![]() ![]() The latter is what the article is talking about. There's the attention of bare awareness and acceptance, and there's the active attention of engagement. I think there are multiple kinds of attention. However, by taking the threat seriously and rewarding it, that causes the underlying fear to resurface. The self soothing behavior is a reward soothing feels good. One learns that washing one's hands helps them feel safer, calmer. OCD self reinforces via associated reward loops. This is the core premise behind exposure therapy. Thoughts that receive attention but no reward will eventually extinguish. If the thought receives attention the thought multiplies and produces offspring For the same reason, this is why their fears often revolve around what most shocks, abhors or disgusts them- what they are most ethically opposed to.Įdit: An important objection and clarification. This is why, for example, people with OCD’s fears generally revolve around losing the thing they value most- their mind, their reputation, their freedom, their life- because such fears find the most fertile ground and thus outcompete others. And what do we call a part of an organism evolving, trying to take over as much real estate within its host as possible- even, potentially, unto the death of the organism? Hence, pathological fear is a lineage within us, evolving, seeking to expand, to grab ever more attention for itself and its offspring. Any variation that grabs attention is promoted, and variation that loses attention shrinks away. ![]() However, fearfulness also grabs the attention, and so fear thoughts replicate and evolve - fear, especially pathological fear, mutates to grab ever more attention- making itself more extreme to captivate us, finding ways around the stories we tell ourselves to convince ourselves we will be safe. Typically if a thought receives attention it will be because it is useful, entertaining, or interesting- although thoughts attended to in this manner may be counterproductive, they are very often valuable. I am interested in using evolution to understand the development of ideas within an individual. This is fascinating, but my goal is different. This idea is of course, similar to Dawkins's concept of the meme, but the difference is that most people in the meme paradigm have primarily tried to use evolution to understand how ideas develop in populations of humans. This is a process with real similarities to biological evolution. 1 adj You describe a person or their behaviour as pathological when they behave in an extreme and unacceptable way, and have very powerful feelings which. If the thought receives attention the thought multiplies and produces offspring. Now when a thought arises, either that thought receives attention or doesn’t. This is a simplification, of course, the human mind generates predominantly contextually relevant thoughts, but they are in a sense partly random. is a type of anxiety disorder that causes extreme fear in social. Let us imagine the human mind generating thoughts at random. Pathological anxiety is anxiety that is above and beyond the expected emotional response to a given situation. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |