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XI. The Personal, Or Rather, The Interactive, Certainly Is Political

Formal Table of Contents
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Contextual Materials

I. Illuminating The Schema

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Protean Development

The schema that DNA has arrived at for genetic replication includes what biologists sometimes call "protean development". This means that one of the constant processes by which genes continue to be replicated is by forming into increasingly more advanced configurations over time. One could say that this is a system whereby the ecosystem draws on things that have already been created or built, combines them together adding some new form, and builds something more advanced - all towards the end of replicating an original pattern, although necessarily as part of increasingly advanced configurations.

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Advancement of Logical Level

An Early Chapter Of The Full Paradigm (see table of contents below) Precisely Defines "Logical Levels" As Used Here.

In One Sentence? . . . Well . . .

The System of Logical Levels As Used Here Means
Making A Clear And Sharp Distinction Between

"A-Single-System-With-Many-Interactive-Parts",
Which Is A High Level Thing;

The Distinction Between That And

"One Element Among Many" or "One Element In A System"
Which Is A Low Level Type Of Thing.

A Different Type Of Logic Is Used When You Are Talking
About A System, "All", And An Element In A System,
A "One Of Many". It's Not That Complicated.

There's Not Much More To It. In Volume One, Chapter Two, "Logical Types And Logical Levels" (c 1983), There Are Precise Definitions, Explanations, Illustrations, And Application Examples, Presented With Appropriate Credit To Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, Gregory Bateson, And Paul Watslawick.

Something That Is, At One Time, An Overall System, A High Level System, Is, Over Time, Joined By Other High Level Systems, And Each, Because There Are Now Many, Become Low Level Elements In A Still Higher Level System. The Big Changes, The Advancements, Are Advancement In Ever Higher Logical Levels Of Organization. That Is The Way Of Things Within The Particular Bioecosystem At This Star.

Advancing In Logical Levels Doesn't Mean Larger In Size, Nor More Massive, Nor "Sweeping Away Old Things. It Means A Better, More Comprehensive, More Solving Way Of Organizing Things, to Fit The Billion Year Old, Work Out Well Design.

On This Particular Planet, Within This Particular Bioecosystem, This Particular 5-Billion Year Old Collection Of 'Forces Of Physics', This Particular, 'Great Committee In The Sky', So To Speak: Time, Space, Motion, Attractiveness, Mass, 'Waves', Form, Whatever Else; At This Particular Star, Within Nature At Its Strongest, There's Plenty New Under The Sun.

An "All" Type Of Thing, Consisting Of Many Parts, Is "High Level"; A "One-Of-Many" Type Of Thing Is "Low Level". That's the Big Imagination Leap; But It's Not That Hard To Imagine. Specially Once It's All Clearly Defined. Harder Than Addition And Subtraction I Suppose, But Easier Than Algebra.

An overall biological system that duplicates or perpetuates itself without creating advancement does not survive - never did, never could. Many gene patterns do survive intact, indeed, some for more than a billion years. But in order for them to do so, there must be combination, in increasingly higher level form over time.

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From Genetic Advancement To Neuro-Electron 'Idea' Type Advancement.

From Genetic Advancement To Neuro-Electron 'Idea' Type Advancement

This "protean replication" system, at the heart of what is sometimes called 'evolution' or 'creation', engendered a continuing advancement of internal hierarchical sophistication from earlier species to later species through a combination of "mutation" and "natural selection". Over a billion years time, species developed which contained within each member, more and more advanced levels of internal hierarchical arrangement - that is, increasing levels of sophistication, from protein molecules to cells to plants to fish to reptiles to mammals to primates. With the emergence of pre-man in the last several million years, and man in the last 100,000, there has obviously been an enormous leap.

After all this time, a species - Homo Sapiens - has emerged, each of whose individual members can do in the world at large and in their own individual lifetime what was previously accomplished mainly through genetic advancement from one species to the next. This constitutes an entirely new and different level of development for the entire bio-ecosystem, an enormous advancement in a very short time. Such spectacularity is typical of what happens when an entire level of hierarchical sophistication is properly - that is to say truthfully - organized into something more advanced.

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Out-Of-The-Blue Factors

Advancement Requires New "Out-Of-The-Blue" Type Factors.

For humans, "protean replication" is manifested not in advancing genetic sophistication but rather in the combining of conscious ideas and physical things external to the organism itself, again creating increasingly higher levels of advancement. It must be emphasized that what has come before is, in and of itself, never enough to create something more advanced. The building process must always exceed what has come before. In genetic terms, this is made possible by the bringing in of something unknown, something "out of the ordinary", but in a way whereby the overall outcome is well accounted for. In the overall genetic bio-progression, the "mutation-natural selection" process could be characterized as "calculated chance". In terms of human "behavior", that is to say in terms of the 'intellectual' and 'emotional' 'behavior' of human beings, this building in excess of what is already available is what is known as "risk".

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The Fundamental Biological Formula - Gather/Add/Build

One High Level Structure Of Human Operations - Gathering, Adding/Risking, Building - Goes Way Back, In The Billions Of Years.

This three part formula: gathering from what has come before; adding something highly calculated and clearly directed but in some way unknown and always personally costly - something "risky"; and the combining and building of something more advanced, has not changed in the leap from "genetic protean replication" in the earlier progression from species to species, to "intellectual protean replication" within our species.

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The Advancement Operation Itself Advanced.

Genetic Change "Outdid Itself", So To Speak. It Built Something That Operates At A Higher Logical Level Than Itself, Namely, Human Consciousness And Problem-Solving.

The Genetic Process Could Build Something That Operates At A Higher Logical Level Than Itself, Because The Whole Package Is Operating Under A Large Scale Bioecosystem - An Overall Structure - That Operates At A Higher Level Still.

The Basic, Billion Year Bioecosystemic Structure Of This Planet Operates At A Higher Logical Level Of Organization Than Any Of The Systems Created Within It. So Far Anyway. (Sometimes I think we're gaining on even the system that built us; slow down, that's what I say . . .)

These Formulations Are Within The Realm Of Science, And Mathematics; Straightforward, Cognitive, Same-For-Everyone Type Thinking; The Accuracy/Inaccuracy Framework; The "This-Bioecosystem- Operates-On-A-Singular-Reality-System" Framework.

