Reprinted from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, September 1994

Structural and Temporal Castes in the Human Being
by Edward Wilson

During the Neurogenetic Renaissance (1976-1986) Human Ethology replaced religion, philosophy, sociology, psychology, personology, astrology, psychiatry and every other primitive system of behavioral theory and practice.

Concepts such as temporal and structural caste in social animals, the key role of migration, population-swarming, hive-limited culture, the emergence of new post-human species, and human-robotry relegated to antiquity every previous theory of human behavior.

The parents of this first scientific philosophy were the Wilson Brothers, Edward and Robert -- who performed for psychology what Einstein did for physics.  Edward's book, Sociobiology, is generally considered the first conscious text on human behavior ever published.

Intelligence Agents have worked for centuries to decipher the DNA code -- to unravel the secrets, techniques and tactics used by the Life-Intelligence to improve species.  Recently this ancient and honorable philosophic specialty has acquired a new professional title:  Ethology.  Ethology studies the survival behavior of living organisms, species and gene-pools in their natural environment.

Migration and metamorphosis are obviously effective techniques for improving intelligence (I2).  Migration provides varied territorial options and leads to the growth of musculature and neuro-technology that makes accelerated, accurate locomotion possible.  Also, migration selects for the nobility-mobility and thus creates new, more mobile cultures.  The young nervous systems of every frontier caste are imprinted with the independent-individuality of migrant Out-Castes.

A third tool used by DNA to increase intelligence is:  socialization, i.e., harmonious, collaborative behavior.  A characteristic of advanced socialization is Caste Division - a most effective survival device.

A species which has developed caste differentiation and enculturation based on multi-stage imprinting divides into survival specialties -- thus complexifying and expanding performance.  Obvious examples of caste specialization are the two most successful life-forms on this planet:  social insects and humans.

There are two forms of caste differentiation described by ethologists:  structural caste and temporal caste.  Structural caste defines Alpha Reality -- genetic wiring.  Temporal caste defines Beta Reality -- developmental staging of the wiring.  The most successful-intelligent species manifest both structural and temporal castes.  Until Human Species understood how these two caste systems work they were unable to understand human psychology and thus manage their own, evolving destiny.

Structural Caste
(Alpha Reality)

Structural Caste involves the familiar genetic division into specialized functions (worker-humant, warrior-humant, drone-humant, builder-humant) that characterize hive organisms like social insects and civilized hum-ants.  Structural caste in insects is easily identified by visible morphological (anatomical) differences.  In humans neurological differences are more important in determining the behavior of each caste.*  Structural caste is genetic-anatomical templating which produces involuntary-robot behaviors.  A drone bee looks different from a worker bee or a queen bee.

Structural Caste differences also characterize homo sapiens.  Male and female -- is one structural caste difference.  Big, muscled, hyperadrenalized aggressives are a separate caste -- the warriors, the Amazons.  Dainty, fragile, nurturant minister-types are a caste.  Bobby Fishers, J. Edgar Hoovers, Bella Abzugs and Marily Monroes are caste-exemplars.  The caste distinctions are blatantly visible, but discussion of genetic types is taboo among modern humans -- although these differences were taken for granted by earlier societies.

Socialist countries forbid talk about genetic caste-differences because Marxism holds that society determines behavior.  Caste theories, to a socialist, reek of capitalistic-class-elitist racism.  In western democracies, the Intellectual-Scientist-Caste denies caste differences because of the hive commitment to equality.  The revulsion against Nazi, Arab and Zionist genetic fanaticism also makes caste discussions verboten among liberals -- and most scientists are liberals.

It is interesting that uneducated, lower-class people readily accept the reality of racial and caste-differences.  Country bumpkins and illiterate farmers are aware of the effects of breeding and are, thus, far more ethologically sophisticated than liberal Cambridge Nobel Prize laureates.

Common-Sense suggests that there are a limited number of basic genetic castes that characterize the human species, and that new caste differences will emerge as homo sapiens continues its accelerated differentiated evolution.

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*  It is obvious that highly complex neurological differences also characterize each insect hive.  It is possible that individual insects have more illusions of individuality than we now credit them.  The nervous system of each juvenile worker-ant is imprinted with specific culture cues.  Each corridor of each ant hill has its highly characteristic odors, textures and humidities which identify the inhabitants.  It is reflex-chauvinism to deny naively that ant hill cultures -- 100 million years a-building -- offer their caste members any less sense of individual and hive uniqueness than is offered the average hum-ant.

