Re: less sex, more brains!

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 02:51:53 MDT


On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 07:35:08PM -0700, Olga Bourlin wrote:
>
> In any case, I don't think there is much in the way of corroboration for the
> sex-and-violence duo. In fact, violence often reigns in many sexually
> repressed societies. And in some movies from our past (U.S.) - have you
> ever noticed how violence is often substituted FOR sex (e.g., the Friday the
> 13th series). On a related note, the Meese Commission Report (1983)
> couldn't find (they tried, they tried...) any causal link between sexually
> explicit materials and violence.

It seems that the different "drivers" in hypothalamus act as a kind of
subsumption architecture: they inhibit each other, and have a
more-or-less fixed hierarchy. Aggression trumps hunger and thirst, which
trumps sex which trumps exploration. Makes a lot of behavioral sense,
althought I'm sure we humans are able to learn or create odd cross-links
between them.

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