KEN RUEGG
VICTIMIZED BY MILLIONS
ADDING COMPONENTS - MENTAL SPECIATION AS ADVANCEMENT TO GREATER COMPLEXITY OF ORGANIZATION
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          MIND CONSISTING of ID, EGO, AND SUPEREGO, is a species MORE ADVANCED THAN, and DIFFERENT FROM, MIND CONSISTING merely of ID, AND EGO.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          JEAN PIAGET'S OBSERVATIONS OF LEARNING in humans, are consistent with the concept of successive stages of this sort.                                                                                                                                                                                     MENTAL SPECIATION IN STAGES INVOLVES THE ADDITION OF NEW COMPONENTS OF MIND, RESULTING IN ADVANCES IN COMPLEXITY OF ORGANIZATION.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             SUCCESSIVE COMPONENTS ARE LEARNED IN SUCCESSIVE STAGES, ONE COMPONENT FOR EACH STAGE.                                                                                                                                                                                             GREATER COMPLEXITY OF ORGANIZATION, RESULTING FROM THE LEARNING OF ADDITIONAL COMPONENTS, DETERMINES STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION NOT ONLY MORE ADVANCED THAN, AND DIFFERENT FROM, BUT ALSO INCLUSIVE OF, AND MODIFYING, THAT WHICH PRECEDES IT.                                                                                                                                                        SUCCESSIVE STAGES OF LEARNING IN INDIVIDUAL HUMANS, DUPLICATE STAGES OF THE MENTAL EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN RACE, BOTH OF MAN HIMSELF, AND OF HIS ANCESTORS, THE GREAT APES.                                                                                                                                                                     NOT ALL HUMANS ACHIEVE THE SAME STAGES OF LEARNING AT ANY POINT IN TIME.                                                                                                                                                                               Note that minds lacking superego (conscience), such absence being typical of humans in The State of Nature, and necessary to their survival in that state, are at a previous stage in Man's evolution of mind. Many individuals today do not learn the next stage, which is appropriate to humans in society: CONSCIENCE is a product of Civilization.                                                                                                                                                      Criminals lack conscience, and therefore use the violent, aggressive energy of the "id", inherited from the Great Apes, to victimize others. Non-criminals have learned conscience, and modify the use of the same aggressive energy to achieve constructive goals, such behavior being consistent with life in Civilization.                                                                                                                                                                                   See "ON SANITY AND CIVILIZATION: Why the easy way out fails", and "WHY CRIMINALS ARE HUNTER-GATHERERS", under "home"; and "Advancement as Intrinsic to Evolution", and "INTELLIGENCE AND MATHEMATICS", under "contact".