From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 11:59:07 MST
"Hubert Mania" <humania@t-online.de>
> "reptile brain", regulate your alertness when your personal territory
>seems to be attacked. [.] The slightest threatening is answered by
tightly wired
>behaviour with almost no options left.
It's called the fight or flight response. The trouble in the present
circumstance it is no clear where to run away to and that limits options.
>This is a very powerful ancient evolutionary program. Difficult to
>overcome.
Why would you want to overcome it? Over the last 600 million years or so
ever since brains were invented the algorithm has proved itself to have
considerable survival value.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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