@Beth you were exposed to your data as a phoetus, and then for 10 months. After that you were exposed to the impression your dad left in your mom. All that data early in life will effect you.

Brains are physical. You can't play COD on a Commodore 64.

@Beth You can also inherit different growth genes for different areas of the brain, creating what is called "biological affordances". Your brain will seek to resolve the same problem based in its capacity, and if that capacity is similar to your dads, you end up with the same sort of solutions.

Ahh now I understand! Took a few minutes 🙈😂

For instance, if you have a mediocre cerebellum, many sports are ruled out. If you at the same time have a strong frontal cortex, mental exercises will be an affordance. As they result in progress. Therefore traits are often shared, due to the different capacities of the brains involved.

The brain can be a rather confusing subject

Absolutely.

Excluding plasticity, which I don't understand.

The brain is one of the things we still don't really fully understand.

I can english.

Lmao

Plasticity just means that it’s changing and influenced by nature

The connections between neurons change

The human brain as little more than a blank desk without the operating system also known as culture.

Maybe they gain new sites or change intensity of signal

Not even a century ago the USSR was doing horrible things to dogs to study the brain, even still, it has a lot of unanswered questions.

There’s a book abt it called plastic? I think idk it’s new

@robxtom, you just advanced to level 3!

Understanding how it works is one thing. People want to be able to tinker with it to an end, like a heart or intestine.

Is it possible to have thoughts without language?

True no one knows enough abt it yet to do that w any accuracy. It’d be observational. Do this see what happens

Yes.

Yeah

I don’t think in language all the time

Most of the time

If a tree falls in the woods and no one's there to hear it does make a sound?@robxtom

Do you need to explain to yourself in a monologue every time your hungry?

Is hunger a Feeling? And I'm hungry I thought?

@Beth let me know if I can explain better.

I would rather unanswered questions than for anyone to be horrible with dogs. I prefer dogs over humans most of the time 😊

@Beth Absolutely.

> Is it possible to have thoughts without language?
@busillis Steven Pinker wrote a great piece about that. If I recall correctly, he contends you have an internal grammar for processing, not necessarily language per se. He would probably shoot me for my facile understanding.

I don’t know what a cerebellum is but other than that I think I understand

@Beth Agreed. The more I learn about people, the more I love dogs.

@Beth small brain, responsible for such things as coordination and balance.

Yes

How can someone not like the most loyal creatures around?

When it's so much harder to trust humans.

Food for thought!

I have two of pinkers books I have to read still

That is where I have difficulties in life.. I’m one of those people who always gets attached/stuck to a door knob etc