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    Individuality: Creation versus Adaptation

    Individuality: Creation versus Adaptation Creation/Adaptation—Meaning/Biology—creation is to adaptation as meaning is to biology. Our species is a great experiment by Mother Nature—can a species of animals with self-consciousness survive quick extinction? We might usefully consider our...
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    Psychoanalysis is Quantum Mechanics

    That is interesting! I congratulate you and wish you good luck.
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    Psychoanalysis is Quantum Mechanics

    Math is a good example of what is not natural but is artificial.
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    Evolution has not prepared us for this

    Modality-=-of or relating to structure as opposed to substance. Sophistication: Recognizing piece, part, and whole In “Art and Visual Perception”, the author Rudolf Arnheim speaks of the master cook “whose cleaver remained sharp for nineteen years because when he carved an ox, he did not cut...
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    Psychoanalysis is Quantum Mechanics

    I agree and the great sadness is that our (American) educational system produces specialist in both the natural sciences and the human sciences who are completely ignorant of the basics of the other science. Such ignorance leaves our society with insufficiently sophisticated thinkers qualified...
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    Psychoanalysis is Quantum Mechanics

    Psychoanalysis is Quantum Mechanics I use the metaphor Psychoanalysis is Quantum Mechanics as a linguistic means to convey to you my comprehension of PSA (psychoanalysis) is somewhat based upon my comprehension of QM (quantum mechanics). This is not to say that I know a lot about either of...
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    Socrates says “know thyself”: I say which self?

    I guess that anyhing is possible.
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    Socrates says “know thyself”: I say which self?

    Extended consciousness Antonio Damasio is a scientist who has set out to organize a scientific study of human consciousness. Damasio utilizes a rather unique method that involves careful observation of individuals who have been deprived of some aspects of consciousness because of brain lesions...
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    Socrates says “know thyself”: I say which self?

    Becker holds K in high regard. Becker devotes a chapter "The Psychoanalyst Kierkegaard" in his Pulitzer Prize winning Denial of Death. To quote Becker: "In the last few decades a new discovery of K has been taking place, a discovery that is momentous because it links him into the whole...
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    Socrates says “know thyself”: I say which self?

    Socrates says “know thyself”: I say which self? I don’t know what happened to me. I was beside my self with worry. My pet dog Fido uses his imagination to create image schemas to help him to comprehend and move about in his world. I use my imagination in much the same way but because my...
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    Evolution has not prepared us for this

    We must observe and study, and then we must make judgments based upon these observations and study and upon our Critical Thinking ability.
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    Evolution has not prepared us for this

    That is my point. With the introducton of abstract reasoning technology dwarfs anything that natural selection can do.
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    Evolution has not prepared us for this

    Some deny that such a thing as difference in kind exists. I agree with such thought if we examine the matter on a very deep level. We can say, based upon the Big Bang theory, that all entities are different only in degree. In common thought we recognize a difference in kind from a rock and a...
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    Evolution has not prepared us for this

    Metta You ask me about Rank’s essay but you did not identify what essay you speak of. The reference Truth and Reality is a book. Self-consciousness is a short hand way of addressing the concept of abstract thinking. Only the human animal has the capacity of abstract thinking. The ego/will...
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    Evolution has not prepared us for this

    Evolution has not prepared us for this Humans are animals with self-consciousness. This self-consciousness may show it self to some small degree in other animals but this capacity for self-consciousness makes our species different in kind from other animals and this difference makes all the...
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    Crude Poetic Justice?

    Wiki says: “Poetic justice is a literary device in which virtue is ultimately rewarded or vice punished, often in modern literature by an ironic twist of fate intimately related to the character's own conduct." To call this situation poetic justice is not to say that it is justice that this...
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    Crude Poetic Justice?

    The United States with 5% of the global population, which consumes 25% of the global production of petroleum, becomes tarred with petroleum; that is poetic justice!
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    Crude Poetic Justice?

    I suggest the book The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi The following are a few of the posts I have made based upon the study of that book that book: Human and Social Degradation of Early Capitalism The mercantile system was hodgepodges of economic theories dominate throughout...
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    Crude Poetic Justice?

    In a democracy such as we have in the United States the people are sovereign and thus responsible for the situation that exists. The lack of intellectual sophistication of the citizens is the fault of those citizens. The basic problem began when the people allowed them self to be convinced...
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    Crude Poetic Justice?

    Crude Poetic Justice? Wikipedia informs me that “poetic justice” is a notion that fictional literature takes on as a cultural demand whereby literary outcomes must support moral standards by justifying in the end the virtuous behavior of the good guy and punishing the bad behavior of the bad...
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