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[HydrogenBond]

The Colorado River basin begins in the Rocky Mountains and works it way through the Southwest USA and ends in Mexico-California. About 2/3 of the water is used for farming, while the other 1/3 is used for cities and the plants that grow along the river. By the time is reaches it final destination it is a stream in a once mighty river bed.

This is actually a good analogy for modern human instincts, with the original potential in the DNA and firmware flowing like the original river basin, which flows into the software and canals of culture, until the final instinctive effect is only a small fraction of the original potential. This allows willpower, since the natural impulse is smaller and more controllable due to the preemptive satisfaction of the potential. The potential is also being used to do other useful things within culture.

I would like to add another landscape feature that has an impact on the DNA rivers of natural instincts. It has to do with dams. The effect of a dam on instinct, will be dependent on the neural geology through which the the river of instinct flows. If a river is flowing through a plain, a dam will cause the river to split. If the river is in a valley, a dam will cause the river to back up into a lake. From this lake one can get hydroelectric power, using the potential or pressure head of the river further, upstream.

As an example of the shallow terrain and dam consider subjective laws of good and evil, which lack explanations. If we look at natural hunger, because humans are omnivores, whatever satisfies the natural hunger potential faster will be learned and become part of the software that is connected to the firmware. There are a lot of options available.

With subjective laws of good and evil, there is a dam set up with respect to all these natural choices, because now A, B and C are good, while D, E, and F are evil. Everyone can't just follow the singular flow of the instinctive firmware, but will hit the cultural dam and have to chose between two streams, with the split in the river allowing flow in both directions.

If one so happens to have developed natural software, that instinctively leads to A, B and C or the good stream, you get sort of a double pat on the back, due to satisfying the instinct and culture at the same time. If you dislike what is offered in the good stream, the pat on the back may or may not allow you to break even. If the kick of culture, for going down the bad stream, doesn't hurt that much, and D,E and F on the evil path gives more instinctive satisfaction, one may chose the bad stream. Culture may have to crank up the heat until the heat is stronger than this latter instinctive satisfaction.

One possible way to avoid people going down the bad stream, is when they reach the law dam and come to the split in the river, we add a dam to the bad stream, such as punishment, guilt and shame. This should cause the flow to favor the good stream or will it? Since the river is in a shallow plain, the dam on the bad stream will back up the bad water, until it will eventually merge with the good water, until good and bad water flow down the good stream.

A classic example were the Salem witch hunts. Being a witch was subjectively considered a boat ride down the bad river. The prevent this we set up a dam or punishment, until it was good to torture the witches, because the merging of the bad river with the good river, was flowing down the good stream, according to culture, so it was good. This is the historical problem with the binarius river split.

But not all laws use the shallow subjective terrains of subjective laws. There are some law dams that are built in valleys, which can create hydroelectric power by bottling up instinct into a lake, tapping into potential. With this type of law there is no split in the stream, but a lake will form.

As an example of the contrast, if I arbitrarily said you can't eat clams, without any explanation; that is the new law obey or be punished, I will cause a split because the mental landscape is too shallow because it seems totally subjective. If instead I said, you can't eat clams because of the red tide. The bacteria in the red tide will make you sick and you could die. This is deeper terrain. I am not going to punish you, if you eat clams, you will punish yourself. There is no back flow of bad into the good river of culture, which is a good barometer of the type of terrain given laws are using.

The elevation (deeper rational explanation), will set up a dam in the mind of those who like clams. A lake will form in their mind, until an alternative software habit begins to form to release the potential. Those who still eat clams are helped in hospitals and not beat up or their property seized like with shallow terrain. The lesson of hard knocks builds their dam in high terrain, from which they learn new habits because it renews the contact with the hydrodynamics of the firmware.