There's No Religion, Or Belief, Or Philosophy Involved;
It's All Done With Concrete, Clear-Light-Of-Day, Five-Senses Type Science.

In short, the process of genetic advancement in earlier species has, in man, been superseded by the process of intellectual advancement - although the function of protean replication can continue to be served as before, albeit with the sort of risks that are in keeping with the new, higher level of development.

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Structure, Range, And Adaptation

Structure, Range, And Adaptation, In A Nutshell.

For the purposes of showing what one portion of 'hierarchical layering' - structural, range, and adaptive 'hierarchical layering' - within an organism looks like, we'll use the example of the 'structural characteristic' of crying in humans. Almost every baby cries. That is a uniform characteristic throughout the species. Each baby, however, has a different "range" of possible "behavior": one may have a "range of possibility" from A to D#; another from C to F; still another from B to G. Furthermore, each one finds a particular specific "adaptation" - each baby winds up crying in a specific, unique way - in this case, mainly at a specific note. One winds up crying at the note C, another at D, another at G. In the case of this particular range, the adaptation or 'note' that becomes 'uniquely characteristic' of a particular baby is the one that brings protection to the baby in his or her particular situation.

Again, there is what might be called 'uniform structure', present throughout the species, i.e. every baby, or almost every baby, cries; there are adaptive ranges, the same types of ranges but a different section of the range for each person, in this case, a range of 'notes'; and there are "points of adaptation", a specific sort of crying - consistent within a single person but highly variable from one person to another. Indeed, especially regarding the combinations of ranges within a person, each person is entirely unique, from one individual to the next.

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Same, Similar, Different

In Some Ways, We Are All The Same (Structure),
In Some Ways, Similar To One Another (Range),
And In Some Ways, Each Person Entirely Unique (Adaptation).

When discussing the "basic genetic behavioral structure" of Homo Sapiens, it is accurate to say that we all, or almost all, have the same 'structural characteristics', and in that way, we are all, or almost all, the same. As regards which portion of any of the at least thousands of low level ranges we are born with, it is accurate to say we are all similar but different. And as regards our adaptations - that is, what we become, what sort of person we are - it is accurate to say that we are each highly unique. The same structure. Similar but different parts of ranges to start with. And each individual's particular adaptation, that is, the sort of person each individual is, is highly unique.

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Escalation In Logical Levels Of Organization

In The Development Of Humans, There Was A Massive Advancement In Logical Levels Of Neuronal Organization - Not "More" In Quantity Of Attributes - But Rather, Higher And Higher Logical Levels Of Organization, Specifically.

It Was That Massive Escalation In Logical Levels Of Organization, Over Just Three Million Years Time, That Yielded Uniquely Human, High Level Operations.

More important for the purpose of this discussion, there are "hierarchies" of 'ranges' and 'adaptations'. That is to say, many specific adaptations form together as a new, higher level range, and a specific but different type of adaptation is formed at that higher level. In each human, the sheer number of these groupings, and especially the number of layers of hierarchy of mental and emotional organization within an individual, is far, far greater than in any other species. It is this sophisticated, 'many-layered' hierarchical arrangement within each individual that makes up high level "behaviors", i.e. passion, satisfaction, certainty, intelligence, imagination, honesty, decision, emotion, "brightness" of all sorts, 'depth', thought, judgment, and human enactment.

In our full paradigm we have identified nine specific individual 'inner conditions' that a person may be in, each one consisting of a certain type of thought, and a certain type of feeling. Furthermore, we have identified about a dozen very high level, specifically human, 'structural characteristics' - very high level ranges and adaptations - alongside a description of how they are formed and the function of the different human adaptations within the species-wide, high level characteristic ranges, as well as in the overall schema.

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Personality Ranges Are Set; Intelligence Ranges Are Flexible

Personality Ranges, That Is, Gathering-Protection Type Ranges Develop A "Set" Adaptation.

Intelligence And Skill Ranges, That is, Enacting-Caretaking Type Ranges Remain Flexible.

It must be noted that for people, although early in a person's life some ranges "close down" to the point of adaptation relatively permanently, with other ranges the adaptation can shift back and forth. Ranges that are used for gathering protection, a baby's main task, and for low level enactments, develop adaptations that are generally more "set" and are often called "personality". Adaptations within ranges that are used for adding - that is, adaptations that are used for 'risk' - and adaptations that are used for building or 'caretaking', which are an adult's main task, and for high level enactments generally are more flexible and changeable.

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The Definition Of Good And Bad

A Person Can Develop A Personally Unsurvivable Adaptation Or A Socially Unsurvivable Adaptation.

Good Health Can Be Specifically Defined As A Cognitively-Self-Evident-To-All, Clearly Defined Absolute, At All Logical Levels: Internal, Social, And Bioecosystemic.

It must be borne in mind that while specific adaptations vary widely from person to person and are unique to each specific individual, adaptations must also fall within a specifically survivable structure - that is, they must fit together in a certain way within an individual, and must further fit a certain way - in complementary fashion - among members of tribe and species. Although there is an overall healthy design for the various human characters, adaptation can fall outside that healthy structure. In that case, individual and group suffer terribly, and when present on the grand scale, extinction of species and bio-ecosystem lays ahead.

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Purpose Of Medical, Legal, And Religious Codes

All Medical, Legal, And Religious Codes Constitute Attempts To Define And Encourage Good Health, At Each Logical Level Of Personal And Social Organization.

Attempts at articulations delineating survivable and unsurvivable adaptations among humans have long been pursued. The laws, rules, national constitutions, and moral codes formulated in the course of setting up large societies were generally conceived so as to be based on the best approximation of enactments that would lead to the best health of the society at all levels.

At their inception, such codes were said to be designed to be, or were designed to be, formulations regarding just what sorts of common "behavior" would bring the healthiest and most survivable continuations for societies, individuals, and the species - given both the basic human structure, common to all, as well as the necessary adaptive differences.

Over the eons, various artists, scientists, and scholars alike have also been hard at work uncovering ever more clear and elementary truth regarding the bio-ecosystem in order to determine how various human horrors have come about, so such problems can be solved and "protean advancement" for all can ensue.

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The Question We Address

One Question That This Paradigm Answers Is: Precisely What Constitutes Good Health At Each Logical Level Of Internal, Social, And Bioecosystemic Organization .

