Personality traits probed in high-res brain scans

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    Lowly

    This kind of stuff- all cognitive research and DNA also- is both really frightening and also unsettling. Like fortune telling it can really lead to self - fulfilling prophecies: You are this way so therefore you do this., and then you can't escape from that and you become that.

    Also very culturall biased- What is the basis for creating this or that category? Or putting someone in it? What is the basis for judging a behavior as good/ helpful/ desirable? Or the opposite?

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    Frungy

    It will enable “the scientific community to immediately begin exploring relationships between brain circuits and individual behavior,” he said.

    Hahahahahahahaha!! Good luck with that. The average human brain contains about 200 000 000 000 nerve cells, and simple mathematics shows that amounts to 40 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 different ways they might connect...

    Add to this the fact that neural connections (brain circuits) are NOT the whole story, the brain has an incredibly complex chemical component as well, which influences the manner in which the neural connections function.

    Well done, they've mapped the system, but failed to take into account critical chemical variables (amongst other factors) and have announced this a victory? A flawed model is WORSE than no model.

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