Amergent

In a natural-biological environment our working memory is flooded with benign cues which prevent trauma cues from activating, reinforcing and prevailing. The human perceptual-cognitive-emotional system evolved in a specific environment - in rich biological nature, not in the artificial structures of civilisation. Unnatural or poorly designed physical environments or social organisations lead to high levels of mental ill health and it is why forest bathing, sitting around a campfire, living without tech of all kinds, makes us all feel a lot better.  When we take humans out of nature, mental-emotional ill health increases. This is very much Sigmund Freud's Civilisation and Its Discontents . The core channel through which mental dis-ease develops and through which it can be ameliorated is based in the automatic perception and working memory attention capture process . Perception of natural biological phenomena has a strong element of evolutionary based encoding. We have programming wh...