Animals make us Human by Temple Grandin
Quote pg 297
" People forget that nature can be very harsh , and death in the wild is often more painful and stressful than death in a modern plant. Out on a western ranch I saw a calf that has its hide ripped completely off on the side by coyotes. It was alive and the rancher has to shoot it to put it out of its misery. If I have a choice , going to a well-run slaughter plant would be preferable to being ripped apart alive. "
Quote pg 5
" All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain. ....
....Dr Jaak Panksepp, a neuroscientist ... who wrote the book Affective Neuroscience ...calls the core emotion systems "blue-ribbon emotions" because they generate well organized behavior sequences that can be evoked by localized electrical stimulation of the brain. This means that when you stimulate the brain systems for core emotions, you always get the same behavior from the animal. If you simulate the anger system , the animal snarls and bites . If you simulate the fear system , the animal freezes and runs away. ..... Electrode in the "SEEKING" system make the animal start moving forward , sniffing , and exploring its environment. When you stimulate these parts of the brain in people, they report the same emotions animals show. "
Blue Ribbon Emotion
(1) SEEKING
curiosity / interest / anticipation
(2) RAGE
(3) FEAR
(4) PANIC
(5) LUST
(6) CARE
(7) PLAY
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
Quote page 91
"Another huge difference between animals and people : I don't think animals have the defence mechanisms Sigmund Freud described in humans.Projection, displacement , repression , denial . Defense mechanisms defend against anxiety , and all defense mechanisms depend on repression in some way. Using repression , you push whatever it is you are afraid of down into your unconcious mind and focus your concious mind on a stand-in. Or in the case of higher, more mature defense mechanisms, like humor, altruism or intellectualization, you use humor , empathy and thought to push away the "real" emotion, which is fear."
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
Quote page 51
"The first and oldest brain, which is physically the lowest down from inside the skull, is the reptilian brain (corresponds to that in lizards that perform basic life support function like breathing) The next brain , in the middle, is the paleomammalian brain(corresponds to that in mammals which handles emotions). The third and newest brain, highest up inside your head, is the neomammalian brain(corresponds to that in primates , especially people , which handles reason and langauge)..... the three brains are connected by nerves. but each one has its own personality and its own control system : the "top" does not contol the "bottom"....The reason we have 3 seperate brains instead of one is that evolution doesn't throw away things that work....Paul MacLean, the originator of the three brain theory, believes that evolution simiply added each newly evolved brain on top of the one that came before , without changing the older brain. He calls this the triune brain theory.
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
Quote page 121
"Dr Rodolfo Llinas, a neuroscientist at NYU who wrote I of the Vortex : From Neurons to Self , says the brain evolved because creatures needed a brain to help them move around without knocking into things. He gives the sea squirt as the ultimate example of what having a brain is all about. The sae squirt is a primitive organism with about three hundred brain cells that starts out looking like a tadpole, then ends up looking a little bit like a turnip. For the first day of its life it swims around until it finds a permanent spot to latch on to. Once it finds its spot, it doesn't move again for the rest of its life.
Here is the interesting part : while it is swimming it has a primitive nervious system, but once it becomes attached to an object it eats up its own brain. It also eats its own tail muscles. Basically the sea squirt begins life as a kind of tadpole , with a tadpole like brain, then turns into an oyster-class creature. Since the sea squirt isn't going to move ever again, it does not need a brain. "
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
Quote page 305
"Fossil records show that whenever a species becomes domesticated its brain gets smaller. The horse brain shrank by 16% ; the pig brain shrank as much as 34% and the dog brain shrank 10 to 30% . This probably happened because once humans started to take care of these animals , they no longer needed the various brain functions in order to survive. In all domestic animals the forebrain, which hols the frontal lobes ... in humans the mid brain, which handles emotions and sensory data , and the olfactory bulbs, which handle smell .... Dog brains and human brains speccialized : humans took over the planing and organizing tasks , dogs took over the sensory tasks...coevolve..."
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Monday, May 31, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Quotation : Body and Body aches
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Diary Chuck Palahniuk pg 40
... Misty's breast looking like a couple dead carp .....
pg 121
Her headache, its the feeling of a hammer tap, tap , tapping a long nail into the back of your head, a conceptual art piece, tapping harder and harder in one spot until you forget everything else in the world.
... Misty's breast looking like a couple dead carp .....
pg 121
Her headache, its the feeling of a hammer tap, tap , tapping a long nail into the back of your head, a conceptual art piece, tapping harder and harder in one spot until you forget everything else in the world.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Quotation : Man
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The Guide by R.K Narayan page 85
His mother used to say " If there is one good man anywhere, the rain would descend for his sake and benefited the world " quoting from a Tamil poem.
Mr Sampath - The printer of Malgudi by R.K. Narayan
pg 10
Man has no significance except as a wage earner, as an economic unit, as a receptacle of responsibilities
Diary by Chuck Palahniuk pg 33
Your wife , your daughter , you mother. The three women in your life
Freakonomics by Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner
pg 257
Economist typically separate our daily activities into three categories : Market Work(which produce income), home production(unpaid chores) and pure leisure.
pg16
Economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.
pg17
An incentive is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing.But most incentives don't come about organically. Someone--- an economist or a politician or a parent --- has to invent them.
...... There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social and moral.
