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On the new material and NIH ("Not Invented Here")

Academic 'thought' of any kind is either institutionalized by fact of at least language alone or it's not academic thought at all. Typically, naturally and traditionally then, 'new and original' such thought actually institutionalizes in the mind as it 'evolves' and develops out of that pre-existing institutionalized 'thought'. The pecularity of this is that once become so personally institutionalized -integral one's persona, so to speak, the academic principal is not really in position (loathe? -'the human condition'?) to 'alter' either 'thought' or persona -ergo Not Invented Here (NIH) and 'deafness' to anything perhaps otherwise. Dirigiste Heurism too, then, is evolved and developed out of 'institutionalized knowledge', but it is that of state-of-the-art science -and solidly rooted there too.

On integrity of substance and learning

If 'integrity of substance and learning' is not addressed during formative years, it tends to become reinforced and resident as 'mere opinion' without such integrity as one grows up. It is a matter, simply, of the material of routine education centering on the tools of society and civilization and not on that 'material and its integrity'. Because of this, people enter society with religious, ethnic and 'political' opinions modified largely by personal circumstance -opinions of tenuous and essentially unimportant substance in quotidian life. Should one go on to higher education in the soft sciences of such material however -law, politics, economics et cetera, that tenuous integrity becomes part of the institutionalized opinion that has so far served to determine the nature and course of society and civilization -ergo 'the human condition'.

On evolution and melioration of human condition

Other mutation and factors aside, our evolution is primarily one of aristocratization -hominids superceding each other thru increasing deliberative capability. If we also (and properly) include reproduction however, then it is that same (advancing knowledge facilitation), but with 'replenishing injections of neonate ignorance'. The only melioration then, is deliberation out of the 'wonderments, imponderables and physically-unanswerable's (god and other spirit beliefs for example) that youth ignorantly bumbles into or invents on its own, and out of ministering to 'natural human rights and freedoms' and other such noumenalisms that, susceptible, youth innocently inherits. To understand this is to be confronted by 'an intrinsically hierarchic progression (mankind) heuristically advancing its nature and constitution (human-being) while at the same time `suffering its own re-evolution'.

On congregational sexuality

CONGREGATIONAL SEXUALITY is a primary property of human evolution, two people 'communing', even homosexual and allowing for no reproduction otherwise, generally 'superceding' two non-communing in one way or another. A genetic property we identify with anthropoids in general, congregational sexuality(*1) is critically underrated as the basis of and permeating everything we identify with humanity: directly or indirectly, 'the human phenomenon and all things human' are consequent, sustaining or promotional of some aspect of sexual expression.

Thruout the world however, sexual expression today is 'little better than of primitive communion': despite civilizational advances -science and technology greatly transforming and influencing that expression, the operations of neither gender reflect a relatively coherent understanding and assimilation of the physiology of either sex and its roles in what is essentially hominid-being sexual expression (Feminism, Male Sex, Evolution and Jail). The thesis here is that insofar as that expression continues to manifest the more or less mechanical mental and physical cast of 'primitive-vertebrate-pecking-order', it will continue to be a major source of 'noise as human condition': however seemingly removed from sex or 'intellectually esoteric', there is no aspect of 'the human phenomenon and things human' that does not reflect evolutional progression in 'sex, cerebration, warm-blooded pecking-order and (the) deliberative capability (next) that makes this statement possible.

