K C Cheng <kccheng at postoffice.idirect.com> wrote:
>tael wrote:
>>>> I was wondering if anyone could evaluate my hypothesis that:
>>>> Our
whose
>> psychology
in the meaning of Western psychology or the psyche or emotions or
what?
>>is the outcome of interaction between the basic drives
>> from the paleomammalian (limbic mid-brain)
>and reptillian (lower brain
>> core) system,
I am not that good in neurology. Does a reptile have no hippocampus?
Is the hippocampus of the limbic system?
Why do you not discern between the different areas of the amygdala and
the cholinergic areas?
Nor between other systems?
Or (excuse me):
B.s.
>which are hardwired from birth, and the degree to which
>> our cerebral cortex learns its stucture (becomes mylinated) from the
>> stimulus of social processes.
>>>> btw, do you know of any books that argue along these lines?
>>>> TY,
>>>> jonny walker
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>Re the above: I dare not say that I could "evaluate" your
>hypothesis. However, may I suggest that our psychology, though in many
>ways dependent on interneuronal interactions, is a function mainly of
>one's memory input and conscious selection of what are desirable traits
>to us.
Nonsense.
If you think loneliness, rank emotion and the like are memory inputs
or consious selections of desirable traits then you do not understand
the human mind much.
>Myelination itself is merely an anatomical event to make our neural network more
>efficient, having nothing to do with our memory content and therefore
>what personality we have.
Let me guess, we'd have the same personality if the singals would
spread and be received the way they would without myelin...
> Of course, as said, the basic neuronal properties do to a large extent determine some of our basic personality
>traits which are physilogical, not psychological in nature, e.g.
>explosive personality, i.e. temperaments, sex drives, etc.
> But outside of these basic physiological traits, our personality
>traits depend almost entirely on learning(memory input) and "freedom of
>choice" to design our own personality traits. And, as we all know,
>lots of our "instincts" can be wilfully modified, particularly since
>young, to within socially acceptable limits.
>http://webhome.idirect.com/~kccheng
You understand little about the mind.
You do not discern emotions according to sectors, hormones, etc., yuo
seem unaware of genetic and pregnancy influence and educational
influence, yoiu are unaware of brain wave influence, with instincts
with a lot of them I doubt that yu even understand them well nor
understand what modifying some of them can have for negative effects,
etc.
