Evolutionary Psychology Introduction

Dear Reader, I hear you might like Psychology. Not the apologetic morally degrading free will disallowing theories from such friends as Mr Freud. My psychology, called Evolutionary Psychology, looks into the human mind from a different perspective and does not really involve morality as a core subject into it.

Evolutionary Psychology is really a mix between Anthropology which is the study of everything human, and psychology which is the study of human thinking. This mean, in the end, that we just look at everything linked to our thinking such Biology, Neurology, Psychology And Developmental Psychology, Physiology, Archeology, Genetics, Sociology, Linguistics, Logic, and History.

The way an evolutionary psychologist looks to the subject of human thinking as a sophisticated system made of many modules, whether by design or by chance is not really a concern to us. The system's modules would be memory, or sense, or self-awareness.

And here comes the evolutionary part, the kicker if you will. Here we dramatically depart from the "other" Psychology which to me is more like Self-Help Books that made it into science. It is the variety of human minds. It seems that everyone thinks that we all have the same brain. Evolution tells us different, our brain must be at least as different as our bodies - hair, looks, etc. Or at least as different as our organs - livers and hearts. It seems like a black hole noone is looking at, this difference in our brains but it is everywhere around us - slow and gifted people, gays, alcoholics, pedophiles, serial killers, and the normal Joe who we really haven't met yet. This is because evolution, or genetics, turns on and off and set to a varying degrees each of those modules. So you are pretty much preset with random combination of settings about your brain. Kind a like a table-top RPG where the dice rolls and you assign points to different characteristics, geeks know.

There is another story that Evolution tells us - each successive offspring of particular parents or small community will be more close to a specific setting but this is hardly of a concern in our environment.

Evolutionary psychology does not theorize that there is a "good" or "best" settings even where there are 0s in the scores and that 100 score can also be as a big a malady as a 0 score. There are just as a difference maker as the difference between hair colors. This is where our field of science has failed us, since no serious argument was made against a "murderer" or "pedophilia" setting. A particular setting might make you more prone to be a serial killer just as much as a devoted priest or a regular Joe with a few quirks. This is because the modules are just like an office building a company is moving into. The serial killer claiming a setting's mishmash for his "problem" is like the company claiming abysmal productivity and earnings because of the way their office is laid out. And they are the ones that set it up.

So our science deals in a big part with a holistic view of all the settings. To do that we deal with identifying them. This is easy with the big ones such as memory and intelligence for which the other sciences has provided numerous tests and measurements. But for rudimentary things like Love or Attachment or Self Imaging are not even on the radar. It is also highly humorous in our field how a man can think he biologically wants to have a sexual intercourse with his mother than to think that you just don't have that Love another has. Again, it is like being jealous of someones hair color. And there are people like that and they are crazy and should see our General Psychology friends. I think they can dope you out of it. I'm sure they have the Love pill, right next to the Alcoholism and Depression pills. In the end for us it is only a difference and not in any way a defining factor for morality and a way of life.

We study what the module's functionality and how and what works at different settings. So a high score in long term memory results in what? It can make the subject to remember incredible details of events but not affect his remembering his own thoughts. So he will be forgetful about chores as a "normal" person but will remember every detail of doing it. Of course in such a situation we must look at the modules he uses to perceive the self and identify whether the input is of poor quality.

And this is where we get to the hard part. Just as some settings can be "comfortable" in some environments others can be "uncomfortable." For instance in a culture where the schools test excessively with written tests of long-term memory you can get in a lot of trouble if you are with a low long-term memory function. But there are many ways to deal with pretty much any setting. For example many children with dyslexia, look at written text the the letters start dancing around and you can't read them, are rarely diagnosed before 10 in developing countries and most rural ones never even get diagnosed because if none in the village reads then you would never even notice. Not a whole lot of a difference in the big cities. The real shocker is of course all those kids felt very different long before they knew, and they were uniformly a trouble maker. We believe that there is an inherent check sum module that constantly checks if our point totals are "good." It does internal checks, environmental and social ,etc. etc. If anything is out of the ordinary it sounds an alarm. The alarm turns off when it is recognized and the problem is fixed.

When the alarm is sounded we need to identify the module sounding the alarm. Sometimes there might be a temporal malady that has been cause by external factors and we can just explain how the module works and terminate the external agresors. This is rarely the case. Most probably we stumble on dyslexic, or the alcholic, or any other of the hundreds of examples of a module or two that are not working in that person. Surprisingly there are many people with those. But some of them are more minor than others. But uniformly we have fall backs as to how to handle a module failing here and there.

So this is ultimately our task, to find ways for the dyslexic to "read" and "write" when he cannot see written text. For the alcoholic who cannot see others point of view nor his own to see. For the homesexual and the pedophile, for everyone whose malady can be described as BEING DIFFERENT.