A reflection arisen from Tom's "My Response to Shapiro"


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Thus life is not an origin, but a chemical response that better suits
those chemicals to their environment.

As I see it, some molecules must have been more 'perfectly poised to prevail
and to preceed phylogeny proper' and they in turn were (as I think in my own
evolution pertaining terms about these things) patterning events whose
occurrence realized near-enough-at-hand evolutionary *patterning
opportunities* (or prevalent enough preconditions for such patterns not have
remained mere potentials).
Moreover, I see that meanwhile (at the same time) these, in hindsight
suitably resilient, chemical bonds were buffetted by destructive
environmental influences/factors.

When I move this philosophical picture along to the level of
complexity exemplified by individually reproductive motile cells (i.e. to
the beginning of the
"fair dinkum" phylogeny of fauna) then what emerges in my mind are examples
of the second AND _secondary_ of these two super categories of all
conceivable patterns of evolutionary patterning.

[The two "super categories" are the constructive and destructive aspects of
the "evolutionary pressures totality" (EPT) - here EPT is nothing but a
dialectic dichotomization made in an autodidactical effort to deal with (*at
least* meant as in: to philosophically overview or understand) both our
origins and how we are.]

At the level of complexity reached by multicellular and most especially
neuromuscular animals I find it natural to start think (of this dichotomy)
in terms of "opportunity and adversity type evolutionary pressures".
What has accordingly also arisen *in my mind* is a philosophical 'post hoc
percEPTion (~ an after-the-fact-foreseeing) of what kind of phenotype will
have tended to emerge as a result of relevant evolutionary *opportunity type
pressures* (of course most centrally opportunities to *reproduce*) having
"operated in tandem with" adversity type (always primarily negatively
selective or 'naturally pruning') pressures.

Lifetime examples of the latter super-category can in turn be sorted into a
two (2) primarily adverse (or threatening), behavior selecting/motivating as
well as naturally selective (not least significantly so in respect of our
own phylogeny), types of "pressures" (~factors/forces/causes), namely:

1. "Adversity" (type pressures) in the form of current environmental
influences (or predicaments or ordeals) that requires (in order to be
survived) the existence of neural mechanisms that closes synaptic gates in
"pain (pain and fear producing) pathways" - "gates" which if they remain
open (or did not exist) would definitely lead to a *self-defeating* focusing
or paying of a distress or flight (or fight) type "actention"; or, IOW, it
would lead to a futile/truly hopeless and effectively suicidal
preoccupation/reaction/behavior; or, in yet other words, it would lead to a
ditto *attention* (as in minfulness) and/or to a ditto emotional and/or
visceromotor *activity* (hence the amalgam "actention").

2. The persistent, reverberatory, potentially pernicious, imprinted dynamic
"postludes" (CURSES or "Pain") of such *pain gating*-requiring predicaments.



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