[ExI] Physics versus psychology

[The Avantguardian]

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> From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Sun, October 24, 2010 4:02:00 PM
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> But hypnosis has me baffled.  I can't come up with a reason the
> psychological trait engaged in hypnosis has any survival or
> reproductive advantage at all.

I imagine that hypnosis is a somewhat primitive brain function evolved early on. 
My reasoning for this? Animals can enter trance-like states resembling hypnosis 
like when a deer is mesmerized by headlights or a chicken is hypnotized. It may 
be some kind of defense mechanism to keep from attracting the attention of large 
predators or something by remaining motionless. I dont know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMZDieZoing&feature=fvw

Stuart LaForge 


“To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.” -Carl Jung