@onlinebiker
"So do you consider yourself to be an out of control moron - or do you believe that inanimate objects make decisions for you?"
I can do without the ad hominem thanks sunshine. I'll ignore it.
To reply to the second question: I neither said not implied any such thing; it was the situation pushing my button. This was about feeling violated and powerless. I think violence would be a common male reaction in such circumstances.
I also think that human beings are incapable of consistent rational thought or behaviour. Most of our behaviour is the result of habit or a reaction from the reptilian brain. As a species we seem to do a large amount of our rational thinking to justify actions which have already happened or planned ones which we think are dubious.. So much so that it is my belief that " humans are not so much rational animals as we are rational-ising ones"
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"The brain stem is the oldest and smallest region in the evolving human brain. It evolved hundreds of millions of years ago and is more like the entire brain of present-day reptiles. For this reason, it is often called the 'reptilian brain'. Various clumps of cells in the brain stem determine the brain's general level of alertness and regulate the vegetative processes of the body such as breathing and heartbeat.
It's similar to the brain possessed by the hardy reptiles that preceded mammals, roughly 200 million years ago. It's 'preverbal', but controls life functions such as autonomic brain, breathing, heart rate and the fight or flight mechanism. Lacking language, its impulses are instinctual and ritualistic. It's concerned with fundamental needs such as survival, physical maintenance, hoarding, dominance, preening and mating. It is also found in lower life forms such as lizards, crocodiles and birds. It is at the base of your skull emerging from your spinal column. "
http://www.crystalinks.com/reptilianbrain.html
"So do you consider yourself to be an out of control moron - or do you believe that inanimate objects make decisions for you?"
I can do without the ad hominem thanks sunshine. I'll ignore it.
To reply to the second question: I neither said not implied any such thing; it was the situation pushing my button. This was about feeling violated and powerless. I think violence would be a common male reaction in such circumstances.
I also think that human beings are incapable of consistent rational thought or behaviour. Most of our behaviour is the result of habit or a reaction from the reptilian brain. As a species we seem to do a large amount of our rational thinking to justify actions which have already happened or planned ones which we think are dubious.. So much so that it is my belief that " humans are not so much rational animals as we are rational-ising ones"
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"The brain stem is the oldest and smallest region in the evolving human brain. It evolved hundreds of millions of years ago and is more like the entire brain of present-day reptiles. For this reason, it is often called the 'reptilian brain'. Various clumps of cells in the brain stem determine the brain's general level of alertness and regulate the vegetative processes of the body such as breathing and heartbeat.
It's similar to the brain possessed by the hardy reptiles that preceded mammals, roughly 200 million years ago. It's 'preverbal', but controls life functions such as autonomic brain, breathing, heart rate and the fight or flight mechanism. Lacking language, its impulses are instinctual and ritualistic. It's concerned with fundamental needs such as survival, physical maintenance, hoarding, dominance, preening and mating. It is also found in lower life forms such as lizards, crocodiles and birds. It is at the base of your skull emerging from your spinal column. "
http://www.crystalinks.com/reptilianbrain.html
