Stroking the Zebra?

About the Book

This document is a methodology for trying to understand how I think and why I think as I do. My thinking process is premise based. I operate on the premise that evolutional genetic traits have more or less programmed the basic capabilities and limitations of the starting (initial) conditions of my particular “Human Nature.”
From this point – considering the environmental conditions from conception through embryology – all internal ->external responses are learned – given full consideration to the capabilities and limitations mentioned above, of my personal “Human Nature.”
I also operate; in the philosophical mode – which I try to maintain at all times, on the premise that I am finite. Being finite limits the data available for making absolute, truthful observations, and therefore decisions. This being the case, I cannot believe or disbelieve anything.
Knowing that one cannot function in this limbo, I have formulated premises that I live by. They are somewhat found depending on new data or current situations. Because of this, I find that my premises are sometimes conflicting and contrary to one another. That is just the way it is. I live with it.
Author's thought after the fact, shades of Aristotle, Platos, Socrates, Descartes, Spinoza, Hegel, and Peirce, but more primitive, juvenile and sophomoric. But isn't that when we start to realize who we are?
A basic primer on how to think.

About the Author

Born in the middle of the Depression, a jack of all trades before dropping out of high school in 1950 to join the Navy for 4 years. Graduated from high school and had the opportunity to accept a scholarhip to MIT or the US Coast Guard Academy, but did not accept. Did 5 years in civilian life picking up more trades before going into the Air Force for 7 years. Went to college in the 70's, and joined the Mensa Society in the 80's. A 15-year career with computer language research in Carrollton, TX, retiring in 1992. Now living in a primitive camp in North Texas High Country.