Message from @robxtom
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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
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?
I would rather unanswered questions than for anyone to be horrible with dogs. I prefer dogs over humans most of the time 😊
> 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 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
@Beth Kid A has a strong cerebellum, good balance and coordination. Kid B has a weak cerebellum, terrible at balance and coordination. Kid A has a weak frontal lobe (responsible for deductive thinking). Kid B has a strong frontal lobe.
Kid A will be into sports, kid B into reading.