Finding vigilance through complex explanations for complex phenomena

Replies to comments by Guastello (see record 2014-01475-008) on the original article by the current author (see record 2012-28202-001) regarding the problem of iatrogenically created psychological phenomena. Guastello offered a sympathetic, meaningful, and potentially explanatory account of several of the issues raised in the recent article. The purpose of this reply is to evaluate his offered hypotheses and to see where this intriguing line of development might lead in terms of theoretical and practical understanding of the critical real-world capacity of vigilance. What Guastello correctly identified is that vigilance, or more correctly, the application of human sustained attention to an external task, represents one facet of what Freeman (1948) identified generally as the "energetic" dimensions of human behavioral capacity.