The question we address is: "just what are the judgments, emotions, and enactments that the human central nervous system matrix was designed to harbor in terms of the best and deepest of feelings and the survival of individual, tribe, and species. Indeed, what does the 'overall behavioral system' of a healthy human organism consist of."

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Easy To Understand

Obscured For Ten Thousand Years, But, Still And All, Easy To Understand.

The connection between protean development in all biology and human 'inner states', judgments, and enactments is actually rather simple - many of the elements already well known. Although a clear, well organized, written elucidation of this connection between the overall general biological schema and "human enactment" schema is more than 7,000 years overdue, once seen, it is relatively easily understood by everyone.

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Emotion As Substance

Events And Conditions External To A Person, Emit Photons, Audio Waves, Kinetic Energy, Etc., Which, When They Enter The Person's Body, Are Translated Into Emotions, Feelings, This Or That Mental Organization, Thoughts, Specific Physical Effects, And So Forth.

Signals (Photons, Audio Waves, Etc.) From The External World, Of The Presence Of Protection, Are Ingested, Sorted, And Combined Within The Person, Where They Are Translated Into An 'Inner State' Of Security.

Signals (Photons, Audio Waves, Etc.) From The External World, Of The Presence Of Risk, Are Ingested, Sorted, And Combined Within The Person, Where They Are Translated Into An 'Inner State' Of Anxiety.

Signals (Photons, Audio Waves, Etc.) From The External World, Of The Presence Of Caretaking, Are Ingested, Sorted, And Combined Within The Person, Where They Are Translated Into An 'Inner State' Of Vitality.

The body of each individual Homo Sapiens perceives conditions in the world at large. Reports of these conditions - "signals" - enter the body through eyes, ears, skin, and so forth. The particular external condition being reported, in combination with internal processes - including internally controllable, conscious decisions - stimulates a particular gland to emit a particular chemical that in turn stimulates the central nervous system - and we 'feel' a certain way and think a certain specific category of thought - that is to say, we experience a certain 'inner state'.

In our species, Homo Sapiens, when we perceive the presence of something that already exists, something that has come before, something solid from which to build upon - that is, when a person perceives the presence of what we call "protection" - the central nervous system is signaled to produce 'feelings' or 'inner states' that, as a group, are generally called 'security' feelings.

In human beings, 'protection' comes in the form of the presence of and actions of protective individuals, in the form of useful ideas, in the form of what we call "internal gridwork" - which is built up over a life time - and in the form of physical things in the usual sense, such as shelter, nutrition, warmth, and tools.

Conditions calling for decisions as regards that which the organism adds independently, decisions that must be highly calculated and carefully directed but often daring and personally costly - conditions involving such things as pain, tension, passion, hope, heartbreak, courage, romance, fear, and so forth, conditions that we call "risk" - signal the central nervous system to produce one or more of several types of feelings of anxiety.

Finally, the enactment of actual creation or building, what we call "caretaking", constitutes signals that produce various feelings that can be grouped together as 'vitality'.

In Homo Sapiens, 'building', or 'caretaking', takes the form of developing more intellectual advancement among people, increasingly depthful passions and high level ideas, and more advanced physical things - all of which later serve as massive, higher level protection to be built upon later in the course of more risk and caretaking.

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Spectacular, Never-Before-Seen Advancements

The Very Highest Level, Billion-Year-Old Structures Of This Bioecosystem Have Not Changed; But The Specific Creatures And Operations Within It, Advance Spectacularly In Logical Levels Of Organization.

Never-Before-Seen Advancements In Logical Levels Of Organization, For Caretaking Purposes, Continue To Be Discovered And Created, And Will Forever. That Is The Way Of Things In This Particular Bioecosystem.

In short, the old "something present, something added, something built" formulation remains unchanged 'lo these past billion years, although the structures being built and the means of building them advance to higher levels in spectacular fashion.

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Advanced Mental And Emotional Organization Of Homo Sapiens Sapiens

The Mental And Emotional Organization Of Homo Sapiens Sapiens Specifically, Is Many Many Logical Levels Higher Than Any Other Creature.

This is the biological schema as manifested in the "behavior" of human beings. In earlier species, almost all enactments operated on a far more 'automatic' system. In man, and in man alone, an extremely high level thought, emotion, and judgment system developed, one in which each individual organism itself - each person - operates at almost as high a level as the patterns by which DNA itself operates, and as such each person has a certain degree of serious, conscious, controllable, and often decisive decision-making effect on the whole system.

Certain 'inner states' - that is 'emotions' and 'types of thought' - evolved as a kind of 'magnet' toward certain specific sorts of enactments. Other 'inner states' inform that something is amiss. The whole package - feelings, thoughts, guidance, decisions, judgment, enactment - was designed alongside a specific adaptive structure for their best operation and for the best chances for continued genetic replication - albeit in "protean development" form.

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Termonology For Describing Emotions And Thoughts As Substance

We Have Developed A Precise And Comprehensive Vocabulary For Describing Each Of Nine Specific 'Inner States'.

When we speak of an 'inner state', we are describing something that is a valuable guidance tool, an important nutrient, as well as a valuable thing in its own right. As such, we have found it important to choose appropriate sounding words to describe them and in our full paradigm, have done so. The nine 'inner states' that we have identified are termed by us, "tenors". In addition, the security and vitality 'inner states' or security and vitality 'tenors' are termed by us "tones". The term "anxiety" is left to stand in its commonly understood way.

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The Human Behavioral Matrix

Accurate, Relevant, And Comprehensive Definitions And Descriptions Of Each Member Of The Whole 'Inner States' Package Are Explained And Illustrated In Chapter Seven Of The Full Paradigm.

Thus, the human behavioral matrix runs on nine 'inner states', or nine 'tenors' - three different 'types' of security tones, three different 'types' of vitality tones, and three different 'types' of anxieties. The word "tenor" and the words "tone" and "anxiety" are all used in this way as nouns in this letter. However, until our full paradigm, with its more explicit definitions, delineations, illustrations, and diagrams becomes available, we find it more convenient to stick with the term "inner states".

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Simple Definition Of The Term Logical Levels

The System Of "Logical Levels" As Used Here, Is Precisely Defined And Illustrated In Chapter Two Of The Full Paradigm. But Hopefully, The Reader Can Surmise For Now, Just From Present Usage.

