Sorry Peter, I'm too-'tired' to 'play', so I stand on what I've
posted.
k. p. collins
Peter F. wrote in message <2rXb9.73$Sr6.3455 at ozemail.com.au>...
>>"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>news:xfHb9.1698$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
>>
