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RE: Human Nature - 5/5/2009 7:16:32 PM

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Wilde was a genius. "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."

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RE: Human Nature - 5/6/2009 12:38:54 AM

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I am confused as to which attributes can be considered nature.

All of them.

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RE: Human Nature - 5/6/2009 5:07:24 AM

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Might be hard to believe, but for some people, it is a natural as breathing; though I have to say, I don’t deal much with monkeys; I hear they throw shit, and the lizards I have encountered recently, aren’t saying much.
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Really? You think and choose about everything? So if you feel something crawling up your arm, you don't automatically try to swat it/get it off? Instead you think "Hmmm, maybe that's just a daddy longlegs and not a poisonous spider, so I'll let it keep crawling". We instinctively react to get rid of possible threats even if the threat the original response rarely exists anymore.

About the lizard brain and the monkey brain, I meant that literally. Our brain is not all one, responses to crawling sensations come from the earliest ancestors and cause an immediate autonomic response. Other responses come from later ancestors and are built in reflexes, we are designed with flight/fight/freeze in response to possible danger. We cannot overcome them in a moment when there is no time to think about things.

You may find a book called "Blink" to be an interesting read.

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RE: Human Nature - 5/6/2009 10:54:54 AM

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Really? You think and choose about everything?

I meant in the manner of constantly analyzing choices that have been made, in order to prepare for further decision making.

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So if you feel something crawling up your arm, you don't automatically try to swat it/get it off?

As a gerneral rule, no. I tend to only have that reaction when being bitten (black flies, mosquitoes). Otherwise, removal without death is usually the course of action.

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Our brain is not all one, responses to crawling sensations come from the earliest ancestors and cause an immediate autonomic response.

Isn’t it true that youngsters often do not respond in the same manner to things crawling on them, as adults? If so, would it still fit the idea of immediate autonomic response?

Would you agree that what is perceived as a danger, and how a person handles a given situation, changes, when an individual is informed and alert? Could much of what is considered ‘human nature’ simply derive from being distracted and uninformed?

Is that; “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”?

Kim

Side note: It is my understanding; Daddy longlegs are deadly poisonous, possibly the most.

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