A NEW VIEW OF BEHAVIOUR AND THE OMNI-ENVIRONMENT.
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In a message dated 12/30/2007 11:44:00 AM Eastern Standard Time,
GEVANS613 at aol.com writes:
THE NATURE OF BEHAVIOUR
For the human brain, ensconced on high in its protective bony carapace, the
human body is as much a part of the environment as anything else. I do not
hold with a psychological environmental dualistic model of environmental
intrinsicality – extrinsicality. There is plenty of empirical evidence to support the
view that corporeally we are a result of our genes. For me behaviour is the
brain’s manner of exercising control over its own constitutional (corporeal )
environment together with, and in an overall response, to the exterior
environment. This article must be read in the sense that the word *environment*
refers to the brain’s somatic milieu, as well as the exterior environment of
which the human holism is a part.
>From that I see no reason why other (normal) behaviours should not be
genetically programmed, default, instinctual, gene-engendered, drives and traits
responding and undergoing modification to the changing omni-environment. I agree
with those experts who define behaviour as BOTH standard physiological
responses (the tortoise withdrawing into its shell) and *intentional activity* or
*purposeful behaviour* - the emotional and aggressive throwing of a brick
through the window of a child molester perhaps? In that sense if I run away
from a man with a gun, or throw an egg at a corrupt politician I am responding in
a way my genes dictate – and my genes are determining who I am.
Does that mean, Jud, that your genes are immutably predisposed, fixed in
*moira* or *kismet?* I thought you had read my article on “The New Determinism”
(PREDETERMINATION AND A QUESTION OF ALTERNATIVES , “A Critical Review:
Hyperobjective Reality and the New Determinism” by Bernard X. Bovasso:
http //members.aol.com/bernx/bohm1.htm ). Or perhaps you have not heard about
the epigenetic trend among evolutionists and the re-polishing of Lamark.
Bernard
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