PMID: 8583959May 1, 1995Paper

The biology of deception: the evolution of cognitive coping as a denial-like process

Medical Hypotheses
G B Stefano, G L Fricchione

Abstract

We speculate that the development of cognitive processes provided such endowed animals with an additional coping strategy in dealing with stress. This ability depends on a unifying consciousness appearing to control or regulate the many individual processes that potentially summate to make up the mind. Without this unifying component, the significance and uniqueness of this coping strategy would be lost. The cognitive mind would also have to develop, of course by chance, a strong bias to believe in a highly organized world, since this is what would have survival value within one lifetime. This sense of unity as a coping strategy is really a deception or illusion, in that it imposes perceived order. Thus, the biology of deception has been an important development leading to man as a cognitive creative being. Our premise here extends this notion and suggests that denial-like processes are at the core of the cognitive coping mechanisms we have evolved as humans.

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Mar 14, 2001·Brain Research. Brain Research Reviews·G B StefanoH Benson
Oct 1, 2015·Medical Science Monitor Basic Research·Agata Graczynska, George B Stefano
Nov 17, 2009·CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics·George B Stefano, Richard M Kream
Aug 1, 1995·Medical Hypotheses·G B Stefano, G L Fricchione
Sep 13, 2007·Forschende Komplementärmedizin = Research in Complementary Medicine·Tobias Esch, George B Stefano

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