Just look - no blog for many weeks, no excuse either. Plenty of thoughts go through my mind - too many to put into words, let alone action. Right brain. Left brain. Frontal lobe. All human thoughts go back and forth and perhaps over and under, who knows? The riddle is being solved - at least better understood. A great deal of research is being done and many papers being written. Brain imaging and other technologies show what part of the brain is activated with different types of stimulation. I am aware of as many real researchers who faithfully document brain activity as those who research with the intent to prove a point they assume beforehand. No real science there, but it takes a hard nosed skeptic to look into what is written. Like an article I found recently about human nature - concerned that social science is segregated from biology. As if biology is not complete without the social element. What I gleaned from the author's logic is that gender differences occur from conception and that gender preferences are apparent in Vervet monkeys as regards to toys chosen by males and females - males chose weapons and females chose dolls. There was no indication of how many monkey young were involved or how young they were or what kind of toys or how they were offered. There was such convoluted information about how animals conduct their lives according to the political structure under which they live that social science must be integrated with biology to get the true picture of individuals. (Not to say that organisms do survive only if they can reproduce in any given habitat.) You see, articles such as this foolishness concern me. I expect a biologist to study cell structure and genetics to find answers to what happens when a nut falls into a gear shift, not that a female is different from a male because society makes it so. And this is just a blog, one of hundreds placed in hyper space to inform or confound the unsuspecting surfer. |
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