Recording

Over thousands of years humans have come up with two solutions to growing a Mind: ancient indigenous peoples across the world naturalized memory, investing their cultural inheritance of sex and survival in memory niches in the external environment of animals, stars, and environment; while those others (philosophers, scientists, etc.) began to cut their memories out of natural things and invest them in abstract spaces of clay, papyrus, paper, silicon, quantum bits, etc.
The indigenous path to use two examples of memory and mind growing 
can be taken from the ancient Druids and the aborigines of Australia. 
The Druids as keepers of the tribal inheritance of the ancient Celts – a
 people who invaded Old Europe out of the Steppes beginning in about 
4500BCE developed various natural techniques of memory using a Tree 
alphabet, along with rote learning of thousands of meters of poetry. The
 poets of this Celtic world went through a series of progressions from 
bard to Ollave depending on how many of these songs and cultural memory 
they could master and recite verbatim. All that died for the most part 
when Julius Caesar destroyed the Druids learning centers, the great 
groves where the people’s memory was passed on to new generations. Only 
fragmentary knowledge of this past remained in scattered seeds of 
traveling singers, but most of that past was lost forever.
The same process took place with the aboriginal peoples of Australia 
who developed songlines, which became externalized memory in the natural
 landscapes that wove the dreamtime (cultural memories and unconscious) 
of the tribe and melded it to migration and seasonal vectors in the 
environment. Watching recent National Geographic specials on this one 
realizes that much of this ancient culture (one that began some say 
60,000 years ago!) has been lost due to cultural displacement of the 
aborigine over the past two hundred years or so from their ancient 
songlines.
Modern man on the other hand has taken an alternative path to 
abstraction: one in which the externalization of memory was divorced 
from the natural environment for a more compact physical manifestation: 
pictograms, icons, symbols, language – inscribed on various physical 
devices other than the brain itself (i.e., clay tablets, papyrus, paper,
 silicon, quantum bits….). This slow process of inversion in which 
modern humans divorced from the old environmental and tribal memory 
systems which internalized / externalized memory in brain/environment 
unto the modern abstract processes of reliance not on brain or 
environment, but rather on the brain/environment as externalized in 
computational devices external to the species has led to a strange 
dilemma in which humans have lost their minds as well as their 
connections to the cultural memory stored in environmental relations.