Re: Evolution and Love


"Attys Erebos" <attys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> When applying evolutionary theories to humans, we should remember that
> there are two forces: cultural evolution and biological evolution. And
> nowadays cultural evolution is probably much more strong and powerful
> regarding behavior.
> Some human behaviors have a root of biological adaptation, but they
can
> be easily distorted by culture.
>
I have 'pinned down' (conceptualized and explained in a new,
complementary, way) how THIS DISTORTION OF OUR BIOLOGY (including
psychobiology) BY CULTURE (and by *other natural* sources of lifetime
challenges affecting pre and proto human populations during the
phylogeny of fauna) tends to be amplified by a *usually overlooked*,
automatic and insidiously dynamic, neuronal storage (a "conditioning
in", or "ctamping in" ;-> - i.e. "stamping" pragmatically spellt with an
equally acronym-building-allowing "c") of stressors that as if
"implore" - and that from a phylogenetic perspective *must induce* (in
order to be survived or adaptively coped with, i.e.) - a form of
"hibernation" (metabolism muting self-regulation) as *specific* as can
only come about through a *with synaptic selectivity* self-regulatory
inhibition.

All the brain "functures" [~ functionally involved structures], and by
implication genetic instructions, recquired for
us to be as functionally and mentally and behaviorally plastic
('plastically adaptable') and versatile as we (and, to a far lesser
degree, other animals) are, do obviously exist.

Moreover, many of them have also been scientifically indicated or proven
to exist, and conceptualized (though to a still insufficiently
convention-making extent).

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A few examples:

It is logically and rationally inescapable that functions responsible
for "habituation to irrelevant sensory stimuli" is naturally
supplemented by likewise neurological means of suppressing a flow of
sensory and instictively endogenously generated premotor signals (action
potentials) that threatens to motivate (excite/energize) a
self-defeating focus of mental and/or motor attention or activity - or,
in one 'sematically smeared out' word, "actention").

The commonly accepted use of the abbreviation "PTSD" (post traumatic
stress disorder) implies that FAR MORE THAN "shell-shock" and crime
induced types of traumatization can (and unfortunately do - unless
practically prevented) occur.

Enough research into the formation of memory imprints of different
classification has been done to warrant claiming that
"engrams" or "primal pain" or "CURSES" (how I have concEPTualized it)
can exist, and our natural and social histories and any perceptive
observation of what currently goes on and affects especially infants and
children, tells us that CURSES are inevitably still as if "put" - by
traumatizing lifetime conditions and events - into the brains of very
many (and to some degree in nearly all) of us.

[Hebb's postulate still holds and are here to stay true for ever!
"When an axon of cell A is near enough to excite a cell B and repeatedly
or persistently takes part in firing it, some growth process or
metabolic change takes place in one or both cells such that A's
efficiency, as one of the cells firing B, is increased."]

The umbrella term for this particular trophic interaction between our
genetic code and our environmental influences is
"long-term potentiation" (LTP). That is implicitly a LTP of synapsing
structures and of thus directly affected neurons' base-line firing
frequency and/or sensitivity to (and likelyhood of firing in response
to) incoming excitatory neuronal messages.

Almost the same scientific substantiation can be claimed for the
neuroscientific term "LTD" (Long-term depression).
That is, basically, incoming (excitatory) neuronal messages not being
relayed because the receiving synapses are more or less permanently
neurochemically blocked or "gated".

Differnet research that reveal our functional neuroanatomy and our
brains' capacity for trophic plasticity (e.g. in the form of sprouting
of new dendrites and axonal synapsing fibers) also weigh in.

[End of examples.]
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I understand the above "state of affairs" with help of

1. One new aptly concEPTualized and thoroughly defined principle (that
might be seen as a sub principle to Darwin's super-general principle
"natural selection"). Namely, "ambi-advantageously" adaptive mutations
(which I for an acronym-building reason pragmatically have been forced
to express as "ambi-advantageously evolved");

2. One on the surface "distinKtly" puerile acronym (derived from
"Specific [with synaptic selectivity] Hibernation Imploring Type [not
only of types that traumatize dramatically and/or at a 'top tempo' but
types that traumatizing tardily and relatively trivially] Stressors
[situations/stimulation]"

3. Only a few other, more or less 'light-making' acronymic and
non-acronymic etymologically pioneering terms.
The main term (or concEPT) of these is pronounced AEVASIVE.

It stands for a phrase that can be fairly freely worded as long as the
phonetic aim is maintained and as long as it is worded to the meaning
of: "Ambiadvantageously Evolved Veritable (or other suitable V-word)
Actention Selection (and/or System) Involving (amongst much else but
very instructively) Various 'Endoopiates' (i.e.
endorphins/enkephalins)".

This explanatory platform terminology (including some concEPTs not
mentioned in this post) and some relevant auxiliary science-aligned
reasoning and a metaphor for the Actention Selection System, was
contrived for the sake of and is the result of my very personal perverse
pursuit of a satisfyingly conceptually congealed and philosophy
finishing (rationally gnostic and "gallow+S_EPT_IC" humored) goal.

I proven that even fewer people than I predicted have been able to
appreciate EPT anywhere near the way I do.

C'est la vie! ;-|

P


--
Partly inspired by MAD (cold war shaming acronym) I arrived at EPT
[~ eclectic explanatory perversely pert philosophical terminology]
to by concEPTual lenses/tools reliably see/grasp how and why
AEVASIVE preoccupations (personalities) normally preclude making
in-dEPTh sense (of themselves).
In the acronym for "Ambiadvantageously Evolved, V-word, Actention
Selection (System), Involving Various Endorphins (et.al.)" AS(S) stand
for
that we behave according to our phylogenetically and individually
acquired
repertoire of, by mutual inhibition competing - cheered and booed by
current and past lifetime challenges - "actention modules";
AE refer to the Evolutionary Pressure Totality divided into
1. Opportunities (~primarily constructive causes of evolution)
2. Adversities - here especially SHITS [~Synaptic Hibernation Imploring
{negatively selective or inducing selective unconsciousness) Traumatic
{also tardily so) Situations - repercussively retained as
CURSES (type memories), aka "Pain" (Janov)]


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