The Evolution of the Brain

[Accelerating Expansion]

Kevin S. Wilson <rescyou at spro.net> wrote:

> You know, cutting-and-pasting a bunch of stuff written by people who
> know more big words than you isn't quite the same as posting something
> insightful, interesting, witty, or thought-provoking. If it were, I
> could cement my reputation as King of the USENET with a CD-ROM of the
> Great Works of Philosophy. Then the rest of you bunch could go home.

CLICK-----> http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/ <-----KCILC
 
> >Reiterations & Recapitulations...
> >
> >Preface:
> >"...Once you pose the problem of what it means
> >to be a person, even dumbly, weakly, or with a
> >veneer of pride about your imagined difference
> >from others, you may be in trouble. Introversion
> >is impotence, but an impotence already
> >self-conscious to a degree, and it can become
> >troublesome. It may lead to a chafing at one's
> >dependency on his family and his job, an ulcerous
> >gnawing as a reaction to one's embeddedness, a
> >feeling of slavery in one's safety. For a strong
> >person it may become intolerable, and he may try
> >to break out of it, sometimes by suicide,
> >sometimes by drowning himself desperately in
> >the world and in the rush of experience."
> >[...]
> >"At its extreme, defiant self-creation can
> >become demonic, a passion which Kierkegaard
> >calls 'demonic rage,' an attack on all of life
> >for what it has dared to do to one, a revolt
> >against existence itself."
> >[...]
> >"Socially, too, we have seen a defiant
> >Promethianism that is basically innocuous:
> >the confident power that can catapult man
> >to the moon and free him somewhat of his
> >complete dependence and confinement on
> >earth--at least in his imagination. The ugly
> >side of this Promethianism is that it, too,
> >is thoughtless, an empty-headed immersion
> >in the delights of technics with no thought
> >to goals or meaning; so man performs on the
> >moon by hitting golf balls that do not swerve
> >in the lack of atmosphere. The technical
> >triumph of a versatile ape, as the makers of
> >the film 2001 so chilingly conveyed to us."
> >[...]
> >"On more ominous levels, [...] modern man's
> >defiance of accident, evil, and death takes
> >the form of skyrocketing production of
> >consumer and military goods. Carried to
> >its demonic extreme this defiance gave us
> >Hitler and Vietnam: a rage against our
> >impotence, a defiance of our animal condition,
> >our pathetic creature limitations. If we don't
> >have the omnipotence of gods, we at least
> >can destroy like gods."
> >The Denial of Death(ISBN 0-684-83240-2)
> >by Ernest Becker©1973
> >
> >
> >Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites
> >http://www.banger.com/banger/spare/anathema/index.html
> >
> >Austin Osman Spare
> >http://www.kheper.auz.com/topics/Hermeticism/Spare.html
> >
> >Art and Artist, 1932
> >"This very essence of a man, his soul, which the artist
> >puts into his work and which is represented by it, is
> >found again in the work by the enjoyer, just as the
> >believer finds his soul in religion or in God, with whom
> >he feels himself to be one. It is on this identity of
> >the spiritual, which underlies the concept of collective
> >religion, and not on a psychological identification with
> >the artist, that the pleasurable effect of the work of
> >art ultimately depends, and the effect is, in this sense,
> >one of deliverance....But both [artist and enjoyer], in
> >the simultaneous dissolution of their individuality in a
> >greater whole, enjoy, as a high pleasure, the personal
> >enrichment of that individuality through this feeling of
> >oneness. They have yielded up their mortal ego for a
> >moment, fearlessly and even joyfully, to receive it back
> >in the next, the richer for this universal feeling."
> >
> >--Otto Rank Psychologist and Philosopher
> >1884 Vienna -- 1939 New York
> >http://www.ottorank.com/
> >
> >
> >Human Evolutionary Advancement
> >http://faculty.washington.edu/nelgee/
> >As part of the evolutionary genesis of species,
> >human beings share the physical and even emotional
> >traits of their animal cousins. However, human
> >behavior is in most areas quite different from other
> >primate behavior. It is the uniqueness of human
> >behavior that intrigued and fascinated Ernest Becker.
> >Drawing on a broad range of investigations and
> >writings, Becker pointed toward human language as
> >that which qualitatively sets human thought and
> >behavior apart from other primate behavior.
> >
> >We do not have concrete knowledge of when language
> >developed among that peculiar ape species from
> >which human beings have descended. Nor are we able
> >to adjudicate decisively between the various theories
> >for how this development took place. But we are sure
> >of the fact that with the development of language,
> >human self consciousness was made possible,
> >replacing instinctual stimulus-response behavior.
> >This is what is, in essence, distinctive about human
> >behavior and human existence.
> >http://faculty.washington.edu/nelgee/
> 
> --
> Kevin S. Wilson [Out-Of-Context-Commentator]
> Tech Writer at a University Somewhere in Idaho
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"For every person in the world to reach present 
U.S. levels of consumption with existing technology
would require four more planet Earths." 
              (*) - Edward O. Wilson 

"We are innately inclined to ignore any distant 
possibility not yet requiring examination. 
It is a hardwired part of our Paleolithic heritage."
                            (*) - E.O.W.

