Re: [Mind's Eye] Re: feeling are seeing than reacting~~

Present company excluded of course. :p

On 6/23/2011 5:06 AM, paradox wrote:
> Insane apes?? Objection! lol.
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> On Jun 23, 3:49 am, Ash<ashkas...@gmail.com> 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.
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>> On 6/22/2011 2:05 PM, rigsy03 wrote:
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>>> 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<ashkas...@gmail.com> 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."<howardmos...@gmail.com>
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