Can we learn to unlearn aggression?

[zoobyshoe]

The guy who kills the bear instead of hanging in the cave, or moves the tribe to hopefully better ground, is the higher *risk* taker than his peers, and perhaps uses some aggression to coerce peers to help out. He then gets his risk taking genes into the next generation by further aggression against his peers competing for mates, as does in the alpha in whatever species. Granted that aggression has to have an off switch, either internal or some kind or via some point of rebellion in the members of the pack, or the pack/tribe doesn't last long.

Agression and risk taking aren't the same thing.

 

[Drakkith]

Or the less aggressive smart guy invents traps, weapons and trains semi domesticated wolves to hunt with and kills 10 bears with minimal risk and the ladies think he is more breed worthy because of it.

Perhaps the aggressive smart guys does these things instead. I don't think intelligence and aggression are directly related to each other.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Perhaps the aggressive smart guys does these things instead. I don't think intelligence and aggression are directly related to each other.

When I was in college there was a saying that I heard many times: "The more angry someone becomes, the less sense they make."

In my experience it has always proven true. I don't think it would be too hard to design a study to test it, either.

 

[Drakkith]

When I was in college there was a saying that I heard many times: "The more angry someone becomes, the less sense they make."

In my experience it has always proven true. I don't think it would be too hard to design a study to test it, either.

That's anger, not aggression.

 

[houlahound]

I don't think intelligence and aggression are directly related to each other.

perhaps not if you are talking strictly about physical aggression.

I consider it self evident that anyone pushing at the frontiers of knowledge, in particular physics, is an extreme outlier in terms of intellectual aggression starting from Giordano Bruno, Galileo...and also Darwin.

given the times these guys lived in they had nerves of steel and some serious aggressive minds and courageous hearts.

 

[Drakkith]

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[Drakkith]

perhaps not if you are talking strictly about physical aggression.

No one seems to be talking about aggression at all, nor is there such thing as intellectual aggression in this context. Please don't make up stuff when there are perfectly good definitions available, especially when they've been posted in-thread.

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