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 Dinesh
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A Note on the Genomic Unconscious

A brief note in the order regarding genomic unconscious, one of the hidden forces that conscious deliberation needs to be contend with. What do I mean by genomic unconscious? Quite simply, the colossal number of instructions that are contained in our genome that guide the construction of the organism with the distinct features of our phenotype, in both body proper and brain, and the further assist with the operation of the organism. The basic design of our brain circuitries is instructed by the genome, and that basic design contains the very first repoertoire of nonconscious know-how has to do first and foremost with life regulation, issues of life and death, and reproduction; but preisely because of the centrality of those issues, the design promotes a number of behaviors that may appear to be decided by conscious cognition but are in fact driven by non-conscious dispositions. The spontaneous preferences one manifests early in life, regarding food and drink and mates and habitats, are driven in part from the genomic unconscious, although they can be modulated and modified by individual experience throughout development. ` Page 295 "Self comes to Mind" ~ Antonio Damasio

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Psychology has long recognized the existence of unconscious foundations of behavior and studied them under the rubics of instinct, automatic behaviors, drives, and motivations. What has changed recently is the realization that the early placement of such dispositions in the human brain is under considerable genetic influence and that, notwithstanding all the shaping and remodeling we undertake as conscious individuals, the thematic scope of such dispositions is wide and their pervasiveness astonishing. This is especially notable regarding some of the dispositions on which cultural structures have been built. The genetic unconscious had something to say about the early shaping of arts, from music and painting to poetry. It had something to do with the early structuring of the social space, including its conventions and rules. It had something to do, as both Freud and Jung certainly snsed, with many aspects of human sexuality. It had a lot to contribute to the fundamental narratives of religion and to the time honored plots of plays and novels, which revolves in no small part around the force of genomically inspired emotional programs.. . . Page 295

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