Re: brain study: liberals think differently than conservatives

[Gassler Robert <rsgassle@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wonder what kind of study they could do in Belgium, where there are two sets of political parties (Francophone and Flemish) whose differences cannot always be put on a left-right spectrum. And whose spectrum goes way beyond liberal and conservative.


>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
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