I think evolution tends towards optimal compromise, lowest cost/benefit ratio. No advertising of health may mean least energy expenditure, but no...
Yes. The point about natural selection is the survival of species, not individuals within that species. Obviously the two often align, though not...
Seems we just have :).
I just have a real problem with any statement that evolution purposefully designs anything, be it a turn of phrase or otherwise. To me the...
Long time ago as a young person I had a great deal of growing up, readjustment and personal sorting out to do. I developed my own version of CBT,...
I agree with your caution here of course. The big flaw in the BPS thinking is the presumption that ME symptoms are modifiable by the changing of...
Agreed, but we sometimes need to be much more careful about "blanket labelling" different things that are sometimes only loosely grouped, with a...
Shows that language itself can be at the root of some of this. A word such as "depression" is an umbrella word that covers many variations, but...
Soldiers, police, etc, will have to do it to some degree, as well as sharpen other reflexes. I suspect many professions have to do it to some...
And that "leap of faith" ( :rolleyes: ) from '3' to '4' is the real travesty. There seems to be this attempted land grab by the psychobabble...
There are presumably easily confused areas as well. e.g. Shivering/twitching with a high fever?
Totally agree with this. In fact I'm mystified where the idea comes from that all behaviour has to be voluntary, or can necessarily be trained...
Yes agreed. The candidate traits occur randomly, and prevailing conditions then determine which of those traits potentially persist in a species...
Surely if those responses are involuntary, and have evolved to aid survival in a given sickness scenario, they still count as symptoms, even if...
Nothing is, is it? Random selection?
I think it may be a little more to it when it comes to ME. ME is just different somehow, and I think people with no understanding of it get fooled...
Agreed.
I'm sure some of our most deeply embedded behaviours originate from before we had even evolved into humans
Just to add another confusion, predators are typically wary of eating obviously-diseased prey. I can't vouch for the veracity of the information...
We had our goldie from 8 weeks to nearly 17 years, and although he surely knew how to "give you the look" with those big beautiful brown eyes, and...
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