Furthermore, when the word 'level' is used here, it does not refer to 'amount'. As used here, the word 'level' refers to "type of thing" or "sort of thing" in a hierarchically organized arrangement. Although this idea of "level" is very specific, is of most crucial importance to Homo Sapiens and, with good explanation, is easy to grasp, lack of resources prevents us from including a comprehensive definition here. Again, this whole concept is clearly elucidated - mathematically, semantically, artistically, romantically, and anecdotally - in a finely illustrated early chapter of our full paradigm. Until such time as we have the resources to make that work available, the reader will have to surmise as best as possible from the usage herein contained.

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A Thought Plus An Emotion, Internal And In Transit, Defines The Word Tenor

When Conceptualizing A Particular 'Inner State', It Is Best Understood As A Type Of Thought Plus An Emotion Plus A Physical Condition Plus, Even, A Type Of External Event Or Circumstance, The Whole Package Together Being One Or Another Particular Inner State.

. A word or two must be said regarding the linkage between "thoughts" and "emotions". A particular 'inner state' or 'tenor' is manifested in a person as a particular type of thought process as well as a particular feeling or emotion.

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A New System Of Understanding

In Talking About Different Parts Of A Person's Operations, We Group Things Differently From The Groupings People Usually Use.

Thus, while we may characterize one particular "type" of thought and feeling - one particular 'inner state' - as "momentary" or "immediate", and another "type" of thought and feeling - another "type" of 'inner state' - as "long range" or "overall", we are not herein elucidating a distinction between 'thoughts' and 'feelings'. Again, these distinctions are sorted out, illustrated, and clarified in our full paradigm.

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Nutritional Substance And Guidance Substance

An 'Inner State' Such As Security Or Anxiety Or Vitality, Is A Substance That Evolved To Function As A Guidance Signal, And, Also, To Function As A Nutrient.

One Substance; One Particular 'Inner State' Has At Least Two, Very Different, Separate Functions.

Guidance Is One Use And Function Of A Particular Inner State, And Nutrition Is Another, Very Different Use And Function Of That Same Inner State.

As can be seen, 'inner states' or 'tenors' - emotions, thoughts, feelings - evolved as the "human type" of "guidance system" for the "gather-add-build protean replication method".

'Protection is being gathered' is signaled by 'feelings of security'; 'risk is being added' is signaled by 'feelings of anxiety'; and 'caretaking is being built' is signaled by 'feelings of vitality'.

However, much confusion has long resulted from the fact that 'inner states' - thoughts and feelings - are something else besides being guidance for the overall behavioral system. They are substance as well. That is to say, they have specific quantity which can be measured, visualized, and clearly identified.

Like any other substance they must be created in some sort of crucible; and they can be held intact, built upon, utilized, transformed, or destroyed. Furthermore, like physical objects they are constantly being transferred and can be exchanged, counterfeited, traded, stolen, or paid for. Finally they can be broken or sought after, they can be blinding, and they can be cherished.

'Inner states' or 'tenors' - that is, thoughts, emotions, feelings - are every bit as vital to life, literally, as food and oxygen. Without them, everything dies immediately. The human organism was designed to run on a certain balance of these things. When crucial 'inner states' are missing, or when a harmful balance is present, or when 'signals' - "inner states" - appear in the absence of the conditions they were designed to signal, then illness, horror, or death ensues.

This analogy regarding a comparison between 'intellectual-emotional' systems which run on 'inner states', and 'physiological systems' which run on things like food and oxygen, like all analogies, cannot be taken much further - but it is accurate as it stands, and, perhaps helpful in conceptualizing "inner states" as the tangible, quantifiable, physical substance that they are.

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Substance Functions Must Work Together

If A Particular Inner State Is Specifically, Artificially Created For Its Nutrient Value, Without Regard To Its Guidance Effect, Terrible Things Can Happen. The Whole System Can Go Haywire, Personally And Worldwide.

Because the major function of 'inner states' in the bio-ecosystem is as guidance for healthy, survivable development for the individual organism and the species at large, major disruptions and interruptions of the production of these 'guidance signals' - the 'inner state' substances - and especially disruptions in the conditions that they are designed to maintain, can, and usually do, lead to an unsurvivable situation.

The function of security is as a signal that protection is present and therefore is also a signal that caretaking is called for.

The function of vitality is as a signal that caretaking is being successfully performed and protection is called for.

The function of anxiety is as a signal that there is not enough protection to perform the present caretaking, "risk" is present in the situation, and in this way anxiety functions as a signal that carefully considered and risk-filled decisions and enactments are called for.

Later on, we will discuss what happens when these 'inner states' go off altogether, but at this point we will discuss the phenomenon of producing the flow of such 'inner states' in the absence of the conditions that they evolved as guidance for.

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Drugs

Alcohol And Heroin

Alcohol Informs A Person That Protection Is Present, When In Fact, Protection Is Nowhere To Be Found.

Alcohol, for example, turns on some 'medium' or 'high level' security 'inner states'. Heroin and related drugs seem to raise some of these same sort of security inner states (no doubt related to an important role of protection generally which is as a pain absorber) and heroin in particular, also lowers anxieties as well. This doubly inaccurate message to the central nervous system engenders an especially dangerous circumstance for all concerned. The central nervous system gets 'signals' that a circumstance - in this case, protection - is present when in fact it is nowhere to be found. 'Communications techniques' are also designed to counterfeit 'naturally evolved' 'signs' of protections - certain sorts of syntax and other 'audio clues' - and signal the presence of protection when protection itself is not present.

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Nutrition Bespeaks Security But Guidance Falsely Bespeaks The Presence Of Protection

If Protection Is Not Present, Alcohol Will Signal A Person's Body That Protection Is Present - Will Generate The Security Signal - Informing The Person That Protection Is Available. False Information Regarding The Availability Of Protection. The Person's Internal Body Signals Says They're Covered; The World Says They're Not. Look Out

Both the fact that protection in the world generally is not being projected in a survivable direction, and the fact that the individual is being 'pumped' with the 'guidance signals' but without the conditions - actual protection - that these 'inner states' (i.e. high level security or low level anxiety, etc.) were designed to be signals for, leads to an extremely pain-producing situation on the small scale, and extinction on the large scale.

