Yowzers.....great post. I find this science fascinating. If it's truly repeatable and the results become accepted, then this is truly interesting and useful stuff.....and so what if some people don't like the results. I'm not interested in placating liberals and conservatives, but if we had some scientific way of understanding how and why they think the way they do, then yeah, that definitely interests me for all the reasons Larry mentions.
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > > You still don't get it. > > I find it fascinating that such a simple difference has such low level > causality. You can make the same approximate profiles for liberals and > conservatives without the reference to the neurophysiology and still > come up with the same conclusions based on non physical measures. > Multiple lines of very different research (cognitive psych, > neurophysiology, personality and social psychology) are pointing in > the same direction. Fairly soon we will be able to figure out the > predictiveness of this research and transform it from a science to > engineering. > > With the basic differences in brain structure though it has all sorts > of implications, going all the way to nature vs nurture and what is > the train of influence from a slightly enlarged right amygdala to > being a tea party member. Or a greater tolerance for ambiguity and > slightly more active Anterior Cyngulate Gyrus to becoming a radical > socialist. It also has implications on political messagiing - or may > help explain why certain messages work better with some people than > others.It also serves to partially explain why progressives and > conservatives tend to talk past each other. It also points to how the > different political viewpoints may be able to colonize the future. If > that implication doesn't concern you, it should. Do you want Karl > Rove, Grover Norquist, Ram Emmanual or Richard Trumka using this > research to fix the future and mold it to what they would only dream > of. If we don't have a good understanding of how these influences work > we will be victimized by those using these results in the future. With > an understanding of how these mechanisms work we can do the equivalent > of inoculating people so that their choices are genuinely theirs and > not a result of subtle manipulation. > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> The discussion section in the article is very interesting and how they > >> interpret the results: > > > > > > I know you hate conservatives Larry, you don't have anything more to > prove > > there. > > > > -Cameron > > > > ... > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:359213 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
