Picture Class Four represents life forms that possess a capacity to realize an ultimate concept of construction|destruction: the life or death of its self and other objects.
The ideal concept of Life is defined as an organization of the mind that can perceive some “thing” alive separate from the animate object. Life in an ideal sense implies a living nature. The cognitive construct labeled Life is as a symbol, or as an idea of something living and then connected to a physical, tangible, or animate object. The definition of the concept of Death is an organization of mind that distinguishes something dead separate from the animate object. Death in an ideal sense implies a nature void of and disconnected from Life.
The cognitive constructs Life or Death can be represented or perceived symbolically within material forms, or conjured as emotive properties, or engaged with endeavors employing ideas of life and death as goals. The concepts of Life or Death can be conceived as separate from the physical, intangible, or animate object.
Homo Sapiens possess the capacity to form the ideal concepts of Life and Death because we commemorate said concepts with rituals of birthdays and funerals. Neanderthals were the first hominids thought to have buried their dead.[16]
The human animal is not only genetically endowed with capacities to preserve and destroy, it has also been endowed with a capacity to conceptualize an idealistic though impractical form of preservation of its self, i.e. the idea of continuous and perpetual life. An ideal concept of Life to form a balance in the mind for the gathering gloom: the inevitable and permanent nature of Death.