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Amphetamines Create Anxiety But The Function/Purpose Is Not Present

Amphetamines Engender Risk Signals - Anxiety Nutrients And Anxiety Guidance Signals - Without Reference To The Actual Life Circumstance Of The Person.

"Booster" drugs - 'amphetamines' and others - raise anxieties irrespective of the conditions that such anxieties were designed to be 'signals' for. As such, the anxiety inner states that are 'stimulated' by such drugs are generally likely to be "spun-out" in a dangerous, harmful, or destructive way, alongside all of the costs and ofttimes permanent losses of such expenditure.

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Cocaine Presents Vitality Without The Caretaking Guidance

As Specifically Arranged By Nature, The Inner State Called Vitality Is The Major Nutrient That Everyone Wants Most. Vitality Is The Big One.

Well, I Can't Help But Mention . . . I'm Afraid Dr. Freud Missed The Boat On That One - As It Turns Out, It's Not Nice To Lie About Children, And Therein Encourage Their Ongoing Rape For A Century To Come, Not Nice At All . . . Not To Mention, Lying About What You Know Altogether, Just Happens To Be Murder On Science . . . Bad Karma All Around, So To Speak.

As Such, Sigmund Missed The Boat Entirely. It's Not Security That People Want Most, No No, And It's Not Anxiety Either. It's Vitality That Everyone Wants, First And Foremost. Caretaking, High And Low: Vitality. Surprise! The Communist Emotion. (No Wonder Freud Missed It.) Caretaking, Vitality, "The Meaning Of Life", As They Say. Snort Up Or Jog Up That Caretaking Feeling Instead Of, Instead Of, Instead Of, Instead Of, Living That Caretaking Life; That's The Big Killer. One Of The Several Infamous "Bourgeois Diseases".

Probably the most famous means of producing some medium level vitality tenors without enacting the conditions that they were designed to be signals for (namely principled caretaking), are cocaine and exercise such as 'jogging'. When one's caretaking goes generally unprotected, is brutalized, or is destroyed, and when one decides to accept - indeed, maintain and promote - such a life generally, where will the vitality that it takes to get through a demanding day come from. Alongside 'vacuuming' such 'inner states' from below, jogging and cocaine, it seems, are the 'solution' for a vitality thirsty population whose principled caretaking has been beaten and ridiculed out of existence, and who have made decisions to maintain and perpetuate that circumstance.

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External Conditions, Nutrition, Guidance, Are A Unified Three-Part System

As Per The Evolutionary Design, The External Conditions Are Supposed To Match Up With The Internal Guidance Signals, And Also Match Up With The Generated Emotional Nutrients, And The Generated Idea Nutrients, And The Generated Bodily Nutrients.

The Circumstances, The Guidance, The Nutrients, Are Supposed To All Line Up Together.

What's Going On In The World, What That Circumstance Does To A Person's Guidance Systems, And What It Does For Their Strength And Abilities - It's All Supposed To Match, In Parallel Fashion.

It can be seen that while emotions, thoughts, and feelings are the bio-ecosystem's way of guiding the enactment of our species, it is the conditions that produce such emotions - the conditions that were designed by "evolution" or "creation" to be present alongside such emotions - that actually maintain and build life. The emotions evolved so as to engender healthy ongoing survival and "protean replication" - in man's case, "intellectual protean replication".

The conditions that produce security - that is, principled caretaking by above persons; the conditions that produce and mitigate anxieties - that is, the dangers present in a situation and the carefully thought out, clearly directed, and always costly risk that a person must enact when "risk" is presented in their situation; and the enactments that produce vitality - that is, one's own principled caretaking, are the conditions that the bio-ecosystem lives on.

Producing the 'guidance signals' - the 'inner states' or 'tenors' - without producing the conditions of nature that they were designed to be guidance for, obviously leads directly to extinction. The whole subject of 'mind altering' drug use - their sometimes usefulness and benefits, and their more often "fatal-for-all-concerned" dangers - is elucidated in some detail in our full paradigm.

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Decisions

The All-Important, Internally Controllable Decision Process

The All Important, Internal Decision Process In Each Person, Involves Factors That Come In From Outside The Mostly Automatic Electro-Neural and Chemical Systems.

The Higher The Logical Level Of Mental Organization, The More Importantly, Internally Controllable Decisions Figure In.

Every Human Operates At Approximately The Same Logical Level As Every Other Human, And Many Many Logical Levels Above Any Other Animal. Unlike Any Other Creature, In Humans, Internally Controllable, Conscious Decisions, 'Previously-Undetermined-One-Way- Or-The-Other' Type Decisions, Using 'Out Of Time' And 'Out Of The Blue' Type Factors, Are A Decisive Key Within The System.

In This Particular Bioecosystem In Which We Live, The One At This Star, The Past Is Set; The Future Is Not Set, Not Yet Determined; Among Humans, "Could-Go-Either-Way" Type Decisions Figure In Heavily. Make-Or-Break.

While our work describes, defines, explains, and details many things that are necessary to the formulation of judgments and actions that will lead to a good outcome, it must always be borne in mind that conscious internally controllable decision-making by an individual, and principled, often risky enactments are usually - perhaps always - the decisive factor in whether things go well or go terribly for human beings. But it must also be borne in mind that there are circumstances created outside an individual - especially conditions engendered by above parties - that make it more likely or less likely that particular decisions will be made. Responsibility is everywhere.

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People Want A Certain Balance Of Inner States, Not One Or The Other

What Any Person Wants, Up And Down The Logical Levels Of Want, Is Easily, Accurately, Precisely, And Quantifiably Definable.

Although the substances that we are identifying as 'inner states' are as vital to the life of human beings as food and oxygen in that without them a person dies immediately, we have found that people find them to be even more vital. It is our experience that people - all people - are more interested in maintaining certain balances of these 'inner state' substances - tones and anxieties - while they are alive than they are interested in even prolonging their own, individual life. The ridiculous claim is sometimes made that people are more interested in staying alive first, and simply increasing their own supply of security second - these two things above and beyond anything else. Not only does this make no sense biologically speaking, but as a practical matter, no one operates this way - it is a certain specific sort of combination of various types of vitality, anxiety, and security that people strive to obtain and maintain while they are alive, first and foremost, that constitutes virtually every person's primary goal. Considerations of amounts of each of these substances must be made in order for any discussion regarding what a person "wants", to usefully proceed.

