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General Science => General Science => Topic started by: SayWhatYouThink on 04/02/2019 02:18:39
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All our brains are made from the same material and structurally the same so how is it we all have such different personalities? How does this small piece of meat and water create such complex and different personalities?
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All our brains are made from the same material and structurally the same so how is it we all have such different personalities? How does this small piece of meat and water create such complex and different personalities?
It's extraordinarily complex, containing many billions of neurons that can be connected in a menagerie of different ways. It's also known that brain injuries can change personality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
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Nice question.
Our brains contain about 100 billion nerve cells. Each of these makes about 5000 connections to other nerve cells, and those connections are fluid: they can be changed, moulded and shaped by experience. This is, after all, how we learn. Babies are not born with a language already inside their heads, they have to learn to speak. This they do by impressing upon the blank canvas that is the newborn developing brain the patterns of behaviour that are required to comprehend and generate speech.
So, yes, our brains are, neuroanatomically, all similar, but the patterns of connections within them are all different and strongly influenced by life experiences and education; the degree to which those life experiences can affect the brain structure is also influenced by age andgenetics.
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We do not differ very much at all, but this is not governed by brain similarities. If you think about pain laughter fear sex emotional hurt happiness they all rule us. We are very very similar. If you look microscopically for the differences you will find them, but that is because you are looking for them.Its wrong to think that your brain makes your personality, if someone is born in a war zone they develop an outlook and a personality as such, conversely if they are born into the monied side of the world the personality is one that fits that. But on the grand scheme of things the human psyche is most very very similar and governed by biological alterations, such as testosterone in agression, men have more risk taking confrontational personalities that is wholly governed by a hormone !
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The difference in brain structure between boys and girls determines to some extent the development of certain intellectual factors in boys. When children are young, parents will feel this way: boys are not smart girls.
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In short, gross anatomy is not physiology or experiential conditioning. There are some common "bootstraps" like response to pain, but no reason why adult twins should have identical responses to more sophisticated stimuli.
I have the same number of arms and legs as most professional athletes, and a complete understanding of the laws of cricket and rugby, but no medals. Why not?
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Some things just have to be hard wired in advance. Breathing being one of the most important. I don't think we understand fully to what extent other things may have some hard wiring component to them. Some aspects of human development are certainly shaped in advance by the environment in the womb. This is a complex area with no simple answers.
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The difference in brain structure between boys and girls determines to some extent the development of certain intellectual factors in boys. When children are young, parents will feel this way: boys are not smart girls.
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