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Thread ID: 9300 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2003-08-26
2003-08-26 09:23 | User Profile
The following is from [url=http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/LLH.htm]http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/LLH.htm[/url]
Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are. 2002 by Steven R. Quartz and Terrence J. Sejnowski
Reviewed by Matt Nuenke - July 2003 - www.neoeugenics.com
Quartz and Sejnowski have written a book that is filled with an eclectic set of observations and notions about how culture shapes who we are - that we are not fixed at birth by our genes. It starts out quite interesting, but later on, it tends to drift into wishful thinking about human nature, perhaps because they really do not have that much to say that is new. Nonetheless, there are some interesting, if disjointed points they try to make, making for an interesting critique of their assertions.
[Q&S] "Although the function of area 10 [in the brain] remains mysterious, as we examine in more detail in chapter 6, damage to area 10 impairs an awareness of one's self. Perhaps, then, the expansion and reorganization of area 10 during human evolution led to our capacity to generate a sense of self, a possibility we will pursue throughout this book."
"Developing a sense of self is a protracted process, requiring long exposure to the social world. Yet it is absolutely essential to human life, for we require a sense of self to navigate the complex social worlds we inhabit. Doing so endows us with the capacity for flexible behavior, as we update our behavior to accommodate rapid social changes. We were intrigued by the fact that the prefrontal cortex is the last part of our brain to mature during development, not reaching its full function until after puberty. Perhaps we literally build our sense of self as our human culture helps to build our prefrontal cortex. If this were so, then our mind would be supremely flexible not because it has somehow unfettered itself from our biology, but because of our biology. As counterintuitive as it may seem, the more we learn about the brain, the more we realize that its rich interaction with the world is the key to understanding our complex mental life and intelligence."
Throughout this book, the assertion is made in a sublime manner, that with the right cultural inputs, we can all develop into unique selves. Hidden beneath this is really a hope that culture can remake our human nature, and that once again we can be freed from our genes. At least that is the feeling I get from this book.
Complete article is at [url=http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/LLH.htm]http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/LLH.htm[/url]
2003-08-27 00:43 | User Profile
"Developing a sense of self is a protracted process, requiring long exposure to the social world. "
Anyone with a memory knows that this is nonsense. By the age of three, not only are you who you are, but you know who you are. I have friends and cousins whom I have known all my life. I knew them when they were three or four, and I know them now that they are 58 or 59. They are the same. Exactly the same. The same personality, the same self sense, mostly the same attitudes, the same.
Enkidu
2003-08-27 01:14 | User Profile
Nonsense is an appropriate characterization for the most material that the poster formerly known as Ares has been posting.
2003-08-27 08:19 | User Profile
*Originally posted by madrussian@Aug 26 2003, 19:14 * ** Nonsense is an appropriate characterization for the most material that the poster formerly known as Ares has been posting. **
Dear moron,
Matt Nuenke was QUOTING the Jews from the book claiming that environment plays a bigger part than genes. Then he rebutts the excerpts with other research.
Learn to read, then give this forum a try again.
Regards,
White Nationalist