Structural brain differences in liberals and conservatives

[Skybird]

http://www.naholaw.com/brains-of-lib...-study-ctv-ca/

Actually, in a way it makes sense: as I perceive it, in temporary politics it is the conservatives who are more likely to speak out against something new or against changes or against certain new policies to be tried, while it is the liberal being more open to lave the established ways of conservativsm behind and try new things. The study claims that the brain structure of the amygdala is more dominant in conservatives' brains. This structure is responsible for feelings and emotions of fear, beign alarmed, worried.

But it is absolutely imaginable for me that it is right this "fear" that makes the conservative less eager to try the new thing, and to leave behind the proven familiar ways he is used to, because:

either this fear motivates him to try to look more thoroughly into the future and thus realise longterm consequences that a less alarmed mind would not care to realise;

or the conservative for other reasons, for reasons of traditional preservation, looks more thoroughly ahead, sees scenarios that the more uncaring mind that is enthusiastic about change as a self-purpose ignores of m inimises in his assessment,, and these alarming possibilities he sees makes the conservative more "afraid".

Tricky thing it is with this idea of ours: to have a free will to choose and to decide. In neurological science it was disputed (when I studied) whether sould follows body, or body follows soul. Do our eyes cry tears because we feel sad - or do we feel sad because our eyes cry tears? At least during the nineties, this debate still was unresolved. I don't know about any possible research breakthroughs since then, though, I'm out of that business.

Not even mentioning to what far-reaching degrees sexual motives and drives push us to behave and to form our cultures. Even in social constellations where we usually think we are free from animalistic drives, behavioural biologist may - and often do - outline motives for our "free" decisions on buying this and deciding against that option - based on sexual motives.

A difficult thing this thing called "free will" is. If there is any at all. What did Freud say? He said that the paint of civilization on our surface is extremely thin, and can easily be scratched off- And what you find beneath is the dictate of animalism, and genes.