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> On mardi 09 déc. 08, at 14:06, Philip Pilkington wrote:
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> Frontal lobe? Prefrontal cortex? If my child spoke this kind of language
>> I'd
>> clean their mouth out with soap!
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> Talk about cause or effect...
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Why does anything happen? Especially in the human brain?
I'll put it as such:
We study brain activity - say endorphins in relation to anxiety/depression/sexual activity etc. - but how can we tell whether its this activity which triggers the neurochemical responses or vice versa?
Personally, I think its ridiculous to think that we can observe ANYTHING without taking our own perspective (i.e. expeience) into account. Thus our own activity/(past) experience gains precendence over ANY alterations in neurochemical activity. It seems to me the only coherent epistemology...
It also allows for the rather pressing fact that psychopathology shifts both in degrees and quantities under different social conditions... also allowing for a certain amount of responsibility and, hence, freedom...