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Post by brandt on Feb 16, 2012 8:44:25 GMT 10
An interesting question and something for me to do over the summer perhaps. Why are some memes captured and perpetuated while others are not?
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Post by lanoo on Feb 16, 2012 16:23:44 GMT 10
"When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell." Like computer viruses too.
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Post by Smithee on Jun 12, 2012 15:11:57 GMT 10
UNLEARNING Learning establishes neuro connections and pathways which are expressed as habits and memories. Sometimes old habits and memories are barriers to new learning so those connections need to be erased. Oxytocin is a neuromodulator usually associated with bonding relationships and it has also been suggested to be associated with outgroup identification. However simplistic hormonal determinism which assumes it is central to the process of learning misses the point that it is the production of Oxytocin which is stimulated by new learning and serves as an cognitive eraser rather than as neurological stylus. This process is for the brain similar to the general anatomical process called programmed cell death. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmed_cell_deathAcquiring Tastes and Loves What Neuroplasticity Teaches Us _About Sexual Attraction and Love Read more at www.recoverypath.ca/UserFiles/File/Acquring%20tastes.pdfNeurohumoral Brain Dynamics of Social Group Formation Read more at sulcus.berkeley.edu/freemanwww/manuscripts/V2/97.html
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Post by Smithee on Jun 12, 2012 15:23:54 GMT 10
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Post by Smithee on Jun 13, 2012 11:54:31 GMT 10
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Post by Smithee on Mar 23, 2013 21:42:08 GMT 10
Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic Philip Zimbardo American professor of psychology (Stanford Prison Study) (Born this day 1933)
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Post by Smithee on Mar 29, 2013 18:50:28 GMT 10
The conduct and actions of every individual are dependent upon the character, manners, and modes of thought of the nation to which he belongs. These again are, to a certain extent, the necessary product of external circumstances under which they live and have grown up Ludwig Büchner (Born this day 1924)
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Post by Tamrin on May 12, 2013 7:28:35 GMT 10
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. - Mary Wollstonecraft Evolutionary psychology and the nature-nurture debate.Reads more at andyhammondphd.wordpress.com/tag/evolutionary-psychology/
Seems to be a typical strategy. A devotee tries to use Jedi mind tricks on an uninformed audience by asserting so-called Evolutionary Psychology is solid science, beyond doubt. When very real doubts are raised it is conceded to be a controversial field but that there is heaps of proof. When that proof is requested or what is said to be evidence is challenged the devotee turns to personal attack and the challenger is accused of being a creationist and having a political agenda. When the challenger persists in their scepticism the devotee spits the dummy and goes in search of another uninformed audience.Only one side of the "controversy" is supported by evidence which has withstood scrutiny.
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 2, 2013 7:11:32 GMT 10
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom
Viktor Frankl (Died this day 1997)
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 23, 2013 8:28:31 GMT 10
You've Got To Be Carefully Taught (South Pacific)
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