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Supplements toProcedural AnalysisMostly Advanced Matters |
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This page is mainly for matters, subsequent to the publication of The Tyranny of Ambiguity, which remain unresolved even after that piercing investigation into human sexual behaviour, using sex differences and evolution theory as a basis. Simon G. Sheppard |
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To answer an important question: How is Procedural Analysis different to other systems of behaviour analysis? Procedural Analysis is:
The PA system is summarized in Suppressed Science 5: Procedural Analysis and detailed most rigorously in Suppressed Science 6: Game-Theoretic Models of Human Behaviour. |
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The Mental Assault is renamed back to being called the Psychic Assault, because it sounds better. |
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Some remaining questions (for Advanced Students):
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Compound BenefitA mechanism associated with Malign Encouragement needs naming. Malign Encouragement (which has not hitherto, to my knowledge, been formally defined!) is encouraging an Opponent to pursue an adverse policy. If the Protagonist also obtains benefit from the activity, this is termed Compound Benefit. Example: Jews profitably importing Negro slaves to the USA, creating a long-term problem for the white population whilst gaining financially. However in accordance with PA we need a clear sexual origin to serve as an archetype. The following, from TOA p. 451 (footnote), seems inadequate as a really definitive case but will serve as a further example. A girl is met again after an interval. Some memorable event has been shared on a previous occasion. However when this is mentioned, she claims not to remember it. In general, the female raises the costs of sex. Specifically:
That this procedure is beneficial to both the female individually and females collectively is nothing new, and consistent with the proposal that females conspire. By imposing costs on the male (e.g. Diminishment of Self; Time, as he ponders the problem afterwards) and simultaneously profiting from the procedure (certainly in terms of Information), the payoff obtained would qualify as Compound Benefit. |
Females and the Laws of NatureWhen male animals fight, they usually fight for territory. They may only fight virtually, and just posture and threaten, but it is still a struggle for dominance. The loser retreats, surrendering his claim on the territory. The point is that in nature, females come with the territory. Whoever dominates the territory also dominates, controls and mates with the females. In human society, the fact that females have intelligence and language only enables them to employ specious arguments to justify their actions, as in the case of the alien takeover of our territory. The laws of nature are paramount. Man cannot defy them. |
A Paradox SolvedA contradiction exists in that while females are more sensitive to nuances of speech and manner, they are yet easier to deceive than males. This paradox was solved by something uttered by a character in the Agatha Christie novel, Ordeal by Innocence: "There's nothing a woman won't believe if she wants to." |
Women as DucksOne day I looked out over an Amsterdam bridge to see several ducks happily floating along on a slab of polystyrene. They exploited that facility with a blissful, animal ignorance not for them the intricacies of oil drilling, petro-chemistry and manufacturing processes. They just found the floating platform, and used it. Similarly women will drive around in cars, use mobile telephones and all the other accoutrements of modern technology, unaware of how those devices work, who invented them, or who developed them. To the female, unless she is continually reminded, the object is merely an item of utility, with no appreciation of its (invariably masculine) origins. |
Orthodox PsychologyAs as afterthought it strikes me that any psychological system worthy of the name should be capable of explaining how women are able to manipulate men so successfully. This, to my knowledge, orthodox psychology notably fails to do. |
| Acknowledgements for the Magritte images which illustrate some of these pages are due to Mark Harden's Artchive, MK, CGFA and magritte.com. René Magritte disliked Freud's system of psychoanalysis intensely and I like to think that he would have approved of this application of his work. |