On the other hand, some important cultural zones are speeding up their advance based on symbolic models. They gain more and more power due to this.
This is the overall situation now.
Abstract: the evolution of the brain means the increased power of the symbolic models. The main steps are:
1. Spoken language (about 140 thousands of years ago) 2. Phonetic writing (3700 to 2900 years ago) 3. Euclid's Geometry (2300 years ago) 4. Newton Mechanics (340 years ago) 5. Quantum Mechanics (100 years ago) 6. Some cultural zone speed up their evolution based on symbolic models, but in other zones there is a tendency to turn back to image models (fundamentalist tendency). Some fundamentalist tendencies occur in symbolic countries too.
ETA 18: The organization of the human society
Faced with external reality, any individual builds and operates some models to predict the evolution of the external reality. The majority of the population is based on image models. One of the organization principles of the human society is:
The majority is seldom right.
This principle is a direct consequence of reflecting the external reality based on image models.
The evolution of society means that there is a dynamic (a continuous change in time). But, as we already know, it is very hard to change a structure of models.
A second principle states that: