How do Indigenous cultures differ in their understandings of consciousness

This infographics shows three general models of how the Indigenous cultures understand consciousness. The Indigenous conceptualizations of consciousness vary widely between different cultural groups. This variability may be considered to be the result of different, culture-specific ways of Indigenous understanding of inner processes and the psyche, especially the different use and patterns of metaphoric-symbolic thinking. The Indigenous concepts have been formed by hundreds of years of specific routes of cultural evolution. The evolution of Indigenous cultures proceeded in their native habitat. The meanings that emerged in this process represent adaptive solutions that were optimal in the given environmental and social milieu. Indigenous understandings of consciousness represent an important inspiration for scientific discussions about the nature of consciousness.