completely foreign and hostile environment, replaces the familiar artifacts, actions and language he has been separated from with new ones.
     Being an evolved contemporary Homo Sapiens, Hanks’ character was capable of assigning new artifacts to old meanings because it is assumed that he had completed development of the third circuit, including the third stage. In this stage, the symbols memorized up to this point solidify and the individual is capable of rearranging them and applying them to the intake and interpretation of new symbols throughout life. It is symbolized by the Scorpio, the most volatile and emotional figure in the Zodiac, ready to act accordingly to any situation. The third stage of the third circuit is also symbolized by the Bronze-Iron Age hominid that learned to chop, mine, melt and otherwise manipulate natural forms for survival and emotional expression.
     Socio-Sexual Circuit The fourth circuit is the one in which we find most of society, making it perhaps the most difficult to define and analyze. It is concerned with individuality, procreation, socialization, domestication, and homogeneity. The first stage of circuit four development is manifested in the attitudes of historic Mediterranean cultures, in which the male exploits physical power for sexual gratification and women are property and commodity. It is “explorative, receptive, self-centered, self-defined, orgasm-oriented, and narcissistically undomesticated” (Leary 94)—the horny Teenager: capable of reproduction but unfit for domesticated unity. The second stage is the integration of the genetic urgency to procreate and the rationalization that promiscuity does not support the effort to produce the fittest child—in short, domestication for the effort to pass on DNA successfully. However, not all genetic carriers are designed to be parents: “the variety of genetic and neural human types causes considerable confusion and social conflict. Laws, ethical codes and educational methods assume a [genetic_freak] homogeneity which does not exist” (Leary 96). This stage, only one step from complete development of the first four circuits, is where the bulk of Western, consumerist, capitalist, family-oriented, domestic population is found. They have evolved from considering themselves the only important person in their lives, but their concern stops at the family. They work, mate, court, groom, create, and live for the family.
     In the last stage of development of the fourth circuit, the earth-bound human species becomes homogenized. “The creative mind disappears. Cultural life-style, sex-role, private

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