Temporal Caste
(Beta Reality)

The most impressive and successful technique used by DNA to increase the intelligence of social species is Temporal Caste.  Temporal Caste refers to the process of maturation in which an individual metamorphosizes from one form to another within hir own life span.  Passing through developmental stages -- performing different survival functions at each life passage.

Temporal casting in an ant-hill assigns the young tasks of infant care.  Slightly older ants are assigned house-keeping and hive-repair functions metamorphizing into more external functions of exploration, food-gathering and warrior activity.

Reflect on the wondrous neurological advantage of Temporal Caste.  The mature ant knows how to perform several caste functions.  This means that SHe has several gears or circuits in hir nervous system.  An organism which has passed through temporal metamorphic sequences is imply more intelligent.  Temporal caste means polyphase brain and thus multiple Beta Realities.  Caterpillar caste to butterfly caste; pollywog to frog; pre-teenager to adolescent.

Now reflect on the super-wondrous glory of the human brain.  The terrestrial human life cycle spins the developing individual through 12 stages.  The suckling infant is certainly a very different caste from the serious ten year old school-child.  The rock 'n' roll teenager is certainly a different caste than the tottering post-menopausal.

Until recently our philosophers (sic) have been unable to understand temporal casting in humans.  For very good genetic reasons.  The human being is a robot, blindly operating within the reality bubble of structural caste and current temporal caste imprint.  At each developmental stage the individual must imprint the current hive reality for that developmental stage.  The infant cannot be concerned with teenage sperm-egg fantasies.  SHe must suck, suck, suck at the cultural cues that SHe has imprinted -- the touch, smell, taste, sound of the mother.

The 11th stage new-parent suddenly, miraculously forgets the barbarian teenage reality in which SHE lived just a few months previous.  Each human accepts the reality of the current temporal stage hive-imprint, and almost totally represses the memory of previous stages.  The 24 circuit equipment is there, however, available for activation.  It is the aim of this article to turn you on to its glory.

The most loveable aspect of human temporal casting is this:  each stage plays a part in the overall 24 element human molecule.  Think of the human gene-pool as a complex molecule which builds on new elements as it evolves.  Temporal casting allows for temporal flexibility.  Each generation is a wave moving through the gene-pool -- contributing to the locomotion of the gene-pool through time.

Let us examine the Temporal Caste situation.  Does the Stage 1 suckling, floating infant play a role in the human ant-hill?  Oh my yes!  You better believe that the suckling infant is the glue which holds the enormous technological civilization together.  The task of the infant is to trigger domestic responses in adults.  The baby's task is to suck tits, emit anguished-demanding yowls, dirty diapers, gurgle winningly.  The neonate performing its repertoire of activities is working just as hard as the auto worker or the dutiful parent.  Sucking mother's breasts turns on hormones that keep Mom home.

If Mom's 11th brain is not fed by gurgle cues and cries, young Mother will be down at the dance hall swinging her hips or, horrors, competing with men.  (Thus the enormous neuro-genetic significance of the Pill.  It is no accident that an irresistible Women's Liberation Movement occurs one generation after voluntary birth-control appears.  Birth control is self-directed management of temporal caste sequence.  Women can postpone Stage 11 maternal-matron-morality.  The "youth-cult" which has produced middle-aged women teeny boppers and married Teamsters wearing Joe Namath satin shirts with Fonz hair styles is another by-product of the newly won control of our neurogenetic brain sequences.)

The school child (ages 5-11) also plays a crucial role in the human hive.  Young students keep the enormous educational industry going.  Schools become bureaucratic paper-factories keeping teachers busy, school administrators occupied, counselors engaged.  The whole insectoid apparatus is designed, of course, to imprint the young robots with role-models, making them ready to take their places in a bureaucratic-socialist centralized hive civilization where everyone is trained to play a role.

The Teenager Caste similarly plays a vital role in the human ant-hill by providing warriors in times of war.  Indeed, teenagers encourage war.  Before 1960 every dictator knew that the way to keep the restless students from rioting in the university was to get them fighting on the border.  In times of peace the crime rate rises.  In times of peace the task of teenagers is to keep the police establishment and the judiciary going.  More than half of all reported crimes are committed by barbarian teenagers or unmarried, pre-domestic males.  If Stage 10 adolescence were eliminated from the human cycle, there would be no Red Brigades, no rock-concert riots -- the monolithic police bureaucracy would immediately crumble and in its anguished collapse take the entire society down with it.  Every caste has to be kept occupied.

