Nature Does Nurture Will (Continued)

HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH
BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

This research is a preparation for my application of Human Services Administration in revealing the implications of and healing increasingly toxic environments, the effects of which are presently evident in almost every structural aspect of life on earth, such as the ways that dis-eases are treated, how resources are managed, and how those toxicities have an undeniably detrimental effect on the overall quality of life for everyone, wherein the propensities for genetic predispositions become more common.  How does this occur in an observably physiological way?  What might it look like?  It is an account of what the Howard Pierce text, The Owner's Manual for the Brain (4th Edition): The Ultimate Guide to Peak Mental Performance at All Ages, calls taking “an interactionist approach, which describes the intimate, sensitive way in which mind (ideas and images) and body (cells, chemicals, and electricity) directly and immediately influence each other” (part 1, sec. 2).  Administering homeostatic functioning of groups and communities is much needed, and I am glad to be responding to that call.

 

Resource #1
Fosshage, J. L. (2004). The explicit and implicit dance in psychoanalytic change. Journal Of Analytical Psychology, 49(1), 49-65.  EBSCOhost database.

A person’s relationship to the environment and their perception thereof is projected by their desire, but from where does that come?  It is a learned response.  This conclusion is supported in a portion of the 2007 documentary, Zeitgeist – The Movie, wherein Dr. Gabor Maté explains, related to this article, about “a significant way in which early experiences shape adult behavior.”  This article discusses, in fact, “How the implicit/non-declarative and explicit/declarative cognitive domains interact is centrally important in the consideration of effecting change within the psychoanalytic arena.”  The intended purpose of this type of data would be to use it as compelling evidence for reconstructing the broken system that largely defines how those cognitive domains are conditioned.  As, The Owners Manual for the Brain textbook states in part one’s subtitle, Conclusions Regarding Nature and Nurture, “to the degree that all traits are hereditary, they are adaptive; they are helpful to survival” (Pierce, 2014, location 875).

 

Resource #2
Vatovec, C., Senier, L., & Bell, M. (2013). An Ecological Perspective on Medical Care: Environmental, Occupational, and Public Health Impacts of Medical Supply and Pharmaceutical Chains. Ecohealth, 10(3), 257-267. doi:10.1007/s10393-013-0855-1.  EBSCOhost database.

This article is the report of an ethnographic study of some of the ecological impacts found to be had by healthcare organizations and their facilities and operations.  It is a well-documented fact that large, corporate pharmaceutical industries lobby their products much to the detriment of the morale of their customers.  After all, the primary business motive for the so-called service given by pharmaceutical giants, observation and logic says, is not to keep people healthy, that would only gradually lessen their need to exist, but it is actually increased profits for their shareholders.  The conclusion of the study is this--“[c]urrent institutional practices in healthcare settings involve unsustainable and often wasteful use of material resources that have potential impacts on the natural environment and human health” (Vastovec, Senier, & Beil, 2013, p. 265).

 

Resource #3
Stoekl, A. (2007). Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved October 30, 2015, from Project MUSE database.

The “status-quo” is a term that describes how comfort is killing the general minded, many of whom are conditioned to just accept their lot in life.  Such manufactured environmental influence is not natural, that is, it is not hereditary, nor is it useful, and “to the degree that all traits are hereditary, they are adaptive; they are helpful to survival” (Pierce, 2014, chapter 1, location 879).  The gross and grand ability for many to consume to excess has turned into a mismanagement and waste of finite resources, and this is not sustainable.  There is reference to a 1949 book by existentialist Jean-Paul Sarte called The Accursed Share, “which argued that the main problem confronting society was plenty, not scarcity,” and that notion seemed quite out of place at the time.  Modern economies, however, “indeed, are built on waste; their growth presupposes stupendous, inconceivable amounts of waste and ecological destruction” (Stoekl, 2007, pg. 118).

 

Resource #4
Rusbult, C. E., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2003). Interdependence, interaction, and relationships. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 351-75. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/205752843?accountid=12953       

The paradigm of Nature and Nurture can be seen as parallel to the concepts of mind and brain.  I propose in this specific context that Nature is the mind in every sense of the word, and Nurture is the brain, which has a key function of synapse, “the point at which neurons, or nerve cells, connect with one another; its effective functioning is vital to our quality of life” (Pierce, 2014, chapter 2, location 1108).  If an individual cell within the human body were to suppose its own independent will, severed from the whole, it is called a cancer.  That being said, it is natural to assume that the same phenomenon applies to each and every society and to all group functions.  “Specific situations present specific problems and opportunities, logically implying the relevance of specific motives and permitting their expression” (Rusbult & Van Lange, 2003).  By the accepting and appreciation of these patterns, synaptic connectivity can potentially unlock dormant areas of the brain, which will then require consideration and adaptation, the ultimate goal being optimal health in a utilitarian, mutual responsibility, therein, “reliably [activating] situation- and person-relevant attention, cognition, and affect, along with adaptations geared toward reducing vulnerability” (Rusbult & Van Lange, 2003).


Resource #5
Auletta, G.(2011-07-14). Mind and Brain (Body). In Cognitive Biology: Dealing with Information from Bacteria to Minds. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 31 Oct. 2015, from http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199608485.001.0001/acprof-9780199608485-chapter-25.

Homeostasis is defined as the tendency of an organism or a cell to regulate its internal conditions, usually by a system of feedback.  “As is well known, Descartes proposed treating the mind and the body as two different substances. The cost of modern philosophy having split the universe into two different substances was the blocking of any empirical investigation about consciousness and mind” (Auletta, 2011).  As was mentioned in the previous resource (#4), interdependence is an all-inclusive awareness, and the awakening to such an integral governance raises some philosophical questions.  Among the problems these questions address are from and of varying definitions of terms, relative or absolute, and causal efficacy.  To these types of concerns, Sufi mystic and author, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee states in the 2013 book, Spiritual Ecology, “Walking in a sacred manner is making a connection between your step and the heartbeat of the world."  Sanctity takes a measure of faith, and to that, homeostatic interdependence will require the assurance of equal opportunity, the substance of things hoped for, without forcing any individual obligation, the evidence of things not seen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                            References

Auletta, G.(2011-07-14). Mind and Brain (Body). In Cognitive Biology: Dealing with Information from Bacteria to Minds. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 31 Oct. 2015, from http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199608485.001.0001/acprof-9780199608485-chapter-25.

Fosshage, J. L. (2004). The explicit and implicit dance in psychoanalytic change. Journal Of Analytical Psychology, 49(1), 49-65.  EBSCOhost database.

Peter, J., & GMP LLC. (2007). Zeitgeist: The movie. S.l.: G.M.P. LLC.

Pierce, H. (2014). The Owner's Manual for the Brain (4th Edition): The Ultimate Guide to Peak Mental Performance at All Ages. HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.  Acquired from www.amazon.com

Rusbult, C. E., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2003). Interdependence, interaction, and relationships. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 351-75. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/205752843?accountid=12953

Stoekl, A. (2007). Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved October 30, 2015, from Project MUSE database.

Vatovec, C., Senier, L., & Bell, M. (2013). An Ecological Perspective on Medical Care: Environmental, Occupational, and Public Health Impacts of Medical Supply and Pharmaceutical Chains. Ecohealth, 10(3), 257-267. doi:10.1007/s10393-013-0855-1.  EBSCOhost database.

Vaughan-Lee, L. (2013). Spiritual ecology: The cry of the earth, a collection of essays.