We commented earlier that in bio-survival neurology, there is no time. “I just found myself doing it,” we say after passing through an automatic reflex on the bio-survival circuit. Emotional-territorial circuit actions begin to include time as a factor. Dominance signals may not “work”: the seemingly weaker mammal may offer a counter-challenge. Two dogs will walk around each other for several minutes growling and sniffing (the chemical secretions of each reveals its actual degree of fear to the other) before Top Dog and Bottom Dog becomes clear. On the human level, we often agonize over
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