Who was the First Man? Homo Sapiens, Homo religiosus, Homo culturalis, Homo Ludens & Homo Liber Perquisitor

 Who was the First Man?

Homo Sapiens, Homo religiosus, Homo culturalis, Homo Ludens & Homo Liber Perquisitor

What was the gender of the first human being? What was the color of the first human? Where did it live? What was its name?

 

To define, is to limit. But in this case, to define is to catch an essence. 

The first concept we will understand is the Homo. What is it to be Homo? In simple words, Homo is a complex animal. An animal that presents complex, analytical thinking and use of tools. 

This is important because the main contemporary view of man is derived from the first term. Being Homo the animal that thinks, analyzes and uses tools, it is necessary to explain why we evolved such important behavior. 

HOMO Erectus 

When in an environment favorable to walk standing, in terms, a place where the higher is your vision the farther you see, where the sun burns like a desert (standing results in less body parts in sun exposure), the individuals that could walk standing would better adapt to the environment, having those more partners and leading its genes. This could explain the origin of homo erectus.

HOMO Faber 

Walk standing, those earlier humans got their hands free to move, grab and throw rocks, sticks or whatever material. With time and a more adaptive hand and finger, it became possible to craft things. 

After something starts to burn for natural reasons (such as thunder, rays or sunlight) those humans could use its free hands to grab a stick in flames (for example) and use it to burn meat. Exciting its particles and liberating more energy and nutrients. Or getting cold in a dark and freezing night. 

With more access to nutrients and a life with less risk, maybe the brain could drop some ideias, for example, flintknapping. And after, use it as a knife or, in some extreme case, to create fire from rocks and sticks. 

Work in order to live is not exclusive to humans. But to all beings. To be a living being on earth with finite resources demands work in order to maintain energy. A human must work to live but it's no different from an ant, for example. No man is defined by work but all living beings. The difference is that men work smart. The difference is not in working but in smartness.

HOMO Sapiens

With all those handcrafted instruments and having more access to nutrients those earlier humans now could finally be called sapiens. Smart and intelligent. 

HOMO culturalis

They passed their information generation to generation creating an oral culture. 

HOMO Ludens 

Lastly represented by terms well known academically, finally those earlier humans noticed their bodys as tools that create tools in order to operate in reality. They now turn to operate with tools not only in reality but outside it. They perceived reality and created an alternative to it. Player or Gamer is the adjective now, as Ludens (ludic). This has, on a certain level, a reference to party, in such a way that to play is to escape from reality, same goes to party as a way of escaping reality for a certain moment. 

Man now recognizes reality and even creates an alternative reality. 

HOMO Religiosus

Perceiving reality and gessings the existence of an alternative reality. Also limiting it in a game or play, they now imply that our reality could have or not have a limit, coming with the concept of a meta reality. Now creating religions, which is in essence the extent of reality. Even the concept of God as the creator of reality just like we created the alternative reality (games) 

HOMO Liber Perquisitor

 To conclude I'll present the highest and maybe the true essence of man…the absence of essency for man is so free in its essence that we could never define it anyway. But we keep trying. We keep in search. 

This gives us neither the Essentialism (man that already having an Essence {given by God, for example}) neither Naturalism (man defined by natural causes). But man as a Volatile being. Free enough to transcend a definition of origin.

To conclude I would like to get it clear that man differs in appearance but not in essence. The first man just was not defined by its gender, color or culture, but he was defined by the characteristics that I quoted.