"The human brain evidently evolved 
to commit itself emotionally only 
to a small piece of geography." (*) - E.O.W.

"The pattern of human population 
growth in the 20th century was 
more bacterial than primate." (*) - E.O.W.

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World Population Doubles in Last 40 years: 
The highest world population growth rate 
was 2.04 percent in the late 1960's. 
This year, it is about 1.31 percent. --NY Times 

World population growth is equivalent to 
around three babies every second. --UNFPA '99 

New inhabitants add the equivalent of a city 
the size of San Francisco to world population 
every three days. --The Houston Chronicle Feb 2000 

The world's population broke through the 
one billion threshold in 1804. The second 
billion took 123 years to accumulate, and 
then each succeeding billion has come at 
an accelerating rate. --UNFPA '99 

It took just 12 years to leap from 5 billion 
to 6 billion. In the 19th century global population 
grew by only 600 million, but in the 20th century
it grew by 4.4 billion. There are twice as many people
today as there were in 1960. Even with a continued 
decline in fertility rates, the United Nations 
projects a population of 8.9 billion in 2050. 
With current trends, world population isn't expected 
to stabilize until after 2080.  --
http://www.overpopulation.org/faq.html
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          "Do we invent our moral absolutes 
         in order to make society workable? 
        Or are these enduring principles 
       expressed to us by some transcendent 
      or  Godlike authority? Efforts to resolve 
     this conundrum have perplexed, sometimes 
    inflamed, our best minds for centuries, but 
   the natural sciences are telling us more and 
  more about the choices we make and our reasons
 for making them." -- Edward O. Wilson
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98apr/biomoral.htm


 "As cognitive scientists have focused on the nature 
of the mind, they have come to characterize it not 
just as a physical entity, the brain at work, but 
more specifically as a flood of scenarios. Whether 
set in the past, present, or future, whether based 
on reality or entirely fictive, these free-running 
narratives are all churned out with equal facility. 
The present is constructed from the avalanche of 
sensations that pour into the wakened brain. 
Working at a furious pace, the brain summons 
memories to screen and make sense of the incoming 
chaos. Only a minute part of the information is 
selected for higher-order processing. From that
part, small segments are enlisted through symbolic 
imagery to create the white-hot core of enlisted 
activity we call the conscious mind." 
 [From: "The Future Of Life" by Edward O. Wilson]
(*)
http://www.sciam.com/2002/0202issue/0202wilson.html

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SEXUALITY: FEMALE EVOLUTION & EROTICA
 By Rhawn Joseph, University Press, 
ISBN: 09700733-6-4 Paperback, 
278 pages, Illustrated

 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know 
 About Female Sexuality 
 But Were Afraid to Ask... 

The human female is the sexiest female on 
the planet, and she continually advertises 
her sexual availability as she has evolved 
luscious swollen breasts and an enlarged 
derriere, which. among other primates signals 
sexual arousal or sexual availability. 
And the human female mimics the other 
sexual signs of primate-sexual-estrus by 
wearing cosmetics, perfume and rouge. 
Like other female primates and mammals,
she can sexually exhaust male, after male, 
afer male, and can experience orgasm after 
orgasm, often one after another, each becoming 
increasingly pleasurable, and with no lessening 
of sexual desire. It is her primate heritage; 
for whereas ancestral estrus-females may 
have had sex from 20 to 50 times per day 
and with all the males of her troop, when 
she entered "estrus," modern woman can have 
from 20 to 50 orgasms in a matter of hours.
Her sexual capacity makes her potentially 
insatiable, as well as the perfect prostitute 
and sex slave --sex slavery, according to the 
United Nations, being the sexual condition of 
200 million women world wide. Over the ages 
her sexuality has been exploited and condemned, 
and she has been worshipped as sex goddess, 
the Mother of All, and beaten, hanged, tortured 
and burned as demoness whore and carnal sin.
She is woman: the sexiest female on the planet.
              --Dr. Rhawn Joseph

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The Origin of Life: The Earth is an island, 
swirling in an ocean of space, and life has 
been washing ashore since the creation. 

Cosmic collisions are commonplace, not only 
between meteors and planets, but entire 
galaxies, and life has been repeatedly 
tossed into the abyss... only to land on 
other planets. 

The genetic seeds of life swarm throughout 
the cosmos, and these "genetic seeds," these 
living creatures, fell to Earth encased in 
stellar debris which pounded the planet for 
700 million years after the creation. 
And these "seeds" contained the DNA 
instructions for the metamorphosis of all 
life, including woman and man. 

DNA acts to purposefully modify the 
environment, which acts on gene selection, 
to fulfill specific genetic goals: the 
dispersal and activation of silent DNA, 
and the replication of life forms that 
long ago lived on other planets.

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