On deliberative capability

 DELIBERATIVE CAPABILITY -'registering and assimilating various stimuli into increasingly complex, hierarchic cogitation', is a property we typically associate with humans and certain primates. Perhaps best identified with our relatively open-ended capacity for mentation and, eventually, reification -'making the abstract concrete', it is this property that distinguishes us by our 'humanity and generation of things human' thru which we are able, in effect, to 'consider these such items and their consequences and implications'(*3). It is in this respect -humans having this capability, that we 'might do better' to advantage ourselves of information we have regarding the physicality of 'how we are constituted' and 'how we have come to be this way': that the existence of any and every organism has come about solely thru the evolution of 'a form more primitive than itself', a consequence of the solely physical properties, circumstances and juxtapositions of matter:

1 - Deliberative capability is the purely physical and only mechanism thru which 'the human phenomenon and things human' come to exist -not 'special insight', nor 'soul', nor 'creative spirit' nor something 'extra-hominid'. Solely 'the nature of matter', we are literally (and physically) 'evolved out of and born into ignorance' -everything evolving out of ignorance alone except (obviously) as influenced by and influencing other -but still purely physical, phenomena and factors likewise assimilated and deliberated out of ignorance.

2 - There is no way for an organism to exist other than experientially, physically registering 'statistically qualifiable, evolutionally significant operation of, by and upon physical-sensation-and-phenomenon'. It is the nature of this still-evolving property consequently, that-

(a) We are destined to continue discovering and 'correcting' misinformation -'The machine goes by itself'(*4) and

(b) It is to our 'benefit' to promote that process.

It is inherent of deliberative capability that the mass of new material to be assimilated out of advancing hard science and mathematics increases with time. Because of organism physiological limitations however (The Unemployability Conjecture), practical assimilation naturally lags intellectual hierarchically top-down, thus the effect of this assimilation may eventually result in a significantly different kind of socio/civilizational organization than thus-far known, one perhaps not unlike that of ant or bee colony operational structures and interdependencies -one in which, altho we may understand 'some natural right and freedom of the individual to do his own thing' more or less independently of the system (occupation, life-style-and-quality et cetera), we may also have to 'deliberate what one must do for the organism-whole' (heuristically) regardless of how he feels about it personally. -Nor is this an appeal to socialism, communism or any other 'ism'.

On idle-mindness

'IDLE-MINDNESS' - There is nothing 'naturally ready-and-present' to occupy 'the unoccupied mind' other than what experience has caused, precipitated or -critically, what someone-or-society may have 'deliberated' to be registrable and registered there. As essential antithesis of 'deliberate' (or even inadvertently 'captive') mental occupation, the 'idle-mind state' is the state of potential occupation 'out' of which deliberative capability operates in the generation of 'knowledge'. It is thus, the physicality of circumstance, situation and the 'idle-mind-state' in particular and alone that underlie the 'freedom of choice' of one's persona and out of which, consequently, 'life-style-and-quality' and the culture of a people evolve. The 'idle-mind state' in this respect, goes unappreciated for the fact of its transiency -that it is occupied immediately by anything from 'physiologically internal' to whatever situation circumstance happens to present -'naturally, deliberately and/or serendipitously' -even to graffiti and 'mindless vandalism'.

[Anyone doubting the existence of 'idle-mind time' and 'idle-mind occupation' need look no further than Dear Abby or Ann Landers for example -for the complaints of wives about retired husbands who, 'having nothing better to do', follow them around the kitchen, the laundry and anywhere else either babbling or telling them how to do their work. Be that what it be, one might also consider the role this property plays in economics today and our use of the resource/environment -GameBoy playing, cell-phone chatting, flicking-on the TV ('nothing better to do'), The Scorpion King? -see 'Business' and 'Making money'.]

What occupation there is, 'genetically speaking', is only whatever 'indefinable primitive idiomatics' there are that attach basic evolution of 'a sexually congregational organism of deliberative capability' -neonate sucking, hand-to-mouth motions, certain imprintings and, growingly, physiological sensitivities and capabilities registering experience thru genetic disposition -learning mechanisms and eventually evolving companionship and sex. What occupation ultimately depends upon then (learning, knowledge), is its physiologically material constitution and the 'dimensions, mass and quality of experience entered and entering that constitution', the antithesis of which is sensory deprivation. -It is the 'how' and 'by what' of that occupation that is a major factor in the human condition. Idle-mind-occupation, consequently, goes unappreciated for how it plays into 'the nature and constitution of human-being'; present-day life-style-and-quality, persona and culture, consequently, continue to be based largely upon 'hominid-being survival-of-the-fittest' pecking-order(*5).

