Chapter Three From the Hoots of Apes to the Prose of Hamlet Page 37 Page 37 sciousness.
Core consciousness is imaged based while extended consciousness is linguistically based.
Nonlinguistic narratives are mimetically told and imagined in the form of ritual. If the teleonomic function of the structure of animal signaling is to induce an emotional response, it is likely that mimetic symbolic representation evolved for the same reason, but in some context it was more effective than the instinctual mechanism. In the animal signaling process one animal who initiates the signal effects the emotional state of another or others to induce the required reaction. In this sense there is the doer of the affecting deed and the recipient who is modified by it. This structure would carry over into mimetic ritual.