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Quantification/Configuration/Logical Levels

Accurate, in context, comprehensive measuring scales for quantifying inner states are required. This can Only be done in the full context of this paradigm; 'Abuse it and lose it'.

What's known as the Capitalist "Market System" Of Public Trade, Identifies Just Two "Inner State" Substances, And Keeps The Other Seven Cloaked, And Invisible To Public Quantification. 88% Of The Substance Of What Is Allegedly Being 'Traded', But Is In Fact Being Stolen, Is Never Even Mentioned In The Alleged "Market Economy" Equations.

Too Many Primary Digits Are Missing From The Capitalist Equations. "They're Not Playing With A Full Deck", So To Speak. Although I Never Read Karl Marx's Work, As Best I Understand It, It Always Seemed To Me That He Got It Right, But, His Papers Probably Should Have Been Updated With Numbers A Long Time Ago. As Soon As The Science Of Logical Levels, Molecular Physics, Separation Theory, Etc. Became Available, Specific Numbers Should Have Been (Or Should Be) Assigned For The Various 'Energies' Expended And Produced.

I Presume That Is The Direction In Which Marx's Work Should Have Been Taken. But, Of Course, The Numbers Would Have To Be Accurate, Relevant, And Most Important, Comprehensive.

Accurate To Singular Reality, Of Course. As Best I Can Tell, According To The Greatest Scientists, Like Marx, Darwin, Einstein, In The Grand Scheme, Nature Covers The Rest.

The Point Is When People Can Clearly See The Actual Value, Creation, Transfer, Use, And Destruction, Of The Things They Actually Live For And Live On, Can See The Presence Of The Substances Here Referred To As "Inner States", When People Can Clearly And Accurately And Comprehensively See It, As An Automatic Thing That Anyone Easily Takes Into Account; That Everyone Easily Assesses In The Blink Of An Eye, A Skill Routinely Learned In A Week In The Fourth Grade;

At That Time, The 95% Problem That Humans Have Faced These Past Ten Millennia, The "Human-Thwarting-Human" Problem, Will Finally Have Been Solved, And Solved For All Time.

Unfortunately, to date only one of these nine 'inner state' substances has been quantified in a generally accepted counting system: what we refer to as 'medium level security', and some - but not all - of the conditions that it takes to produce it, has long been measured by various 'monetary systems'. Obviously, the counting and value-measuring system generally used - money - to quantify some (but not all) of the protections that 'signal' the raising and lowering of medium level security, and to some degree anxiety, is quite useful, but inadequate, in and of itself, as a measuring system for all the other things that create 'inner states'.

Any quantification system that displayed just how much of which sort of 'inner state' 'signals' (how much of the various types of protection conditions, risk enactments, and caretaking enactments that stimulate the various 'inner states') were being created or exchanged would have to include, at the least, two or three other types of measuring scales as well.

A rough sense of the difference involved might be illustrated in the following way: one unit of a high level 'inner state' substance might be a partial equivalent of one hundred units of medium level 'inner state' substance - as well as a partial equivalent of ten thousand units of low level 'inner state'. However, a singular quantification scale would not be adequate since a different 'level' of 'inner state' is also a different 'type' or sort of 'inner state' altogether. Different 'types' of scales are needed.

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People want and need a certain balance of inner states;
a little more vitality/caretaking projected towards below
than the security/protection received from above;
the difference being made up of internal anxiety/risk from within.

Bear in mind, this bioecosystem does not work on a "mass/arithmetic" system;
it works on a "configuration/logical-levels" system.
When things are arranged according to nature's schema,
you always wind up with more than you started with.

Bear in mind that this bioecosystem does Not work on a system consisting of 'mass' or 'matter'. Matter and energy comes and goes, etherial stuff, small, uniform, and of no great consequence, if it even exists at all; but the configurations, the-way-those-atoms-are-organized, that is what constitutes substance, that's what is solid, concrete subtance - what we see, what we touch, what we feel, what we think.

This bioecosystem operates on a configuration system - a block of wood, an idea, a face, a song, a slab of steel, a beam of light, a heartfelt chuckle - we don't see, or hear, or taste, or touch matter, we see, hear, smell, taste, and touch, configuration - and that, lasts essentially, forever.

Be it a configuration of mitochondria, that's lasted a billion years, or a basket configuration that's lasted a hundred thousand, or a word for a tree that's lasted one thousand, or the love that a homo habilis had for her partner, passed down for a hundred thousand generations and still very much with us to this very day, in all cases, according to the structure of this particular bioecosystem, the one at this particular star, it is the configurations that are solid, that are physical, that we weigh, that we touch, that we notice, that we live on.

In nature, when things are working as they should, when things are working well, when nature is operating as it usually does, good things last forever. And be it food, shelter, clothing, artwork, music, ideas, passions, whatever, maintaining the old, building on the old, and building brand new, goes on ENDLESSLY!

There is nothing spiritual, or religious, or esoteric about it. This is all in the realm of Science. Hard, cold, mathematical, five-senses, clear-light-of-day, provable/disprovable, cognitive, rational, fully conscious, quantifiable, critical, Science. In the spirit and letter of the term science, by all, strict, traditional definitions of the word.

And, certainly from at least the moment that they read these words, every scientist on this planet knows it, despite whatever crackpot gibberish they are paid by Rockefeller, Ford, Hitler, DuPont, Standard Oil, and all others of that ilk to utter. All the human problems on this planet, six billion, ten billion, however many persons wide, in full health and vitality, NO TRICKS, can be solved, for everyone.

As it turns out, "Dust To Dust" is NOT the way of things on this planet;
"Dust To Ever Increasing Value" is the rule by which this bioecosystem operates.

What A Person Wants, Is Most Usefully Understood As A Particular Balance And Pattern Of All Nine Different 'Inner State' Substances Operating In A System, Rather Than One Substance Or The Other.

Furthermore we would not suggest that any one inner state, by itself, is more or less 'valuable' than any other inner state. Each sort of inner state is an entirely different sort of thing and it is a certain balance of all nine and the conditions that the ecosystem evolved to produce them that is required.

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The 120,000 Word "Paradigm: Volume One" Contains The Details And Illustrations For The Materials Summarized Here.