[Primitive and early man had little 'idle-mind time', taken-up as all time was either by just trying to stay alive or recovering from that -largely a matter of where one stood in 'the pecking-order of things'. But one has only to observe someone with 'nothing to do' -clinically, to understand the importance of 'meritable experience' in life-style-and-quality. In the absence of viability-related or motivating circumstances, the idle mind is occupied either 'best as can out of experience' or it defaults: the 'financially able to indulge themselves' do so, for example, and the destitute or unemployable beg, steal, vandalize, drink or drug-out. It remains the 'how' and 'by what' of that occupation that is a major factor in the human condition.]

The thesis here is that it is not true that we 'know' 'how' 'what kind' of 'idle-mind occupation' should or can play into 'life-style-and-quality and what the system can bear' -except deliberatively and heuristically. In terms of such an organism and its increasingly complex society, it is rather 'a poverty of progressive, communal experience' that leads to 'an impoverished communal presence and response', and it is the 'human-organism-advancing occupation' of this idle-mind state by physically experiential knowledge (-there is no other) that determines the meaning and content of 'hominid-being', 'the human condition' and 'the nature and constitution of human-being'.

On idiomatics

THE IDIOMATICS is 'the body of generalized beliefs, thought processes and modes of confrontation and expression variously common to most peoples of the world'; essentially 'what it is the nature of things to be' (especially men and women: 'You can't change human nature') or 'what they ought to be' -a kind of hominid-being ethos. It includes for example, both the 'inner rights' of 'looking good' and 'having fun' and the outer but universal interrelationships and expressions of 'nurturing (soft) womanhood', 'provident (strong) manhood' and the 'propriety of having children', of 'belonging' and the 'primacy of one's kind and ways' (-expressions of shame and insult -'saving face', machismo, 'gay pride', 'self esteem' etc), of practices in 'powers unknowable to us' (religion of any form) and of various work and play criteria and ethics -'merit', 'worth', 'ownership' et cetera. (See Organizational Aspects of 'The Human Phenomenon and Things Human' and Roget's Thesaurus and 'The System of Human Experience').

What the idiomatics 'do', in effect, is constitute a vocabulary and structure -society and government, for manipulating 'daily-essential situation and circumstance'. Little more than 'communicational glue', they inherently lag 'timely assimilation of the phenomenology'. It is this logical softness, consequently, which accounts for the relative ease with which people factionalize religious, political and other 'truths' -'the human condition'. -There is no mystery in the observation that discussion, territoriality, disagreement, manifest pecking-order and even violence, for example, and the various governmental and other organizational structures under which they exist, all have certain universally common developmental, procedural, 'textural' and inherently non-resolutional elements about them.

'The idiomatics' then, invest the persona and 'momentum' of the human condition in such a way that internal differences and even small factionalisms that may be relatively unobtrusive in the general sustenance of isolated peoples invariably become the first and major source of 'disharmony' as those peoples 'overpopulate' against each other -incompatibly, under 'what the system can bear', and they are important -in a 'pejorative' sense, because they predispose communication to failure by belief in 'phenomenology that isn't'. -'Melioration of the human condition can be expedited', consequently, only to the extent that that 'phenomenology' is corrected.

On momentum

MOMENTUM - We are 'physiologically disposed' to the daily routines that characterize us, and there is therefore, very much an equally physical momentum in 'the human phenomenon and generation of things human': it is only under some system of atoms disposed to the survival and propagation of the human organism that an automobile exists and is driveable and driven. What is important here is the understatement of momentum in 'the mass of humanity and its million-and-a-half-years nature-of-evolution-driven idiomatics' -day-to-day, generation-to-generation propulsion of the human condition. 'You can't change people' and 'That's the way people are', but 'the nature and constitution of human-being' is increasingly and ultimately a matter of 'the heuristic determination of life-style-and-quality under what the system can bear'. The only question then, is to what urgency this momentum may be understood and reconstituted so as to 'meliorate various otherwise inherent disasters'.

