My lifes work has been an attempt to find one logical proof to explain all human behavior based on objective science. That sounds impossible at first glace, but there are several things working in my favor. For one, all humans have have some things in common with all other humans, (regardless of each individuals uniqueness) by sheer virtue of living on the same planet and belonging to the same species. For another, people have been trying to explain human behavior in various ways from long before the beginning of recorded human history, so all that leaves for me to do is to put together the pieces that other people have collected.
In the process of discovering the origins of all human behavior through evolution, objective science, and logic, I have unearthed the evolutionary foundation of all human culture. This is the starting point of all traditional cultures, which arose as humans spread through the world and diverged to meet the needs of their habitats. Now that technology has progressed to the point that humans have once again become one global culture, its plain to see that the only solid foundation for a global civilization is a return to the evolutionary foundation of all human culture. Interstingly enough, all the people of the world who simply want to do their own thing and get along with other people all belong to this one universal evolutionary culture. This one culture of humanity predates all government and religion, and the structure of this one evolutionary culture of humanity is written in the genetic makeup of every human being on Earth. Best of all, because I have unearthed the foundation of this one universal culture of humanity through logic and objective science, the entire foundation of this culture must be recognizable within the American legal system (but I'm not holding my breath on our legal system actually recognizing it ).
To start with, every human being on Earth has five genetic traits in common. Two are the instincts that motivate every animal on Earth, and the other three are the abilities that separate humans from animals. The two instincts are survival and reproductionif those instincts werent genetic in every animal on Earth, species wouldnt survive and couldnt evolve. The three abilities are the ability to think in the abstract, the ability to perceive time as a dimension, and the ability to communicate complex ideas to other humans. These three abilities form the basis for human intellect.
All human actions (other than involuntary physiological activities) result from human decisions. No human ever undertakes any action without having decided to undertake it on some level. Decisions can be completely subconscious, or they can be made for conscious reasons the person doesnt pay attention to. Regardless of the reason, all human action begins with some mental process.
All humans require energy to live. To waste energy, therefore, contradicts the survival instinct. In order to satisfy the survival instinct as well as possible, all humans must use their energy as efficiently as possible. To do that, all humans make their decisions to give them the most favorable ratio of perceivable benefit to effort required.
All humans have the capacity for human intellect. In order to best satisfy their instincts, all humans must use their capacity for human intellect. Therefore, it is instinctive for humans to use their capacity for human intellect to satisfy their instincts. Capacity for human intellect allows all humans to project their instincts through time and into the abstract. In other words, animals survival and reproductive instincts can only be stimulated by their situations (including their genetic predispositions and their life experiences), but humans have the unique ability to have their instincts stimulated by ideas.
All humans have unique genetic abilities. All humans are (more or less) aware of their unique abilities. All humans are driven, as are animals, to use their abilities to their best potential to satisfy their instincts according to the needs of their situation. Because all humans have the abilities to think in the abstract, to perceive time as a dimension, and to communicate ideas with other humans, a part of humans instincts to use their abilities to best satisfy their instincts includes imagining different situations in which they could use their abilities better, and the ability to try to change their situation to allow them to use their abilities better. Any animal (essentially) only has the ability to use their abilities to their best potential within the context of their present situation (of which genetic predispositions and learned instincts are a part).
All human behavior is motivated by human emotion or feelings. All human emotion originates from human instinct combined with human intellect. In any situation, humans feel their instincts and the projection of those instincts into the abstract and/or through time. People act to best satisfy their instincts by best satisfying their emotions. It can be said, therefore, that emotion and human instinct are synonymous.
All humans were hunter-gatherers for more than 99% of humanitys time on Earth. Humans began evolving approximately 1,000,000 years ago. Agriculture was developed approximately 8,000 years ago. All humans lived as hunter-gatherers for approximately 992,000 years of humanitys time on Earth. During that time, human emotion evolved to cope with life in hunter-gatherer society. Evolutionarily speaking, 8,000 years is a negligible amount of time.
The development of agriculture was an evolutionary inevitability. As nomadic hunter-gathering humans came to discover that gatherable food grew out of their refuse dumps when they returned to areas where they had camped previously, over time their survival instincts and their capacity for human intellect caused them to perceive that they could find a more favorable ratio of benefit to effort required by planting food instead of hunting and gathering it, as measured in a very direct proportion of calories of edible food produced to calories of work required to produce that food.
In Mesopotamia, the actual ratio of calories of food produced by agriculture to the effort required to produce that food gave the farmers there the most favorable ratio of benefit to effort in food production of any culture in the world. Combined with the lucky coincidence that the Medeterranean Sea has a similar climate and is fairly close, Mesopotamian agriculture was able to survive there by the time the Mesopotamians had over-farmed their land into desert. As a result, it was inevitable that the energy efficiency and consequent productivity of Mesopotamian/ Mediterranean agriculture would prove the greatest fuel source for any civilization in the world, the civilization built on that fuel source would become the most powerful, and thereby it would conquer the world.
