Greetings Economists, On Sep 11, 2007, at 9:21 PM, Gassler Robert wrote:
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.
Doyle; I think this is an especially pertinent remark. The patches shown in MRI are just color blobs of space lit up with nerve cell group activity in the brain. As are other methods of recording brain activity. No resolution of individual cells or time in nerve cell terms. Some African languages tap into a sense of balance. Western languages recognize five senses, so a language that reflects the other human senses would look different on MRI images as well. Language differences in any case would show up as different patterns of lit patches. This would force a question, what exactly is the language part of what we see. While Western or European languages don't recognize balance as a sense, people still balance themselves, their brains would show that activity. Your question points to the fatal flaw in the studies. If a liberal 'thinks' different from a conservative, and all we know about that is 'language' what exactly is language in these images? They don't know, so how can they say ...X Y Z? Doyle
