Hypochondriasis
The parasympathetic nervous system mediates (1) lust for fornication,
(2) play to develop fitness to survive, (3) hunger, feeding, and storing or hibernating, and (4) love as grooming.
Our neocortex enjoins Homo domesticus to add to
(1) fornication -> (a) marriage
(2) play -> (b) losing -> (c) shame
(3) feeding, storing -> (d) greed -> (e) hoarding
(4) love, grooming-> (f) charity -> (g) mercy -> (h) heaven
The sympathetic nervous system evolved for (5) sexual rivalry, territorial (6) fighting, (7) alliances and (8) competition, (9) ferocity and (10) violence, or (11) fleeing and (12) fearing or freezing and “playing possum.”
The new cortex enjoins Homo metropolus …show more content…
Unhealthily, the domesticated neo-cortex adds …show more content…
Neo-etho-sexology) to live an unfettered life as Homo sapiens, our personal evolution is more domesticated, and we belong to the subspecies Homo domesticus. (Table 16)
And if we are more covetous than competitive in our domesticity, more militant for equality than freedom-loving, then we have evolved into Homo metropolus.
Our parasympathetic nervous system makes us fornicate as well as feed ourselves and the life inside us. (Women can give up needed calcium to the unborn. Thus, the parasympathetic is the seat of love, sexual and maternal.) Sees to what is sexual and maternal.
All animals are equipped to flee or fight (“sympathetically”), fornicate or feed (parasympathetically).
To the original instinctive four f’s, Homo sapiens has added fantasy to the parasympathetic nervous system, and Homo domesticus and Homo metropolus have added fanaticism to the sympathetic nervous system.
Fantasy leads to creativity, fanaticism to ideology. Fantasy comes from the right-brain thinking and dreaming; fanaticism is facilitated by the left-brain talking and believing.
The creative f’s of (A) Feeling, (B) Forcing, (C) Framing, (D) Fitting, and (E) Finding ensure enough joy, even without our joining with