Our Inner Emotions: (for y.a. by chat gpt) Chapter 4
How do normal bad feeling differ from mental illness?
How do normal bad feeling differ from mental illness?
Is mental illness a “chemical imbalance” or “All in the genes”
The Story of Our Social Emotions Our ability to connect, cooperate, and form societies didn’t just pop up overnight. It’s the result of millions of years of evolution, starting from our ape-like ancestors to the modern humans we are today. By tracing back the history of major mental illnesses, we can map out the journey …
We’ll explore the relationship between severe mental illnesses and our most basic, primal emotions that drive our social interactions.
Embark with me on a journey delving deep into the relationship between severe mental illnesses and the primal emotions fueling our social interactions.
Each layer can exert its own influenced if needed,
And is modulated into the layer below:
Why do we, alone among primates, retain rounded breasts when not nursing?
In the Beginning we were frightened, solitary, and nocturnal creatures. Then 50 million years ago, we drew together into groups, And left the dark of night to bask in the sunshine together. The fear of leaving (or being left) by one another Subdued the primal urge to fight or flee from one another Sufficiently for …
It was a willfulness, an exertion, which verged At once on fluency, that I should appear, as I did Today, out of light-blue air, in a dark-blue suit.
Psychologist Michael Tomasello, who studies comparatively the social behavior of developing children and apes, proposes that collective communication is uniquely human and that it was evolved for collaborative foraging, and so teamwork has been the crucial human advantage. The central facts about our ancestral human species, such as upright posture, large molar teeth, and later, …
A lifeless collection of amino acids
acquires the rudiment of life, which is to replicate.
Human: Which is more important to society: freedom or justice? AI: That’s a difficult question to answer, as both freedom and justice are important values that help shape our society. They are both essential to preserving our freedoms and maintaining a safe and just community. Ultimately, it depends on the context of the situation and …
This blog maintains that the emergence of humans six million years ago represented a rare biological “transition” to collective function similar to “eusocial” insects, mainly ants, bees and termites. For the first time, there has been a reliable estimate of how many ants are on earth. This paper illustrates that collective function has propelled both …
I have commented on this blog that doctors have been around longer than soldiers, and now there is proof. At a time when there is virtually no evidence of organized violence (war) there is new evidence of a sophisticated, and successful amputation 31,000 years ago in Bornio. From Science, 7 September, 2022 by Michael Price: …
This blog maintains that upright posture is the sine qua non human trait because: 1) humanity is defined by a shift to collective functioning; 2) collective function requires a “public” communication system to coordinate the behavior of individuals; and 3) upright posture enabled the face-and-upper-body to become the instruments of the simultaneous-and-continuous communication that is …
The similarity of ancestral humans and dolphins.
In the past several years, a series of books and studies by prominent scientists are quietly revolutionizing the human evolutionary narrative. Yuval Harari in his Sapiens (2014) makes no bones about his view: “The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment …
Archaeological analysis suggests an arms race in ironworking and cavalry spurred bureaucracy and bigger populations From Science June 28, 2022 by Michael Price War is hell. It breaks apart families, destroys natural resources, and drives humans to commit unspeakable acts of violence. Yet according to a new analysis of human history, war may also prod …
a previously unknown period from 80 to 20 thousand years ago is shown to have diffuse interbreeding across the entire continent of Africa.
the authority of truth, which had reigned supreme over six million years of collaboration within the countless tribes of our ancestral species, all in passionate deliberation as to which path would be the most righteous and correct way forward for all as a single creature.