As usual, it is more comfortable for us to understand human robot-hood by looking at others.  Thus we notice that in "primitive" tribes young children perform baby-care.  Older girls help with agriculture.  Older boys guard the flocks.  After puberty temporal caste assignments change dramatically.  In all societies adolescent males pass through a warrior stage.

Today in civilized societies technology and complex labor divisions have diminished the survival value of child-castes.  Thus the elaborate culture of organized play and extended education to prepare youngsters for warrior and post-warrior status.

The Coordination of Structural and Temporal Castes

It must be stressed that current knowledge of human neuro-genetics is so primitive that we have just now realized that structural and temporal castes exist.*  This insight is obviously changing, totally, our conceptions of human nature and society.  It is probable that we are neuro-logically programmed so that understanding of castes cannot become part of species contelligence until the time for Space Migration occurs.  Plan-It Colonies in High Orbit provide the new ecological vacuum which will allow human caste differences to blossom without the friction and crowded competition which now colors racial-class-sexual-caste differences.

To understand your own personal development you must remember that you are a genetic-caste-robot.  You are templated by DNA to play a certain role and outfitted with a 24-gear brain that is very different from 92% of other human brains.

We now use the venerable language of Zodiac types to start a dialogue about casting.  Why do we borrow the 12 signs of the Zodiac as labels for basic structural human castes?  This is a conservative bow to tradition.  Philosophers, good ones, are human ethologists.  For five thousand years the most shrewd human ethologists have worked on this twelve-fold type-casting -- based, we must assume, on extensive and empirical observation.  If we ignore the "astro" part we are still left with the "logic" of 12 survival tactics -- Pisces, Aries, etc.  In the future more sophisticated classifications of human types based on neuro-logical differences will replace the crude zodiac classification used in this book.

For now let us assume that your genetic template determines your structural caste which, in turn, determines your life-long reality attitude.**  We shall call your structural caste your ALPHA REALITY.

Now there will be some among you, of scientific and intellectual bent, who will be offended by this use of "sloppy occult astrological/superstitious" technology.  But before you fuse out, please re-read this crude, generalized lsit of 12 personality types.  Realize that this is an admittedly primitive attempt at introducing the notion of temporal caste, seriality and developmental order.  Note that the survival characteristic assigned to teach type describes an evolutionary technology and a developmental stage.  Pisces is baby and amoeboid.  Aquarius is the most elderly, orderly, mature.  Sense how this list tries to recapitulate the evolution of the 12 basic neuro-technological functions -- both in the species and individuals.  May I suggest that you not reject this list unless you can replace it by a better personality typology based on the sequential evolution of intelligence, in species and in individuals.

Intellectuals, scholars, academics, salaried scientists and all other categories of verbal bureaucrats unanimously denounce astrology.  This immediately alerts the Intelligence Agent that some important genetic nerve is being touched.  One hears these paper-pedants (and their civil-service followers) making such solemn, judicial pronouncements as:  "I don't believe in astrology."  This statement means:  "I don't understand seasonal ethology and I automatically reject everything my brain is not wired to receive."

We look, therefore, for the valid reasons why hive philosophers fear astrology.  And we find, hidden in the tangle of zodiac ravings, three important items of neuro-genetic wisdom:

1. Regular cycles influence neural development,

2. Each of us is born a robot, templated and controlled by rhythms that we can decipher and harmonize with,

3. Each of us is born into a caste, or into a complex of castes.

Let us suspend belief and assume, for the moment, that Zodiac types define structural castes.  Each of the 12 terrestrial intelligence-functions plays an important role in the human social molecule.  No human gene-pool can exist unless it has people and institutions play out these 12 neuro-technological parts.

Now let us consider temporal caste.  It is the genius (genetic-volatility) of humanity that, although each of us is a genetic-robot, we pass through the 12 stages as we mature.  What a wondrous package, indeed is WoMan!  Each of us represents one of the twelve intelligence-survival-solutions and each of us, in maturing, passes through and relives all twelve solutions.

Genetic Consciousness allows us to discard old outmoded hive-reality maps, to file away, retire, every previous theological and philosophic blueprint -- except those which are based on continual evolution.  This does not mean reject empirical data or close-off information or ignore opinions.  Note everything that the primitives say.  Be open to every stupidity, savagery, rigidity of the Newtonian natives.  Listen to the Christian Fundamentalists when they shout that the Bible is a Word-for-Word revelation and you will get a shocking insight into the parroting, paleolithic, humanoid brain.  And then check your own behavior for 7th Brain repetition.

