"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:xfHb9.1698$jG2.107390 at bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> What the evolutionary-'engineer' did was to physically structure our
> nervous systems so that, when 'painful' stimuli are encountered our
> nervous systems 'strive' to achieve one 'goal'.
<snip>
> the result is that our bodies
> tend, strongly, to 'move away from' environmental sources of noxious
> stimulation. Get it? The muscles that were most-activated while
> 'moving toward' what turned out to be noxious environmental stuff,
> become the least-activated muscles, etc., so the body 'moves away
> from' the environmental source of noxious stimulation.
>> It's an exceedingly-beautiful solution to a problem having
> infinitely-large scope. It's overall simplicity is what enables our
> nervous systems to solve the problem of 'pain'-avoidance in
> milli-second 'time'-frame.
>> Evolutionary dynamics 'decided' that this problem-resolution was so
> important to our survival that they carried it forward, even into the
> 'highest-levels' of nervous system function - all the way up into
> 'cognition' and 'volition', like we all express in our posts in this
> or that newsgroup.
>> In doing so, however, evolutionary dynamics built a tragic-flaw into
> our nervous systems.
Pain can arise at the level of physical injury and be motor-responded-to at
the level of the spinal chord, but it can also originate (neurologically
i.e.) at the level of the thalamus and the limbic cortex.
Furthermore, and for one thing, what you largely evade is what happens when
the cause of pain is a SHITS (which cannot be physically moved away
from).(?)
[By the way: You, Kenneth, has become my *temporary* target (I hereby
promise to let you off the hook after this!) because, for one, you don't
completely ignore my complaint ;->; nor do you, as certain others have done,
'cave in' to my high-quality complaint by getting acutely and very
noticeably *more* crazy! ;-)]
At the 'innocuously onerous' end of the spectrum of SHITS there are examples
such as, e.g., the "badly-needing-an-income, starting-work-in-a-piggery"
example;
In the periphery, there are
"evolutionary-ancestors-caught-by-seasonal-adversity that phenotype-molded
instinctive weather-Hibernating life-styles" examples;
And, at the other end there are all the examples of what most people both
instinctively and as a result of personal conditioning by SHITS [and who
then also automatically get "Conditioned-in Chronically Kept 'Hibernated'
Hence Unconsciously Reverberating Stressors Effecting Symptoms" (~= CURSES
for short,) put into their brains] tend to deal with in ways that can be
called "AEVASIVE".
These our ("ambi-advantageously evolved") "AEVASIVE ways", roughly range
*from*, what may somewhat more conventionally be described -- with an
implicit derogation that gets 'defeated' whence we understand and instead
use the term "AEVASIVE" -- as 'nicely neurotic' ways (i.e., well-adapted in
re-/productive and/or creative ways), to, criminally insane or psychotic
ways (when our AEVASIVE mechanism are weak or damaged and/or are having to
deal with more than 'they' can handle).
[By the way CURSES are not *so much* centred in the neocortex *as* in the
amygdala regions of the allocortex and limbic-circuits.]
Peter
