Re: Tribute to Peter F



You write:

JE:-
IMHO Peter is making two important arguments:

1) It is possible to categorize selective forces.


2) We have inherited a psychology that enables us to evade the testable

truth of any matter whenever it conflicts with our beliefs and/or
status
position.


I would invite Peter to correct me if the above is not correct.

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Mr. Edser:

You didn't provide the post by Peter you are referencing. I provide it
below and would be interested in how you reached the conclusion "it is
possible to categorize selective forces" and we have inherited a
psychology that enables us to evade testable truth of any matter
whenever it conflicts with our beliefs and/or status position." Whether
Peter responds or not I would be interested in your supporting
evidence. If one operates on the premise Peter's posting is a form of
modern art (I don't know what the literary corollary would be called,
this shouldn't be too difficult. Big fan of the Bauhaus School. Way
ahead of their time.

Michael Ragland

Sincerely,
Michael Ragland


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Date: 25 Oct 2001 14:00:27 -0400
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Our capacity to be religious evolved because it ameliorates
*maladaptive*
misery.


N.B.
Religiosity is just one kind of many different persistent
preoccupations
that as a matter of a general neurological principle [i.e., of
"mutually
inhibitory 'psychomotor modules" - a more general and realistically
encompassing 'kin' to the principles of "center/surround
excitation/inhibition" and "lateral inhibition"] 'preconsciously
precludes'
(almost a tautology!) actually experienced "selective *HibernationT*
imploring type situations" --- come CURSES alt. CKHHURSES [respectively

the
short and the long abbreviation of the explanatory statement:
"Conditioned-in, Kept *HibernatedT*, Hence Unconsciously Remembered
{and
ususually rerouted representations of} Stressors {of SHITS-type}
effecting
symptoms"] --- from becoming a content of *ConsciousnessT* [or IOW from



becoming a fully preferentially energized "focus of
*actention*(~=reactive
attention")].


Very many human behaviours (also including many predominantly mental
such)
are "ambi-advantageous" (or, pragmatically put, "ambi-advantageously
evolved") adaptations specifically to the frequent life-situational
simultaneousness (or phylogenetic fugue of 2 thematic types of
"evolutionary
pressures" - SHITS (subset of Adversity) type pressures, and
Opportunity
type evolutionary pressures.


I refer to these behaviours (and to their corresponding brain functions

and
overall evolutionary tendency and trend in phylogeny - although at
times
only a latent 'leaning' of our phylogenetic lineage) as AEVASIVE
(Ambi-advantateously Evolved ..etcetera)


P


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