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The Domesticated Brain May 23, 2014 7:41 am FrankC

This is interesting, but I don’t quite know what to make of it, beyond my knee jerk repulsion to the idea of brain shrinkage. It seems that we may be transferring our intellect to the cloud. We are being conditioned to rely on pooled knowledge made available to us rather than using our own ingenuity

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Hood also acknowledges that our socially domesticated brains are responsible for prejudice, and can condone horrific acts, such as genocide. The importance we place on allegiances, for example, is all too easily manipulated by unscrupulous leaders, and deplorable actions are too readily committed through what Hood calls “diffusion of accountability”.

  • That is incredibly interesting.` by bowser 2014-05-23 10:49:47
    • An interesting, and not altogether unreasonable hypothesis. by ER 2014-05-23 09:04:37

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