Insane apes?? Objection! lol.
On Jun 23, 3:49 am, Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> > >>> wrote: > >>>> how do you think with your heart or mind.- Hide quoted text - > >> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