Again, The 15,000 Word, 20 Illustration Paradigm Chapter - "Chapter Seven: Tenors", Comprehensively And Precisely Defines Each Specific Inner State In The Nine Part Matrix.

Needless to say, in our full paradigm, we have very specifically identified, diagrammed, and illustrated each of nine 'inner states' or 'tenors', including a clear, finely delineated description of each, alongside the ontogeny of the human 'gridwork' that enables their production; those specific circumstances which engender each of them; a variety of mechanisms for the transfer of inner states from one person to the next; and the function of each in the bio-schema.

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Security, Anxiety, Vitality, As Concrete, Transferable Substances

The Human Voice Is, By Far, The Most Powerful Force On Earth; Exchange Of Inner States Exerts Vastly Greater Power, Value, And Influence Than Exchange Of Objects

Among Humans, By Far The Busiest Single Channel For The Transfer Of Inner States From One Person To Another Is The "Brain-to-VocalChord-to-AudioWave- to-Ear-to-Brain" "Truck Route"; Speaking And Listening, The Highway 101, So To Speak, Of Inner State Traffic. 'The Big One' Regarding Inner State Transfer Routes Between People.

It must be noted that, in terms of the 'inner states' that human beings run on and the conditions required to produce them, while "physical objects" account for somewhere in the area of five to fifteen percent of what is exchanged between people, and while there are several other important means of exchange, the vast majority of 'inner states' that are transferred between people generally, pass not through the hands but rather through the vocal cords. That is the primary means of exchange.

One cannot utter a sound within earshot of another person without taking something from them or giving something to them, and the same goes for hearing something spoken by another person. As an immediate means of exchange (although the effects are very long term) of 'inner states' from one person to the next, and the conditions that produce those 'inner states', there is no force as powerful as the human voice, more particularly, the spoken word. For sheer volume in the course of almost everyone's emotions, intelligence, and life, the spoken word is in a league of its own.

In this context, we must mention that as regards that which builds inner states (rather than the process by which they are transferred) - reading, writing, physically constructing something, and the various, many forms of "work" are the most important creators and crystallizers of the conditions that produce inner states.

But the spoken word is the primary means of transfer and exchange from one person to another.

Again, speaking can denote either the taking or giving of inner states. Hearing can also denote either the taking or giving of inner states, from one person to the next. The matter of whether a statement is truthful or is a lie is obviously a major key to the determination of whether it is the teller who is giving or receiving or the listener who is giving or receiving, and what sort of inner state is given or is received. This sort of dynamic will be clarified in detail in a later section.

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Most inner states that a person holds are created outside of themselves. When this is mentioned to professionals, they tend to speak untruthfully about what they understand.

A Person Might Find It Difficult To Conceptualize An "Inner State", A "Tone", "Security", "Vitality", Or An "Anxiety", As A Specific, Definable, Quantifiable Substance. But It's Not All That Difficult To Conceptualize, Not That Hard At All.

As Easy, Certainly, As Defining A Cubic Foot Of Air, Or A Gram Of Protein, Wave For Wave And Molecule For Molecule. Once Pointed Out, It Becomes Clear that "Inner States" Are As Definable, As Tangible, As Quantifiable, And As Much Physical Substance As Air And Protein, Even Though Inner States Too, Like Air And Protein, Are Invisible To The Naked Eye.

It may be a bit unfamiliar for some readers to conceptualize 'thoughts', 'feelings', 'emotions' - that is, 'inner states' - as substances that are created by a process much like any other sort of 'work' and created, in large part, by some other individual, outside the particular individual who is 'holding', transforming, or spending them. Furthermore, the transfer of these substances from one person to the next - through principled exchange, theft, or whatever - may also be a phenomenon that some readers have not previously noticed. In our experience however, when such phenomena are pointed out to any of the scores of professional people with whom we've met, they quickly begin to lie about what they understand and, in a somewhat frenzied state, frantically slam the door, forcefully breaking off all further contact with us.

We have concluded that once pointed out, accompanied by even the most rudimentary explanations, virtually everyone understands exactly what we are talking about, although people who have previously noticed this phenomenon, especially 'professional people' in the current situation, seem sociopathically compelled to lie about what they understand.

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The Existence Of And The Importance Of Inner States As Substance Is Self-Evident To Anyone And Everyone

"Self-Evidently-True" Is Herein Defined In The Following Way:

If A Person Must Deliberately And Consciously Misreport Their Understanding Of Something In Order To Claim To Disbelieve It, Then The Fact Of That Something Is Self-Evidently True To The Person.

If A Person Has To Deliberately And Consciously Lie About What They Think In Order To Say They Disagree, Then The Accuracy Of The Matter In Question Is Self-Evident To Them.

As Soon As The Subject Of The Tangibility Of 'Inner States' Is Broached, All Professional Persons Queried Over Fifteen Years Time And To This Very Day, Instantly Change The Subject To A Rapturous Extolling Of The Joys And Inevitabilities Of Dishonesty.

It is for this reason that we place proof of the existence of feelings as creatable, identifiable, quantifiable, transferable, destroyable, valuable (life and death) substance in the "self-evident" category.

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Health And Harm Clearly Defined

Patterns Of Inner States Exchange Show Healthy And Unhealthy Relationships.

The Inner States Exchange Can Be Clearly And Accurately Seen By Anyone, And The Absolute Distinction Between Health And Harm Can Be Easily, Automatically, Accurately, And Universally Discerned.

Through use of these sorts of understandings, it can be seen that one can articulate a clear structure for the sorts of creation and transfer of these substances - the various types or 'levels' of security, anxiety, and vitality and the conditions that produce them - that will constitute the healthiest, most passionate, most depthful, most satisfying, and most survivable course for each individual human being, for the entire species, and indeed, for all biology and beyond.

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Healthy Exchange Results From Tones Going Down Meeting Anxiety Which Is Coming Up.

Protection And Caretaking Substances - Security And Vitality Substances - Are Supposed To Move Mainly Down The Hierarchies Of Influence; While Risk, Pain, Unsolved Problems Causing Damage To Humans, That Is, The Anxiety And Risk Substances, Are Supposed To Move Mainly Up The Hierarchies Of Influence.

Protection And Caretaking Moving Mostly Downwards In The Hierarchies; Risk And Pain Moving Mostly Upwards -

The Long-Fabled "Way Things Are Supposed To Be". Communism Defined, Par Excellance.

