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First a caution out of courtesy: The agenda behind this post is EPT.
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In many if not all cases, a part of the motivation behind philosophizing
(and, presumably, much of the motivation behind theoretical science
pursuits) is a hope of getting to feel that one has reached a new (at least
new in a personal sense) understanding.

So it is implicit that we normally tend to do our philosophizing in such a
way that _if_ something is eventually understood or concluded, it gives us a
positive rather than a negative "feeling of understanding";

This even if the pleasure is perversely derived from a successful defiance
of something 'philosophically feared' -- not unlike someone who (in a
typically human fashion) defies her/his fear of falling by parashuting or
bungee jumping.

For this reason and with respect to actual aspects of reality or
"near-enough truths" about how things are, when something in the field of
our philosophical (and/or scientific) scrutiny contains something profoundly
onerous or deeply off-putting then such "truths" will naturally tend (by
means of genetically pre-programed neural mechanisms) to trigger
"comprehension-averting preconscious reflexes".

A plausible case in point is IF (;-) interactions and events in our
phylogeny, ontogeny, and neuropsychology (perceivable patterns that we can
be rationally represented as "key-concepts of
key-cross-correlations") would
contain one or more such "sickening truth".

Sources of potentially self-defeating stress or potential "seriously
saddening sensibilites" DO currently exist, and HAVE existed historically,
pre-historically, and throughout the phylogeny of our species.

And, it is of importance that such sources get automatically
"conditioned-in" (pragmatically put).

>From earliest times in the evolution of animals (approximately from amoebic
animals onwards), there are frequent occurrences of an overlap between on
the one hand _environmental_ such stressors (as opposed to "intrinsic" such
stressor) -- i.e., environmental features, influences, or aspects of lived
situations, that primarily affects an individual adversely and that can be
classified into a corresponding _sub_ category of "adversity type"
evolutionary (including "naturally selective")
"pressures", and, on the
other hand, the dialectic opposite of such situations; Namely "opportunity
type" pressures.

Opportunity type life-situations do likewise naturally and environmentally
"present themselves" to individuals WHILST THEY OFTEN ALSO WORK as
'positive' selection (or, more generally, evolutionary) pressures*.

As a result of this scene having been naturally set (as seen, or
'percEPTively pattern-spotted', by the benefit of "post hoc predictive"
hindsight) for the eventual emergence of (or for the evolutionary tendency,
principle, and a past potential path of patterning towards) "AEVASIVE"
phenotypic dynamics (ranging from somatic to social-interactive); Or IOW,
the AEVASIVE characteristics of the human phenotype and species.

AEVASIVE is an exceptionally pragmatic term (or "concEPT"), that,
as part of
an eccentric philosophical terminology, _simultaneously_ "makes light of"
and "throws (complementary) light on" the phylogeny, the life-experiences,
and brain functions, behind "normal" symptoms (from individual to cultural
and social/institutional) of Neurosis.


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