Curtiss Leung wrote:
>
> Just some data points on this: looks like there's a growing
> body of research linking abnormal brain development to child
> abuse, specially abnormalities of the amygdala and hippocampus.
>
> Google search on "amygdala child abuse":
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=amygdala+child+abuse
>
> So it seems that the debate has been resolved in a good materialist
> way: nurturing does affect children, but that's because it's a
> material phenomenon.
Another way to put this point (and those made by Miles) is that the nurture/nature debate exists only by first ripping apart a unity and then arguing forever about how to put the torn pieces back together again.
Carrol