On pain and life-style-and-quality

PAIN AND LIFE-STYLE-AND-QUALITY - It is intrinsic of warm-blooded vertebrate evolution that pecking-order is based on pain and that 'successful peckers' consequently enjoy something of 'an accordingly convenienced viability'. Given that, 'deliberative capability' and certain other mutations, hominid evolution is generally marked by 'peckers one-upping and superceding each other by successive assimilation of ecosystem constitution' -idle-mind-time eventually, and 'life-style-and-quality' - the whole of such evolution, 'a machine that goes by itself'.]

PAIN constitutes a major 'tool and criterion' underlying the hierarchization and generally upward complexity of vertebrate evolution -what one animal learns to avoid in the course of its basic survival -and what 'one hominid applies another in the deferral of pain to himself and his own'. Whatever our interactions, their evolution reflects this 'survival-based, downwardly-exacted facilitation of viability. (-Nor should the 'physical discomfiture or depression of absent sex-and-companionship' be considered less than painful.)

But because pain is not 'usually encountered or acceptably used' in general daily life, it is not appreciated how critically integral that 'primitive application of pain and avoidance of possible pain' were to our evolution, and how, consequently, pain continues to underlie 'the human phenomenon and all things human' -that it is only thru 'further deliberative capability' in addition (that) we have constructed upon 'relatively mechanistic pecking-order and survival-of-the-fittest', the personas, culture and life-style-and-quality, the family, government and all other structures we presently associate with 'human-being'. (See Pecking Order, Competition, Institution, Government and Economic Policy.)

It is increasingly 'the nature of man' however, to find his pain-and-pecking-order-based institutionalizations constraining his life-style-and-quality and to find it 'increasingly practical', consequently, to degrade them in that progression. What this means is that despite 'a certain usefulness of societal and civilizational structures primitively based in pain, those structures will continue to be superceded under increasingly phenomenological, inherently broader-based and 'better intellectualized' criteria(*6).

LIFE-STYLE-AND-QUALITY is a personal holding more or less defined by the whole of 'idle-mind-time, the substance of that occupation and the potentials for both', and it exists, essentially, as 'the substance-and-measure of idle-mind-occupation in excess (or deficit) of occupation towards some basic viability'(*7).

Humans generally supercede each other not by 'reinventing the wheel' or by arbitrarily adopting the idle-mind-occupation of others, but by assimilating routine mechanisms of viability and, more generally, by learning, optimizing and exploring-for (oftentimes unknowingly) other 'viability-advancing properties of econiche constituency' -essentially increasing knowledge: the greater the assimilation of the phenomenology, the greater the configuration space entering both viability and life-style-and-quality(*8). -Whatever the course of human evolution 'appears' to be or have been in the past then, it is the nature of life-style-and-quality -superceding existing 'propriety', 'value' and other idiomatic expressions of 'human nature' basis and development, to be increasingly determined by 'phenomeknowledgy'.

On aristocratization and viability

ARISTOCRATIZATION AND VIABILITY - The supercessions of mankind -one genus or strain of hominids by another, false starts and dead branches included, is characterizable as an 'aristocratization' in that each such hominid is 'increasing-potentially capable of manifesting a more phenomenologically knowledgeable viability and idle-mind-occupation' -a more sophisticated life-style-and-quality. In this respect, 'aristocratization' naturally entails 'an optimization of its physiological constitution and viability under what the system can bear' as, ultimately, an only way of 'optimizing life-style-and-quality'. -Thus despite having no way of knowing how life-style-and-quality might be 'better constituted' than thru (present example) 'materiality', to some aristocratization it will forever be 'increasingly and heuristically determined by knowledge -and what materiality develops from that'.