GENIUS FORUMS

This is just a hypothesis and if someone has a better understanding of biology than myself, be my guest to correct what I am saying.

Past choices condition the brain and therefore increase the probability of future choices being the same as past ones.

And if ones past choices were sensual in nature then the end result is that you wind up having an addiction that is difficult to quit.

The continual pursuit of sensual experiences in the outward world establish unique neurological grooves in the brain. And the DNA must manufacture the neurotransmitters needed for the reactions within the nucleus of the cell. Moreover if the habit or addiction has reached a ‘critical severity’ then the DNA will manufacture all the needed chemicals before the individual actually makes the wrong choice.

The problem with this is that the excess of neurotransmitters that are floating around in the body creates a disturbance in the body; it creates an uncomfortable anxiety and it is accompanied by thoughts to act out the mechanistic addiction.

it appears that they body acts as a machine that prepares you to act out the wrong choice before your brain has even ‘thought’ about it. Many times the ‘thought’ is actually caused by the right causal conditions in terms of level of manufactured neurotransmitters and other chemicals necessary for the reaction.

Related to this: this is why the truth seeker must start his dissent for truth early in his life before any strong neurological grooves have been established. The neurological grooves also apply to the habitual modes of thinking by the ‘personality’. The ‘personality’ will use the same irrational patterns of thinking to derive feelings. And if they have been doing this for thirty years then their poor brain has absolutely no chance to receive truth.

In essence, their instrument (brain) has been permanently damaged.

You are right, Ryan. This is the way the body works. There are ways out of a bad groove, though.

What Ryan is saying goes along well with something I've been thinking about lately: "high maintenance personalities". We all know the kind of person who needs to be constantly entertained in an idiosyncratic way.

Believe it or not, I was thinking about this while mowing the lawn.

Mow your fucking lawn!

:)

There's this girl in my logic class who has started to make advances. I can already tell she's the high maintenance type (provoked by your post). I've just recently discovered, that if you can map the root, you'll discover that there's always something else you can learn from "people" (or "God"). And about yourself.

Ever heard Trey Anatasio play guitar?

Steven Coyle wrote:There's this girl in my logic class who has started to make advances.

Advances in logic? lol

I know what you mean. Something must be up with me if I'm taking swings at dangling participles today...

'Worldliness' of course is a term I use in a derogatory way, because I think that 'not being of the world' is the more rational state of being.

Steve wrote:

There's this girl in my logic class who has started to make advances. I can already tell she's the high maintenance type (provoked by your post).

Did you offend or disturb her yet? As you are probably aware, one tends to learn less by speaking more. So submission to the circumstances can be a virtue as long as one can eventually pull out, or eventually take control and bring an end to the foolishness.

I've just recently discovered, that if you can map the root, you'll discover that there's always something else you can learn from "people" (or "God"). And about yourself.

Yeah, that true. I learned about what a high maintenance person is by being around them, and also by being one to a degree.