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
Quote pg 139
"The anxiety about human nature can be boiled down to four fears:
(1) If people are inately different, opression and discrimination would be justified
(2) If people are inately immoral, hopes to improve the human condition would be futile.
(3) If people are products of biology, free will would be a myth and we could no longer hold people responsible for their actions.
(4) If people are products of biology, life would have no higher meaning and purpose "
His mother used to say " If there is one good man anywhere, the rain would descend for his sake and benefited the world " quoting from a Tamil poem.
Mr Sampath - The printer of Malgudi by R.K. Narayan
pg 10
Man has no significance except as a wage earner, as an economic unit, as a receptacle of responsibilities
Diary by Chuck Palahniuk pg 33
Your wife , your daughter , you mother. The three women in your life
Freakonomics by Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner
pg 257
Economist typically separate our daily activities into three categories : Market Work(which produce income), home production(unpaid chores) and pure leisure.
pg16
Economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.
pg17
An incentive is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing.But most incentives don't come about organically. Someone--- an economist or a politician or a parent --- has to invent them.
...... There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social and moral.
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
Quote pg 139
"The anxiety about human nature can be boiled down to four fears:
(1) If people are inately different, opression and discrimination would be justified
(2) If people are inately immoral, hopes to improve the human condition would be futile.
(3) If people are products of biology, free will would be a myth and we could no longer hold people responsible for their actions.
(4) If people are products of biology, life would have no higher meaning and purpose "
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Quotation : Charactorization
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Death Kit by Susan Sontag pg2
Diddy, not really alive , Hardly the same. Some people are their lives. Others, like Diddy, merely inhabit their lives. Like insecure tenants, never knowing exactly the extent of their property or when the lease will expire. Like unskilled cartographers drawing and redrawing erroneous maps of an exotic continent .
Eventually , for such a person , everything is bound to run down. The walls sag. Empty spaces budge between objects. The surfaces of object sweat , thin out begin to buckle. The hysterical fluids of fear deposited at the core of objects ooze out along the seams. Deploying things and navigating through space becomes labourous. Too much effort to ample from kitchen to living room, serving drinks, turning on the hi-fi, pretending to be cheerful. But Diddy difficulities cannot be resolved by bigger effort. Stepped-up effort won't repair his ingenious sense of incapacity, which proceeds from a hallucinated erasure of the present as it becomes past.
Diddy, not really alive , Hardly the same. Some people are their lives. Others, like Diddy, merely inhabit their lives. Like insecure tenants, never knowing exactly the extent of their property or when the lease will expire. Like unskilled cartographers drawing and redrawing erroneous maps of an exotic continent .
Eventually , for such a person , everything is bound to run down. The walls sag. Empty spaces budge between objects. The surfaces of object sweat , thin out begin to buckle. The hysterical fluids of fear deposited at the core of objects ooze out along the seams. Deploying things and navigating through space becomes labourous. Too much effort to ample from kitchen to living room, serving drinks, turning on the hi-fi, pretending to be cheerful. But Diddy difficulities cannot be resolved by bigger effort. Stepped-up effort won't repair his ingenious sense of incapacity, which proceeds from a hallucinated erasure of the present as it becomes past.
Quotes : Mind and Memory
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Death Kit by Susan Sontag(312pages)
Quote pg 35
Diddy is beginning , just beginning , to doubt his memory. But that always happens, doesnt it ? All past events, both real and imginary, are consigned to the trusteeship of the imagination.Wheather the killing of the workman was fantasy or fact, Diddy has no access to it (now) except through his imagination. The past must be re-imagined; memories arn't like furnature, something solid you can own.
Seduction of the Minotaur by Anais Nin (pg159)
Quote pg 120
And now the words spoken by Doctor Hernandez were clear to her, their meaning reached her. "We may seem to forget a person, a place, a state of being, a past life, but meanwhile what we are doing is selceting new actors, seeking the closest reproduction to the friend, the lover, the husband we are trying to forget, in order to re-enact the drama with understudies. And one day we open our eyes and there we are, repeating the same story. How could it be otherwise? The design comes from within us. It is internal. It is what the old mystics described as karmas, repeated until the spiritual or emotional experience was understood, liquidated, achieved."
The Loop by Jacques Roubaud
Quote pg 25
In the perpetual present of memories-- site of the Augustinian trinity "present of the past, present of the present, present of the future"
Quote pg 35
Diddy is beginning , just beginning , to doubt his memory. But that always happens, doesnt it ? All past events, both real and imginary, are consigned to the trusteeship of the imagination.Wheather the killing of the workman was fantasy or fact, Diddy has no access to it (now) except through his imagination. The past must be re-imagined; memories arn't like furnature, something solid you can own.
Seduction of the Minotaur by Anais Nin (pg159)
Quote pg 120
And now the words spoken by Doctor Hernandez were clear to her, their meaning reached her. "We may seem to forget a person, a place, a state of being, a past life, but meanwhile what we are doing is selceting new actors, seeking the closest reproduction to the friend, the lover, the husband we are trying to forget, in order to re-enact the drama with understudies. And one day we open our eyes and there we are, repeating the same story. How could it be otherwise? The design comes from within us. It is internal. It is what the old mystics described as karmas, repeated until the spiritual or emotional experience was understood, liquidated, achieved."
The Loop by Jacques Roubaud
Quote pg 25
In the perpetual present of memories-- site of the Augustinian trinity "present of the past, present of the present, present of the future"
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