From [Marc Abrams (2003.02.26.1924)]
Bill warned me. LOL He told me to calm down and think it through. I almost 
was able to do that. But I got to excited about it and posted it anyway. I forgot the header and I would like to add a few other things. In doing some preliminary reading I have found out;
The words, “stress”, “anxiety”, “anticipation” are in fact inadequate for theoretic use. The words have too general a meaning and are “states of being” or “processes” that actually are comprised of a number of different kinds and types of control systems. Any suggestions?
I believe this can be modeled and tested. The big questions are how?
Anyone interested in exploring this further?
Marc
Marc, good luck with your theoretic pursuits. Your approach reminded me of
a book by a Vancouver psychiatrist, "Scattered Minds." He goes into the
underlying role of anxiety in preventing an extended focus on one thing.
Part of the reason I was impressed by the book is that I felt I was being
described and explained.
I feel that changing levels of anxiety are both initiators of
decisions/action and outcomes of decisions/action. Its one of the feedback
loops. As I've previously written for CSGnet, I also feel that the
relationship between information input relevant for a decision and anxiety
levels is part of the mix.
The future of high-tech monitoring of brain processes is looking quite
exciting but I suspect it will be a long time before we have the real data
relevant to this level of analysis.
David Wolsk
davidwolsk@shaw.ca
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Subject: Why do we control what we do Part 2
from [Marc Abrams (2003.02.26.1924)]
Bill warned me. LOL He told me to calm down and think it through. I _almost_
was able to do that. But I got to excited about it and posted it anyway.
I forgot the header and I would like to add a few other things. In doing
some preliminary reading I have found out;
The words, "stress", "anxiety", "anticipation" are in fact inadequate for
theoretic use. The words have too general a meaning and are "states of
being" or "processes" that actually are comprised of a number of different
kinds and types of control systems. Any suggestions?
I believe this can be modeled and tested. The big questions are how?
Anyone interested in exploring this further?
Marc