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Friday, May 15, 2009

During the course of a person's life, it is quite possible that one could predict the outcome of a situation due to"instinctual memory"?

- WTF is "instinctual memory" anyway? - I wonder if that's a real term? Well, I'm going to use it, because my instinct has a really good memory.
Maybe it has something to do with the "fight or flight" thing..

"The fight or flight response represents a genetically hard-wired early warning system—designed to alert us to external environmental threats that pose a danger to our physical survival. Because survival is the supreme goal, the system is highly sensitive, set to register extremely minute levels of potential danger. As such, the fight or flight response not only warns us of real external danger but also of the mere perception of danger."..Wiki

Seems about right - Now I know why I "flighted" my ass on down to NY. According to Wiki this hard wired response of ours is really not something that we can utilize for the sake of survival any longer.

Here's why:
"In most cases today, once our fight or flight response is activated, we cannot flee. We cannot fight. We cannot physically run from our perceived threats. When we are faced with modern day, saber tooth tigers, we have to sit in our office and "control ourselves." We have to sit in traffic and "deal with it." We have to wait until the bank opens to "handle" the bounced check. In short, many of the major stresses today trigger the full activation of our fight or flight response, causing us to become aggressive, hypervigilant and over-reactive. This aggressiveness, over-reactivity and hyper-vigilance cause us to act or respond in ways that are actually counter-productive to our survival. Consider road rage in Los Angeles and other major cities." - Wiki

Yupskers, that explains everything.
That explains the rampant disease factor.
We are up fucking shit's creek!!!!

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