Neuroscience it the best science ever and you cannot tell me otherwise wise
It affects the larger world so largley!!
Who that was a shit comparison but whatever
It involves math, pyschics, systems, CODING SOMEHOW??, computer science, behavioral science, psychology, calculus, theoretical math (my love), philosophy, AND SO MUCH MORE. Its a true interdisciplinary science in my eyes and gives you so many options for how you wanna study it. Brains sit in our skulls and we refer to ourselves as something other than what we are which is just a jumble of nuerons stuffed in a fleshy stress ball that is one of the most fragile parts of human anatomy. So much so gou cant even hold a organic brain, no chemicals or preservatives, for more than 5 minutes with out your hand being imprinted into that brain FOREVER.
I will become a neuroscientist and there isnt anything you can do to stop me
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Does Your Fear Guide You in Your Discovery of Identity?
I find the neurobiological response to fear so incredibly intriguing, especially seeing what things affect individuals versus others. There's such a wide variety to choose from- just search up any old list of phobias on the internet and you'll clearly see that.Â
It’s fundamental, a deeply wired reaction in our bodies, evolved over the history of life as we know it in order to protect organisms against perceived threat to their integrity of existence.
The amygdala and hippocampus are mostly responsible– the hippocampus processing the perceived threat, and the amygdala givinging that adrenaline rush that we all crave so desperately. This high arousal state can be both from fear or excitement. I don't think it's that much of a leap to suggest that fear and excitement are both connected and therefore can both derive satisfaction.Â
More importantly, fear can actually help aid your memory. This is of course only to a certain extent, as prolonged distress of high quantities can actually lead to memory loss in self protection, but I would like to theorize for a moment that the reason that so many of those that have contacted me so far, have had memories after viewing the more high tension scenes from their source material is because of the stress neurotransmitter norepinephrine, promoting the formation of fear based memories by stimulating inhibitory neurons in the amygdala while we are so engrossed in the content.Â
The fear feels familiar because it is. It's been living dormant inside you all along. That being said, I would like to inquire about the most distressing moment for you when viewing your own source material? How did it relate to your identity, and did it lead to memories related to said scene afterwards?Â
The fascinating complexities of the human mind are so perplexing to attempt to comprehend. I wish I could instantly understand the why and how of all my emotions and endless streams of jumbled thoughts, but that goal is forever out of reach
Look idk if it's scientifically proven and it's funny that people take to extremes.
Consider the possibilty of a limited will. We are free to chose some things and others we are bound to do or not do. In a scientific sense because we are genetically predisposed to certain behaviors, and in a religious sense in that we all err and do terrible things we know are wrong and hurtful--and that we can be aware of these errors and seek to be better.
We can't choose to be perfect, to know everything, or have certain personality traits with no prior explanation.
In a religious sense this explains the wonder of grace, that can change a person without an action initiated by a person (though a person can be liberated to make good choices after this grace or awareness of something greater is in effect)
In a scientific sense, this how people are controlled by circumstances internal and external, and if they can't be emotionally aware, end up falling prey to their nature rather than doing the things they want to do.
Moral of the story: the conscience is there in your head for a reason, whether you're religious or not.
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I had a realisation about ethics/morals and historical evil today
Because, okay. Most of you have probably heard the (I think important to the overall discussion) argument that, morality is based in culture, and we can’t properly/exactly critisise people of The Past because they grew up in cultures that allowed/encouraged terrible things, right?
It’s the argument that says, people of The Past are exactly the same as you and if we time-traveled you back to Then as a baby you would grow up exactly as horrible, you would never spontaneously realise all on your own that Thing X Is Wrong. Because morality isn’t intrinsic, we don’t have an inborn sense of Right and Wrong that has evolved from that of our ancestors and makes us More Right Than Them By Biology, or whatever.Â
Right?
And I do think that’s true. I think if you put baby!Sia back in, I don’t know, literally any time period ever, and I grew up there, I would probably never think twice about stuff that modern!not-baby!Sia would find horrifying.
But if it was true that people only ever believe what their culture tells them to (and therefore can’t be properly blamed for it, exactly) - if that was true then society would literally never have changed ever??? We would still have the same systems of morals/ethics that we did thousands and thousands of years ago?
(The rest is under a cut for discussion of slavery and other Unarguably Evil Things)
I mean - let’s look at slavery. I think we can all unequivocally agree that that was a super horrifying evil (one that humanity is unfortunately not over, see: modern human trafficking etc). Bearing in mind that I’m a white woman, let’s specifically look at the slavery of black people by whites, historically.
Now - I got taught that slavery was Super Wrong, but it’s kind of historically/philosophically difficult to call those Past Times white people evil because if you grew up in that culture it’s normalised, and they therefore can’t exactly be blamed for what they did.
Like. They can and should be blamed, and it was evil. But, my philosophy and ethics professors told me, while the act can be evil it’s difficult to call a person evil if they don’t know what they’re doing is wrong.
Which is...an argument that has always rubbed me the wrong way, but I could never verbalise why until it hit me today: because somebody (in this case, some white person/people) DID figure out it was wrong.
Even though they lived during that time.
Even though they lived in a culture that said it was totally fine and even a (excuse me while I vomit) good thing.
Even then, they were able to ~spontaneously~ realise slavery was Very Very Wrong.
So if SOME people were able to realise these things were evil, even when raised and living within a culture that normalised them...if it’s at all possible for people to realise aspects of their culture or behavior are evil and wrong (which it clearly is, or nothing would ever change because no one would ever realise things need changing and we’d still be...well, doing a lot of the shit that humans still do actually, but are now at least denounced by the majority of us?)Â
...Then how can you excuse anyone who didn’t realise?Â
I think this applies to any human evil, historical or modern. I think the fact that, in every generation, in every community on earth, there are some people who look at Thing X and realise ‘this is immoral and must be stopped at once’...I mean, those people aren’t genetically different to the rest of us. They have the same brains. They presumably have the same number of mirror neurons (which are what allow us to feel empathy, as I understand it). There’s no physiological difference between someone who realises the thing is wrong and someone who doesn’t.
So if everyone has the potential ability to realise their culture, or they themselves, are doing/have done something awful... Then actually, no, you don’t get a pass on not realising. Because you could have, but you didn’t. And that can only be on you.
(This is even more true today, where very few of us are raised so isolated that we are not exposed to multiple points of view via the media/the internet/books/other children/our teachers etc, and therefore don’t even have the not-actually-an excuse of ‘no one ever told me different’. Our modern ‘culture’ isn’t nearly so homogeneous as it was for various historical groups, we’re exposed to all kinds of views and/or all kinds of evidence that contradicts the views of our parents/teachers. If you don’t see it/take it in/learn it, then actually there is no one to blame but yourself.)
