interacting mental modules. Our interest here is with natural history intelligence, which might also be characterized as ‘intuitive biology’. By this I mean stores of information about the natural world, methods of acquiring further information, and methods of processing information that had become embedded within the hominin genome and did not require learning and/or cultural transmission to acquire. Moreover, these were dedicated to the natural world and quite different to the stores of information and processing methods that were dedicated to interacting with other individuals or manufactur- 
 ing artefacts. Such intuitive biology would have provided hominins with the type of expert folk-botanical and folk-zoological knowledge that is characteristic of recent hunter-gatherers. ing artefacts. Such intuitive biology would have provided hominins with the type of expert folk-botanical and folk-zoological knowledge that is characteristic of recent hunter-gatherers.
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-We must, however, make a distinction here between this type of ecological knowledge and the use of anthropomorphism..... Indeed,Kennedy (1992) argues that human beings in general are prone to a compulsive anthropomorphizing, and with modern hunter-gatherers the social and natural worlds appear to have no boundaries. I have argued that this ‘cognitive fluidity’ has arisen in relatively recent times and is a consequence of the evolution of compositional language (Mithen 1996:2005).Consequently for pre-modern hominins I would expect a natural history and a social intelligence that are effectively isolated from each other: the natural and social worlds were two distinct entities.....The key archaeological evidence to support the proposition ofa discrete natural history intelligence (or intuitive biology) evolving relatively early in human evolution is the extraordinary diversity of environments and hence foraging strategies that were adopted by hominins.......But what is even more striking is the ease with which this knowledge is +We must, however, make a distinction here between this type of ecological knowledge and the use of anthropomorphism..... Indeed, Kennedy (1992) argues that human beings in general are prone to a compulsive anthropomorphizing, and with modern hunter-gatherers the social and natural worlds appear to have no boundaries. I have argued that this ‘cognitive fluidity’ has arisen in relatively recent times and is a consequence of the evolution of compositional language (Mithen 1996:2005). Consequently for pre-modern hominins I would expect a natural history and a social intelligence that are effectively isolated from each other: the natural and social worlds were two distinct entities.....The key archaeological evidence to support the proposition of a discrete natural history intelligence (or intuitive biology) evolving relatively early in human evolution is the extraordinary diversity of environments and hence foraging strategies that were adopted by hominins.......But what is even more striking is the ease with which this knowledge is 
 acquired and culturally transmitted – human minds appear to be pre-tuned for acquiring and processing information about animals and plants such that virtually no active teaching is required (Atran 1990:1994). Formal training appears to be generally rare among hunter-gatherer societies. acquired and culturally transmitted – human minds appear to be pre-tuned for acquiring and processing information about animals and plants such that virtually no active teaching is required (Atran 1990:1994). Formal training appears to be generally rare among hunter-gatherer societies.
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-For almost the whole of the six million years of human evolution since the common ancestor, hominins have perceived,classified,interpreted,and made decisions about the natural world in a pre-linguistic mode.Some of those hominins may have had sophisticated communications system of the type I have characterized as Hmmmmm, which made extensive use of onomatopoeia, mimicry, and sound synaesthesia.+For almost the whole of the six million years of human evolution since the common ancestor, hominins have perceived, classified, interpreted, and made decisions about the natural world in a pre-linguistic mode. Some of those hominins may have had sophisticated communications system of the type I have characterized as Hmmmmm, which made extensive use of onomatopoeia, mimicry, and sound synaesthesia.
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