A brain scan can reveal a person’s political leaning with like 80% accuracy, and I can’t stress enough how crazy that number is, the remaining 20% usually just aren’t political or in the middle.
It’s done by looking at the size/activity of the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.
A conservative will have more amygdala activity, which is our flight or fight response.
A progressive will have a larger preferential cortex, the part that gives us logic and empathy.
It’s always important to mention that this isn’t permanent, our brains are like muscles, use certain parts and they get more active and even physically larger (but obviously on a small scale).
We know that because there’s been studies on London taxi drivers. Before training their brains are normal. But since they have to memorize every street in London, by the time they’re certified there’s a noticable difference in the part of the brain that handles navigation.
So it’s not like theyre a lost cause.
And why republican leaders are so hell vent on removing “liberal arts” from schools. The people leading aren’t idiots, they’re trying to make more conservatives
You’re talking about arguing in good faith when your response to his comment about neural plasticity was “BUT WHAT ABOUT PTSD! CHECKMATE” as though you caught him in a gotcha moment and were so excited to dunk on him you forgot what the argument was even about z.
PTSD has nothing to do with the discussion. So all I can glean for this interaction is that you wanted to fight so you could get pissy and block someone.
just need to preserve this line because its so spot on
There’s actually science behind it.
A brain scan can reveal a person’s political leaning with like 80% accuracy, and I can’t stress enough how crazy that number is, the remaining 20% usually just aren’t political or in the middle.
It’s done by looking at the size/activity of the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.
A conservative will have more amygdala activity, which is our flight or fight response.
A progressive will have a larger preferential cortex, the part that gives us logic and empathy.
It’s always important to mention that this isn’t permanent, our brains are like muscles, use certain parts and they get more active and even physically larger (but obviously on a small scale).
We know that because there’s been studies on London taxi drivers. Before training their brains are normal. But since they have to memorize every street in London, by the time they’re certified there’s a noticable difference in the part of the brain that handles navigation.
So it’s not like theyre a lost cause.
And why republican leaders are so hell vent on removing “liberal arts” from schools. The people leading aren’t idiots, they’re trying to make more conservatives
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That’s nothing to do with it…
You could just as well ask how it accounts for penguins riding unicycles.
The only brain change with PTSD is the hippocampus, they’ve explicitly looked for changes to the amygdala and there isn’t any.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3647246/
If you want to split hairs, there is a statistically insignificant change, but that makes it smaller.
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Maybe you should have explicitly stated your point?
And I don’t see anything in your link about subsequent changes to size or activity of the prefrontal cortex due to PTSD.
Although I admittedly just skimmed it.
So if that links backs up your argument (whatever that was) please link the relevant part.
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Soooo…if you blocked him, how is he going to come back when he’s willing to talk? Lol.
I know right? I wouldn’t think “blocked” could get any more cringe, but here we are.
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You’re talking about arguing in good faith when your response to his comment about neural plasticity was “BUT WHAT ABOUT PTSD! CHECKMATE” as though you caught him in a gotcha moment and were so excited to dunk on him you forgot what the argument was even about z.
PTSD has nothing to do with the discussion. So all I can glean for this interaction is that you wanted to fight so you could get pissy and block someone.
Sound about right? Honestly idc. Blocked.
Oh ok, so that was just a random article you didn’t read first, and it had nothing to do with what was being talked about…
It does help that everytime I mention this stuff, there’s someone champing at the bit to give the class an example.
You’ve unironically helped me out a lot, thanks!