Thank you, you're very kind :)
On Jun 23, 2:53 pm, Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > Present company excluded of course. :p > > On 6/23/2011 5:06 AM, paradox wrote: > > > > > 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 -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
