This is intriguing rigsy, and there are times when I am highly
instinctual though I have to keep it under wraps for obvious reasons.
Those Neanderthal genes showing again. I wonder if this is happening
when I stop to analyse things, sometimes a surreal state of stillness
with everything rushing in all at once. In my opinion those parts of the
brain, if still present, would hold answers to questions about our
deepest instinctual motives and explain our occasional ability to
accomplish nearly superhuman feats like lifting insane weights, reviving
from deep hypothermia, surviving a parachute failure and the like. I
joke about the seasons in the city- in the summer people are out on the
streets fighting and [loving], in the winter they are hibernating.
Sounds like the r-complex to me, another intersting bit is that the
iguana males establish power hierarchies but the females don't and the
health effects are very similar to human response to superiority+reward,
anxiety and stress. Not correlating gender differences here, perhaps the
old r-brain female instinct took backseat entirely a long time ago to
reward the insane ape's bent on continuous reproduction and foraging.
On 6/22/2011 2:05 PM, rigsy03 wrote:
Doesn't the balance depend on the situation/decision to be made? We
also have a reptile section of our brain which might over-ride
emotions or intellect.
On Jun 21, 4:03 pm, Ash<[email protected]> wrote:
Depends how you separate them, in general they seem to mean:
Heart - informed by your emotions and passions
Mind - informed by your knowledge and reasoning
I'm not at all sure which would encompass instinct, and disagree that
heart or mind can be cleanly divided like this. Our thinking gives
emotion meaning and emotion plays a part in reasoning too, both inform
both, but one can take a dominant position in making a decision. My type
is INFJ, though don't think this makes it more or less difficult to come
to the same conclusions as other types, it seems to effect mostly my
dominant thinking strategy/intuitive capacities. Whether my mind is in
healthy balance with innate tendencies is a whole other matter however. :D
On 6/21/2011 2:20 PM, paradox wrote:
Interesting...not sure; perhaps when the heart says "go" the mind says
"no", and when the mind says "go" the heart says "no"...perhaps.
On Jun 21, 8:42 am, "Howard Lee Mosely Jr."<[email protected]>
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