Protection And Caretaking Moving Mostly Downwards In The Hierarchies; Risk And Pain Moving Mostly Upwards -

The Legendary "Garden Of Eden" Of Evolutionary Days, And Of Most Of Our History As Homo Sapiens Sapiens.

To be even more specific, our work has shown, to an extremely elementary degree of self-evidence, that in order for there to be continuing survival, individuals must transform security into vitality (that is, protection received must be transformed into caretaking enacted), and vitality and caretaking must, in the main, be projected in a hierarchically downward direction, while anxiety - risk - must move in a hierarchically upward direction, to be absorbed by those above, combined by them with vitality and transformed into overall, more advanced solution.

In short, when security and vitality moving down the hierarchy meet anxiety moving up the hierarchy, a fundamental, billion year old biological process - protean replication - is in the works, albeit amidst great pain and risk.

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A Person Receives Security (Protection) From Above,
Converts It Into Vitality,
Absorbs Pain And Risk (Anxiety) From Below,

Internally Combines the Vitality Plus Anxiety Into An Internal Mixture,
And Uses That Mixture To Enact Caretaking.

When Risk Is Too High, The Excess Is Passed Upwards,
To Be Solved By Those Yet Further Up The Hierarchy.

All Very Easy For Anyone To Understand.

One's Protection (Security) Comes From Above Parties, From The World At Large, And From What Has Come Before;

One's Caretaking (Vitality) Is Projected To Below Parties, To The World At Large, And To Building The Future;

And Risk (Anxiety) Allows One To Create - To Caretake - A Bit More Than Protection Received.

Right Or Wrong, It's Actually A Very Precise And Easy-To-Understand Formula. Not Much To It. Sort Of Like E=MC2. . . . Well, Then Again, Einstein Got It Down To Five Words, And Copernicus Down To Six (The Earth Goes Around The Sun); That's Hard To Match . . .

The schema of transfer of 'inner state' substances includes, for example, the following: A person garners their security through some protection-seeking towards above parties and from protective things that have already been created. In the main, however, protection received - that is, security experienced - is the result of some sort of caretaking a person is receiving from above parties at the initiative of those above parties.

Drawing on that store of security (protection) and converting it into vitality and combining it with anxiety (pain and risk) absorbed from below, the person themself enacts principled caretaking. Such caretaking is directed towards below parties and towards creating things that will later serve as protection.

When there is not enough protection available to accomplish the caretaking 'mission', anxieties rise, a signal that 'something added' is called for, namely, carefully thought out, clearly directed, and always personally costly 'risk'.

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On Handling Power

Healthy Transfer Means Pain Goes Mostly Up The Hierarchy.
People Are Given And Are Maintained In Higher Positions ONLY Because They Can And Do Absorb Pain And Turn It Into Healing, Building, And Solution.

The Most Important Criteria For Assigning A Person To A Higher Or Lower Position In Any Influential Hierarchy Is As Follows:

If They Have A Good Ability To Absorb High Logical Levels Of Pain And Difficulty From Below Parties, And An Excellent Ability To Convert Those Inner States Into Accurate, Work Out Well All Around Solutions, Then They Should Rise To Ever More Powerful Positions Of Influence, With All Of The Massive Protections, The Tools, And Anything, Anything Else They Need.

That, Of Course, Is Within The Framework Of Each Member Of The Population Having An Automatic - And Accurate - Understanding Of Just What Constitutes Value To Life, At All Logical Levels; Within The Framework Of People Being Intelligent, And The System Being Accurately Understood By All.

Thus, adaptable, survivable, depthful, health-producing hierarchical relations, the sort that fits the original, excellent 'protean replication' design that biology - and man - have long run on, involves stress, anxiety, and pain moving up the societal hierarchy until it reaches a party who can, because of their greater protection, and their ability to maintain a good deal of high intensity, high level anxiety, absorb it and transform it into solution.

Obviously, the only health producing, life-advancing, and survivable criteria for assigning protection to an individual, and therefore assigning to them a higher place in any hierarchy, is the person's ability to spend their security by converting it into vitality, absorbing pain and stress from below, and combining it all into more advanced solution for everyone and for all time.

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Low Ability To Absorb Pain Goes Along With A Low Position In The Hierarchy.

If A Person Would Prefer To Mainly Draw Protection And Vitality Upwards From Those Weaker Than Themself, And Pass It On To Those Above, Or Simply Consume It, And Slam Pain Down The Hierarchies - All Backwards From The Healthy Pattern - Then That Person Should Probably Have Substantially Less Influence Over Public Policy.

Conversely, a low ability, or an inability to convert security into vitality, that is, protection into caretaking, and a low ability or an inability to combine it with anxiety and risk absorbed from below, naturally goes along with a very low place in a hierarchy.

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The Personal, Or Rather, The Interactive, Certainly Is Political

Definition Of Principled Relations.

Protection And Caretaking Moving Mostly Downwards In A Hierarchy; Anxiety Moving Mostly Upwards: The Absolute Definition Of "Principled Hierarchical Relations."

Also, The Absolute Definition Of Communism.

This, in a nutshell, is what we call "principled hierarchical relations".

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Unprincipled Relations Is Defined As Tones Mostly Going Up While Pain Mostly Goes Down. Not A Survivable Pattern.

Protection And Caretaking Moving Mostly Upwards In A Hierarchy; Anxiety Moving Mostly Downwards: The Absolute Definition Of "Unprincipled Hierarchical Relations."

Also, The Absolute Definition Of Nazism.

'Unprincipled hierarchical relations', involve, in the majority, "delivering up" in a hierarchy the security and vitality substances, while projecting 'downwards' anxiety, stress, and pain. When this sort of transfer of substances is in the majority, the metaphor "cannibalization" is appropriate, and species, tribe, and individual - not to mention the gene patterns' own possibilities for survival, advancement, and therefore replication - plummets towards extinction.

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Those Who Do Not Wish To Absorb Pain Must Reside In The Lowest Places In The Hierarchy.

"The Last Shall Be First And The First Shall Be Last . . ."

Obviously, those who decide that the absorption from less protected parties, under any circumstances, of anxiety, pain, or stress is some sort of "perverse" and personally unwanted "masochism" must be receiving of the least protection, and reside at the lower reaches of the hierarchy, if anyone is to survive.

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