A radically new view of humanity - The core element is the neurosystemically based autonomy of the human being in his thinking and acting

According to palaeogenetic analyses, the earliest Homo sapiens groups began to separate from one another in Africa around 150,000 years ago, and did so for decades. Due to a lack of selection, none of their brains have changed structural-ly in the same way since then. From this we can deduce something monstrous: The subsequent breathtaking development of culture and civilization of man-kind, its incessant higher development of cognitive levels, indeed its constant acceleration, was accomplished by means of a cerebrum that has always re-mained the same; phenotypes of individually high aptitude do not change this. In addition, paradoxically: The human brain does not differ substantially from the chimpanzee brain in terms of architectonics and neurophysiology; only the proportion of the non-specific association cortex has increased in humans by up to an immense 80%. This is an absolute novelty in the biological evolution of higher mammals: without any further organ and brain adaptation through muta-tions, only Homo sapiens is able to develop cognition continuously in creative stages. The analysis of its intracortical processes of cognitive optimization sug-gests the following hypothesis: Primarily the complex process of an exponential-ly increasing number of neuronal patterns - not a specially interconnected net-work - must generate a leap in quality, namely from the order states of procedur-al self-regulation to a contrary system of neuronal autonomy. It is only through this additional neural system - experienced as the control dominance of 'being conscious' - that the thinking potential for unlimited creative development is opened up. - A leap in autonomy compared to the animal consequently consti-tutes the hitherto misunderstood nature of the human being.