Agriculture enabled (and required) humans to stop their nomadic travels and settle down. Within hunter-gatherer society, no human could own more possessions than he or she could carry while traveling. Agriculture lifted this limit on possessions. That allowed humans, among other things, to build permanent settlements and roads, to develop metallurgy, writing, and technology, and to develop skills other than hunter-gathering.
Agriculture and its effects keep changing the world faster and fastermuch faster than evolution can keep up with. That is simply a result of humans using their abilities to best satisfy their instincts. However, because the development of agriculture pre-dated the development of writing by thousands of years, by the time humanity gained the ability to record its history, the people recording it had forgotten that they had ever been hunter-gatherers. For the great majority of recorded human history, the humans recording the history were unaware that they and their instincts were descended from hunter-gatherers.
On top of that, every infant is born into the world with animal instincts and the capacity for human intellect. No infant is born into the world with pre-existing intellect. That means that all humans spend the first two years of their lives motivated by, and consequently learning about the world through, hunter-gatherer instincts. Even after those two years, once humans develop enough intellect to start adapting their behavior to life in agrarian society, their base emotions are still driven by hunter-gatherer instincts.
If you listen to political analysts talk about the 2004 presidential race, you keep hearing the phrase sway the emotions of the voters. In other words, the mightiest military and economic power the world has ever seen has the ability to build the space shuttle, the internet, and nuclear reactors, but its still governed by hunter-gatherer instincts!
Only by discovering and working within the bounds of what makes humans human can people build a sustainable civilization. Harmony is more efficient and productive than conflict. If, for instance, you look at the political situation of the world (such as it is) as of 2004 compared to the political situation of the world as of 1944, and compare those to the economic states of the world at those two times, then history stands as my witness.
That brings me to the most important part of my project of all. Ive written the book in such a way that anyone with a highschool education, an open mind, and half an ounce of life experience can read it, replicate my studies, and apply them within the context of their own lives. I make references to building, automotives, theatre, aviation, biology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, organized Western religions, Eastern religions, nature-based spiritual paths, pop culture, counter culture, economics, history, and politics, but none of the book requires anyone to have more than basic familiarity with any of those things to be able to understand the the conclusions Ive reached. Because the code itself is written in the universal language of logic and (theoretical) mathematics built on objective science, it applies to, and can be used by, anyone in the world. Because its explained in terms that basically anyone in the Western world can see happening all around them in the course of (more-or-less) everyday life, it can be understood by the people who make up the foundation of the most powerful political and economic force in the world.
I will be posting parts of this book here regularly for the foreseeable future. All feedback is greatly appreciated.
In the process of discovering the origins of all human behavior through evolution, objective science, and logic, I have unearthed the evolutionary foundation of all human culture. This is the starting point of all traditional cultures, which arose as humans spread through the world and diverged to meet the needs of their habitats. Now that technology has progressed to the point that humans have once again become one global culture, its plain to see that the only solid foundation for a global civilization is a return to the evolutionary foundation of all human culture. Interstingly enough, all the people of the world who simply want to do their own thing and get along with other people all belong to this one universal evolutionary culture. This one culture of humanity predates all government and religion, and the structure of this one evolutionary culture of humanity is written in the genetic makeup of every human being on Earth. Best of all, because I have unearthed the foundation of this one universal culture of humanity through logic and objective science, the entire foundation of this culture must be recognizable within the American legal system (but I'm not holding my breath on our legal system actually recognizing it ).
To start with, every human being on Earth has five genetic traits in common. Two are the instincts that motivate every animal on Earth, and the other three are the abilities that separate humans from animals. The two instincts are survival and reproductionif those instincts werent genetic in every animal on Earth, species wouldnt survive and couldnt evolve. The three abilities are the ability to think in the abstract, the ability to perceive time as a dimension, and the ability to communicate complex ideas to other humans. These three abilities form the basis for human intellect.
All human actions (other than involuntary physiological activities) result from human decisions. No human ever undertakes any action without having decided to undertake it on some level. Decisions can be completely subconscious, or they can be made for conscious reasons the person doesnt pay attention to. Regardless of the reason, all human action begins with some mental process.
All humans require energy to live. To waste energy, therefore, contradicts the survival instinct. In order to satisfy the survival instinct as well as possible, all humans must use their energy as efficiently as possible. To do that, all humans make their decisions to give them the most favorable ratio of perceivable benefit to effort required.
All humans have the capacity for human intellect. In order to best satisfy their instincts, all humans must use their capacity for human intellect. Therefore, it is instinctive for humans to use their capacity for human intellect to satisfy their instincts. Capacity for human intellect allows all humans to project their instincts through time and into the abstract. In other words, animals survival and reproductive instincts can only be stimulated by their situations (including their genetic predispositions and their life experiences), but humans have the unique ability to have their instincts stimulated by ideas.
All humans have unique genetic abilities. All humans are (more or less) aware of their unique abilities. All humans are driven, as are animals, to use their abilities to their best potential to satisfy their instincts according to the needs of their situation. Because all humans have the abilities to think in the abstract, to perceive time as a dimension, and to communicate ideas with other humans, a part of humans instincts to use their abilities to best satisfy their instincts includes imagining different situations in which they could use their abilities better, and the ability to try to change their situation to allow them to use their abilities better. Any animal (essentially) only has the ability to use their abilities to their best potential within the context of their present situation (of which genetic predispositions and learned instincts are a part).
