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Preparatory Glossary

"ÆPT"
—is a letter-fused (thus fancified) version of AEPT, which is diversely derivable from complementary apt characterisations of what ÆPT is a flag for. ÆPT is sometimes expediently made to appear as EPT for use as a word-meaning qualifier or specifier. For example: Derogatory derivations to ÆPT are 'unaccEPTable'.

"Actention"
—covers the respective meanings of "behavior" and "preoccupation". It is an almost self-explanatory portmanteau term that merges "activity" with "attention".

[A more thorough but easily experienced as tedious explanation of "actention" (a concEPT) is that it refers to an neural and sceletomuscular activity from something as simple as brief as an orienting reflex triggered by something sensed but insignificant in the immediate environment, and emotion involving preoccupation or a purely intellectual preoccupation (any day-dreaming but not dreaming during sleep).

"Actentions", including any "focuses of attention" ("paid" while we are awake), are of course always primarily "paid" in the currency of neurometanbolic resources.

However, "actention" does refer to any autonomous neuromuscular activity other than implicitly in the sense that anything we think feel emote or do attentively does always fundamentally depend on these vital functions; functions carried out by the cardiovascular, pulmonary, and digestive systems.

Just to make sure, "actention" does not refer to any sceletomuscular or mental activity occuring during sleep—so not to sleep-walking escapades or nocturnal dreaming (not day-dreaming). Nor does it refer to zombie type behaviour, i.e. behavior absent of any normally present sensitivity to environmentally provided negative feedback.

With this in mind "actention" is ≈ consciousness as meant by Arthur Janov.]

"Ambiadvantageous"
represents a heuristic (or an ought to be obvious principle) that reflects a particular aspect of "Natural Selection" that is especially relevant to human evolution and human psychophysiology. "Ambiadvantageous" is a concEPT contrived to feature as the first A of the concEPT "EAVASIVE".

"Ambiadvantageous" will be explained (and as a result hopefully understood and accEPTed) in the main body of this short essay, but its implied meaning/definition specifies how human neuroticism evolved.

"EAVASIVE"
is the result of a fraught but eventually approximately finalized attempt [an attempt only partly but most noticably inspired by the nuclear arms-race shaming acronym for Mutual{ly} Assured Destruction] at compactly and comprehensively represent an explanation pertaining to mainly ourselves and human affairs.
EAVASIVE is the most integrative and demanding of all the acronymic concEPTs, but it can be simply explained as representing how we came to be the only species evolved to function and behave in exceptionally varied and potent, neurotically motivated (or co-motivated), ways.
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Human evolution explains human psychophysiology, and human psychophysiology explains money as not merely a means of achieving the benefits of trading but also as a corrupting influence in much of human affairs!

Our brains are usefully described as modular "actention" selection serving systems (maximally truncated to the "AS" positioned right in the middle of the acronymic concept "EAVASIVE").

A relatively few momentous pleiotropic mutations in our recent phylogeny brought about our (uniquely human) symbolic lingual cognition and also made our brains (our ASSSs) not just capable of multifarious artistic and scientific and technological achievements but also capable of deceiving ourself and others.

Our common ancestors' brains thereby became comensurately extra capable of indefinitely blocking and postponing distress.

That is, we evolved to have brains that include actention modules for intellectual and intellect-assisted "ambiadvantageous" preoccupations, whereas brains of other brainy animals, such as not least other simians, do not include (or only include rudimentary forms of) such actention modules.

"Actention modules" that manifest as intellectual or artistic or practical-technology applying or advancing pursuits or as more or less fanatically held ideologic or religious beliefs or attitudes have given our ancestors who pioneered these modules (and their immediate descendants of their extended family groups) a double edged ("ambiadvantageous") competitive as well as coping advantage over individuals or groups of hominins who lacked or had less of these characteristics.

What could and can still be dealt with by having these genes (for "ambiadvantageous", or adaptively neurotic, coping) and having developed these ambiadvantageous characteristics was (and is still) environmentally provided challenges of Opportunity-type.

Ambiadvantageous mutations in our recent phylogeny have provided traits that make us uniquely capable of behaviors or preoccupations ("EAVASIVE actentions" or EAVASIVEness≈adaptive neuroticism) exceptionally capable of exploiting environmentally present Opportunities while CURSES, that we have individually had the misfortune to accumulate, are not just kept sequestered but a source of co-motivation for our as a species hitherto often enough successful attempts to take environmentally provided "opportunities" or lifetime/selection pressures of "opportunity type" (i.e. any directly or indirectly lineage lenghtening when sufficiently exploited, environmental factors).

