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Originally posted by ssecret132
going back to my favorite phscyologist, jung. He believed in the collective unconscious of all beings.
"Man is born with many predispositions for thinking, feeling, percieving, and acting in specific ways. A fear of something can develop quite easily if the predisposition to feel fear already exists in the collective unconscious." He showed that evoluton and heredity provide blueprints of the psyche as they provide blueprints of the body. The mind is preconfigured by evolution. Thus the individual is linked with his past, not only the past of his infancy but more importanly with the past of the species and before that with the long stretch of organic evolution.
He also believed in archetypes and primordal images, which were swimming in sorts, in the unconscoius. Its kind of hard to explain, but he believed that when every person is born, or even before their born, they have pri-mordal images that man inherits from his ancestrial past, a past that includes all human ancestors as well as his prehuman or animal ancestors. These racial images are not inherited in the sense that a person consciously remembers or has images that his ancestors had. Rather they are predispositions or potentialities for experiencing and responding to the world in the same ways that his ancestors did. In others words genetics, in my opinion(mutation, evolution, natural selection)
archetypes are another different and interesting part of it. ill post it later, sorry. You guys ever see that movie mindwalk, these posts remind me of it |
ok, think about this,... if this world is about survival of the fittest and evolution then why is it that when someone suffers brain damage and brain cells die, why don't they grow back?? What is the evolutionary advantage of that when 1.5 to 2 million people in the united states alone suffer from TBI (traumatic brain injury a.k.a. brain damage)?? Just posing a question because i myself don't even know,... it's just something me and my friends ended up talking about after discusing a similar topic,...
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
-both by Henry B. Adams
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
-Albert Einstein