Re: brain study: liberals think differently than conservatives

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
On Sep 11, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Jim Devine wrote:

> By the way, the valid, dialectical, kind of maintenance of "two
> contradictory ideas" simultaneously represents a strong ability to
> resist the unease arising from cognitive dissonance.

Doyle;
That sounds like Sartre on nausea or anxiety at nothingness.  The
problem with a speculation about holding contradictions in mind is most
of this is said outside of knowing what the brain does.  For example,
To some degree the brain has a bunch of patches laid out in various
areas.  It's sort of established the frontal cortex can tap into
patches elsewhere to 'think'.  So where are these contradictions
housed?

The patches of brain real estate operate so that knowledge passes
through them altering the connections so that patterns are the most
likely thing thought.  A patch can respond to a plethora of patterns.
Is a contradiction a specific descriptions of these patches put
together in the frontal lobe?  It's an abstraction at best by Orwell
about 'think'.

We can understand some verbal statement contradicts someone else's
statement.  But I suspect anything about thinking from Orwell is just
hot air.
Doyle