A Solution?:

From the active inanimate to model builders ...
adaptive, sophisticated, creative entities lacking "consciousness", "intentionality", internal sense of "meaning", internal sense of "self/other", internal sense of "time" ... things acting in ways that cause story-tellers to infer the existence of properties that don't in fact come into existence until story-tellers had evolved and created them

• Organization in the absence of "intent"
  The Game of Life

  http://template.bio.warwick.ac.uk/staff/amillar/Video.html

• Purposive behavior in the absence of "purpose"
  Langton's Ant
  Circadian rhythms in plants

• Choosing in the absence of "choice"
  Bacterial movement and feeding
  Euglena phototaxis

• Cooperation in the absence of "morality"/"altruism"
  (forget "selfish gene"; remember genes lack "intent", selection acts not on genes but on organisms)
  Flocking
  Ant foraging
  Prisoner's Dilemma

• Communication in the absence of "language"
  Beyond signalling "language" is ... ?
  (a way of exploring new possibilities of understanding?)

• Social organization in the absence of "culture"
  Beyond social interaction "culture" is ... ?
  (a way of exploring new possibilities of human interactions?)

From the model builders to the story tellers ...
accelerating the process of exploration, without and with language ... recognizing models, using the models themselves to bring about new things ... what more do the WORDS mean? what more do we think we can do? and if we can, how?

• the bipartite brain as a product and an accelerator of evolution

  

• "thinking" without language (creating with pictures, movements, etc; for "with" see below)
  

  By Roger N. Shepherd, from The Minds Eye: Finding Truth in Illusion

  
  
  

  From Almost Real

• "morality" without/with language

  HONOR THY FATHER

• "personal responsibility" without/with language

  THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY

• story telling without/with "time"

• language/language-based culture as an accelerator of the accelerator

  Words can bring into potential existence things that had not previously existed (and themselves have causal efficacy, reproduce, etc = "memes")

  • "Time" - the idea of time as a location makes potentially possible time travel
  • "Altruism" - as a distinctive characteristic different from simply mutual interdependence/cooperation make potentially possible behaviors which are not for certain in one's own self-interest and don't fit existing models/stories
    • "I am, and I can think, therefore I can change who I am"
    • An example?
  • "Story" - as something more than model-building and narrative makes possible "platonism", "great chain of being", "creationism", "evolution" and ... changes both in "self" and in "culture" ?

Evolution ...

• The active inanimate ... trying out new things (combinations of stuff), seeing whether they last
• Model builders ... trying out new things (inanimate and animate, combinations of both), seeing whether they last
• Story tellers ... trying out new things (inanimate, animate, and story, combinations of all), seeing whether they last, knowing one is doing it?
• Language based story tellers ... trying out new things (inanimate, animate, story, language based stories, combinations of all), seeing whether they last, knowing one is doing it

To be continued ...