All human behavior is motivated by human emotion or feelings. All human emotion originates from human instinct combined with human intellect. In any situation, humans feel their instincts and the projection of those instincts into the abstract and/or through time. People act to best satisfy their instincts by best satisfying their emotions. It can be said, therefore, that emotion and human instinct are synonymous.
All humans were hunter-gatherers for more than 99% of humanitys time on Earth. Humans began evolving approximately 1,000,000 years ago. Agriculture was developed approximately 8,000 years ago. All humans lived as hunter-gatherers for approximately 992,000 years of humanitys time on Earth. During that time, human emotion evolved to cope with life in hunter-gatherer society. Evolutionarily speaking, 8,000 years is a negligible amount of time.
The development of agriculture was an evolutionary inevitability. As nomadic hunter-gathering humans came to discover that gatherable food grew out of their refuse dumps when they returned to areas where they had camped previously, over time their survival instincts and their capacity for human intellect caused them to perceive that they could find a more favorable ratio of benefit to effort required by planting food instead of hunting and gathering it, as measured in a very direct proportion of calories of edible food produced to calories of work required to produce that food.
In Mesopotamia, the actual ratio of calories of food produced by agriculture to the effort required to produce that food gave the farmers there the most favorable ratio of benefit to effort in food production of any culture in the world. Combined with the lucky coincidence that the Medeterranean Sea has a similar climate and is fairly close, Mesopotamian agriculture was able to survive there by the time the Mesopotamians had over-farmed their land into desert. As a result, it was inevitable that the energy efficiency and consequent productivity of Mesopotamian/ Mediterranean agriculture would prove the greatest fuel source for any civilization in the world, the civilization built on that fuel source would become the most powerful, and thereby it would conquer the world.
Agriculture enabled (and required) humans to stop their nomadic travels and settle down. Within hunter-gatherer society, no human could own more possessions than he or she could carry while traveling. Agriculture lifted this limit on possessions. That allowed humans, among other things, to build permanent settlements and roads, to develop metallurgy, writing, and technology, and to develop skills other than hunter-gathering.
Agriculture and its effects keep changing the world faster and fastermuch faster than evolution can keep up with. That is simply a result of humans using their abilities to best satisfy their instincts. However, because the development of agriculture pre-dated the development of writing by thousands of years, by the time humanity gained the ability to record its history, the people recording it had forgotten that they had ever been hunter-gatherers. For the great majority of recorded human history, the humans recording the history were unaware that they and their instincts were descended from hunter-gatherers.
On top of that, every infant is born into the world with animal instincts and the capacity for human intellect. No infant is born into the world with pre-existing intellect. That means that all humans spend the first two years of their lives motivated by, and consequently learning about the world through, hunter-gatherer instincts. Even after those two years, once humans develop enough intellect to start adapting their behavior to life in agrarian society, their base emotions are still driven by hunter-gatherer instincts.
If you listen to political analysts talk about the 2004 presidential race, you keep hearing the phrase sway the emotions of the voters. In other words, the mightiest military and economic power the world has ever seen has the ability to build the space shuttle, the internet, and nuclear reactors, but its still governed by hunter-gatherer instincts!
Only by discovering and working within the bounds of what makes humans human can people build a sustainable civilization. Harmony is more efficient and productive than conflict. If, for instance, you look at the political situation of the world (such as it is) as of 2004 compared to the political situation of the world as of 1944, and compare those to the economic states of the world at those two times, then history stands as my witness.
That brings me to the most important part of my project of all. Ive written the book in such a way that anyone with a highschool education, an open mind, and half an ounce of life experience can read it, replicate my studies, and apply them within the context of their own lives. I make references to building, automotives, theatre, aviation, biology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, organized Western religions, Eastern religions, nature-based spiritual paths, pop culture, counter culture, economics, history, and politics, but none of the book requires anyone to have more than basic familiarity with any of those things to be able to understand the the conclusions Ive reached. Because the code itself is written in the universal language of logic and (theoretical) mathematics built on objective science, it applies to, and can be used by, anyone in the world. Because its explained in terms that basically anyone in the Western world can see happening all around them in the course of (more-or-less) everyday life, it can be understood by the people who make up the foundation of the most powerful political and economic force in the world.
I will be posting parts of this book here regularly for the foreseeable future. All feedback is greatly appreciated.
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ex: I'm a vegetarian. I like animals to exist as they are, whole and unharmed. This would be the emotional part of me speaking.
If a mountain lion attacks me as I walk in the mountains, I will do my damndest to rip it's fucking throat out. This is my instinct.
Though I would prefer to preserve the lion and let be it in it's natural habitat, I will not let my emotion sway the fact that the lion attacked me and caused me to poke out it's eyes.
Some could say that I was fearful for my life and therefore used an emotion to complete my objective, but for the most part, instinct would have guided my actions.