A definition of "Hibernatory self-regulation":
The phylogenetic background or naturally
selective cause of the spectrum of "Hibernation-mode" self-regulation is an
commensurately 'broad and spectral' subset of adversity-type selection
pressures.
HibernationT (the T-tag flags the Tenuousness of this concept and the
Tolerance-principled attitude that this requires) can be
described and defined with elastic reference to the
acronym forming (and suitably 'sounding') abbreviation of the expression
"selective Hibernation imploring type situations".
HibernationT (or Hibernatory self-regulation) may mean, from, a relatively
"mild SHITS" where the acronym is best derived from
"selective habituation instilling type stimulation", through mild *to
severe* but most of all relatively *regularly* occurring SHITS where this
acronym is
best be derived from "seasonal Hibernation inviting type situation(s)", to
any
severe and irregularly occurring SHITS where the acronym is least ineptly
derived from "*_selective (or specific) Hibernation_ imploring* type
situation(s)".
The unifying functional and adaptive feature of "Hibernatory
self-regulation" (the capital H is used by me to illustrate the concept's
expanded meaning to suit this explanatory context) is a suppression of
cell-metabolism. In this sense "Hibernatory" inhibition is precise or
"selective" enough to conserve vital and potentially reproductive resources
by preventing the maladaptive depletion of vital cellular energy and
molecular materials that would follow any futile unchecked firing by even a
single directly distress-motivating neuron;
Hibernatory self-regulation (in this particular respect) is something which
according to the *almost common sense* definition of "a SHITS" - is a
function that in phylogeny inevitably has tended to evolve, and that
normally is automatically activated whenever an individual is 'in a
SHITS' -- something that with significant frequency *do* happen.
My main focus is and will always
remain on the lastly listed sense of SHITS (i.e. on "selective Hibernation
imploring type situations"), because it is in this area of the spectrum
of "Hibernatory states" that *the symptoms* of Hibernatory inhibition tend
to be most insidious, severe and far-reaching. It is beside the scope of
this post, but it is also the zone of the "Hibernation spectrum" where the
AEVASIVE aspect of our psychophysiology and phylogeny significantly (and in
some respects seriously) compromises our capacity to be conscious.
Peter
P.S..
The acronym SHITS is only a deceptively inept concept. This conclusion
logically flows, for example from the fact that all relevant
*science-aligned* rationales (manner of reasoning) suggest this definitional
overlap
between brain-states of "selective" (as in functionally discrete or
localized)
"Hibernation", and states of "selective UNCONSCIOUSNESS".