Study and then file-away orthodox Darwinian blind-selection theories -- while respecting the field reports of evolutionists and ethologists.  Then play with the notions of Structural and Temporal Caste as they affect you.  How can we fail to admire this clever I2 tactic which allows each of us to recapitulate evolution and to move ahead to create the future?

Find your Robot-Structural-Case (DNA Alpha Reality) in the left column of Table II and then slide along the 12 developmental stages (CNS Beta Realities) through which you have passed.  How can we fail to exult in this blueprint which allows us to experience -- and retrieve from genetic memory -- every reality which our evolutionary forebearers have offered us?

The aim of DNA is to Increase Intelligence, I2.  Individual human beings evolve, stage by stage, as higher circuits of the CNS are activated.  Post-hive consciousness allows humans to grasp the aesthetics of the DNA blueprints.

The gift of DNA is this:  although we are templated as genetic-robots (structural caste) we are equipped with a 24 calibre brain which allows us to imprint (fabricate) every Alpha Reality available to very major life-form which has preceded us on the scene.  And to imprint every major life-form to come.

DNA has given us the equipment to recapitulate-pre-capitulate the major DNA solutions -- past and future.  But more than that, DNA has given us access to both CNS and RNA equipment so that we can creatively re-imprint each of the 24 CNS (Beta) realities and then re-structure our Structural Caste.

The extraordinary success of humanity is due to the combinatorial complexity of structural and temporal castes in this species.

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* Sociobiologists and ethologists define their professions as the study of Behavioral Genetics.  This term is not adequate.  Neuro-genetics is a more accurate word -- what is inherited is not behavior but neural templates which determine the use of the anatomical-technology.  Local hive behavior cues -- language, customs, artifacts, and the like are not genetically inherited; they are cultural imprints.  Only the caste-circuits are inherited.  Until Ethologists understand the difference between neuro-genetic caste and local-social-imprint, their brilliant observations cannot be mapped.

**  Attitude is used in the high-altitude, high velocity aeronautical context -- angle of approach.

CROSS COLUMN:  BETA REALITY -- TEMPORAL CASTE:  CNS

DOWN COLUMN:  ALPHA REALITY -- STRUCTURAL CASTE:  DNA

INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM IS THE KEY TO EVOLUTION

History, indeed, evolution itself, can be charted in terms of the growth of Freedom-of-the-Individual.

Freedom is defined as:

1. Amount of mobility (velocity-attitude), and communication-scope attained by the individual

2. Amount of direction-control of transportation-communication attained by the individual.

3. The opportunity of free-responsible individuals to signal each other and link-up in more complex networks ... inevitably leading to ... Migration.

WINTER 1977
TUCSON LECTURE
THE DARK AGES: COCOON PREPARATION FOR MIGRATION

An interesting thing happened when the caravans of futique gene-pools fleeing West hit the beaches of the North Atlantic.  No place to go.  The Dark Ages (sic) occurred when this Westward wave of intelligent gene-pools crashed against the North Atlantic wall.  Thousands of restless gene-pools had to wait in Western Europe until they got smart enough, technologically skillful enough, to move sperm-egg flotilla up the North Atlantic.  The vanguard elite clustered in Ireland -- as far West as possible.

Darwinians didn't understand.  It's not survival of the fittest; it's the evolution of the fastest in the Human Race.

Here was the familiar test of nerve and intelligence.  During the Dark Ages the hive Fear Merchants said, "Stay put.  The world is flat.  If you sail across the North Atlantic you'll fall off the edge.  You'll be eaten by dragons, or busted by narcotic agents."  Or whatever they spooked people with back then.*

But the explosion did take place.  The world is not flat, it's a spinning sphere.  Eventually the DNA code reacting to the stimuli of pollution and over-population activated the mobility-agents.  Celtic Rangers were the first to climb the Atlantic.  Prince Henry, the Navigator, sent Vasco de Gama around the Horn; Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to fund the N.A.S.A. explorations of Christopher Columbus.  Queen Elizabeth got an appropriation from Parliament to fund the astronaut voyages of Sir Francis Drake.  At this swarming moment of expansion and exploration, the great European powers reached the high points of their culture, drama, poetry, art, science and philosophy.

That Dark Age was a pre-mutation period of growth-limitation, fear, bureaucratic hive-restriction, proto-Naderism which said:  "Movement is unsafe at any speed."

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* We recall here the etymology of the world LOCO-MOTOR.  Fast movers throughout the history of evolution have always been considered "loco" or "crazy" by static hive-establishments.  The paleolithic conservatives warned restless marine creatures away from the shore-line.  Uni-cellular bureaucrats warned protozoic out-castes about hooking up in multi-cellular linkages.