What circumstantial threats that are genuinely "traumatizing" (and that were survived even though they were overly onerous threats) leave behind (not just in us humans but in all 'neural enough' animals) are states of indefinitely postponed distress. Such states are approximately but suitably (and ÆPTly) described as "conditioned-in kept unconscious repercussive states effecting symptoms", or as "CURSES", for short

A consequence of the inhibitory neural functions that keep CURSES (≈blocked and indefinitely postponed distress) safely sequestered is that neurons located downstream of synapses where (within "actention modules" dedicated to drive distress) the flow of excitatory messages was automatically blocked are thereby kept from firing and in a state of relatively muted metabolism—a state ÆPTly referred to as "specific hibernation" (SH).

A CURSES (a primarily insidious state that implies the presence of SH in the actention module of the ASSS in which it was incurred) do in most cases remain for a lifetime.

 

CURSES tend to remain because frequent lifetime challenges demand to be "paid actention" and because threats of SH imploring type require and if adaptively coped with induce a pain/fear "gating" (distress blocking) conditioned inhibitory reflex—a conditioned reflex that soon becomes supplemented by various, by CURSES co-motivated, EAVASIVE behaviors, pursuits and preoccupations.

The human lineage evolved a uniquely lingual actention selection serving system, one capable of focusing/paying actention EAVASIVEly (do so opportunistically and at the same time defensively against CURSES incurred from for any reasons ended up under threats of SH imploring type.

These in our recent phylogeny added neural functures have had an augmenting effect on previously evolved distress-blocking (pain/fear gating) inhibitory functures that 'sequester' excitatory neural messages that would otherwise be relayed far enough (within a to distress dedicated actention module) to drive a fully "paid and focused" distress-type actention.

This kind of life-saving neural inhibition blocks specific synapses from relaying that would otherwise have originally, but also in most subsequent situations that are no longer as or at all acutely and directly distressful, drive distress maladaptively.

This capability serve (and has served) survival such as not least when, from early on, social needs are chronically unmet—a far from rare predicament in human evolution, prehistory, throughout history, and in nearly all current societies, but clearly more so in modern highly developed industrial societies than in so called "primitive" hunter-gatherer type societies.

Examples of such protracted predicaments can be described with conventional clumsiness as "quietely traumatising"; or, it can be ÆPTly described as "chronically social need depriving SHI type predicaments that demand to be automatically coped with by functions that indefinitely block and postpone distress".

The ÆPT alternative to the clumsy Freudian terminology was eclectically pieced together with thoroughly justified science-aligned logic but also with distinctly "MAD"-inspired ambition to form aptly/deservedly allusive acronyms.

One of these ÆPT acronyms (~SHI threats) makes use of the word "hibernation" not in its lexical meaning but as a means of being able to didactically contrast SH with "General Hibernation" meant in the sense of seasonally harsh habitats not migrated away from but coped with by preparing for and entering into a state of dormancy—a state of generally muted metabolism.

Hence it is apt to consider how what is ÆPTly meant by "SH" differs and is similar to General 'Hibernation' (GH)=the respective lexical meanings of "aestivation" as well as of "hibernation".

A longer description of what survived (and by definition circumstantial) "specific hibernation imploring" threats (lifetime challenges of SHI type) automatically leave behind, and that can be maximally truncated to CURSES, is:
Commonly conditioned-in, commonly chronically kept unconsciously reverberating signaling states, states that even so are effecting symptoms” (from "signature EAVASIVE" symptoms, down to always deleterious somatic such).
A longer spelling of this concEPT would make it too spooky looking, too difficult to pronounce, and too laborsome to write.

SH imploring threats are ('ÆPTly meant to be thought of' as) a subcategory of all kinds of lifetime adversity (threats).

And, it is of great (heuristic) ÆPT importance to considered and accEPT that all threats but especially SHI threats and CURSES, are the diametric or dialectic opposite of lifetime challenges (or selection/evolutionary pressures) of 'Opportunity type' and that all these have been selection pressures that eventually paid-off in the form of our uniquely human EAVASIVEness.