That's highly speculative and I haven't seen anything that would support that. Call me a Freudian but our gut and our subconscious isn't something that can be separated from our experiences. As humans we are animals and are hardwired with instinct but one thing that separates us from Golden Marmosets is that our instincts are highly conditioned by our cognition and experience. You're trying to argue that gut and the subconscious is something that is not influenced by our cultural and environmental conditions when that is anything but the case. As humans our development of things like threat recognition require a lot of training and development and is who or what we viscerally react to can be traced to upbringing and personal history rather than some innateness. That doesn't mean we don't have instincts its just that such instincts are very much shaped rather than being apriori. Also in regard to gut being 95% accurate I have no idea where you came up with such a figure and I highly doubt that instinctual reaction is so accurate.
just to clear things out.. Muslims prayers are not the typical prayers you would think of.. praying in islam is not "saying stuff aloud" and it involves physical moves like standing up then kneeling down.. and you cant really pray for a certain thing like "global destruction".. u just pray .. "praying" is not the right word to express this muslim practice because it's not really like the christian kind of praying which is "asking for a particular thing.. in Islam you have to pray 5 times a day .. so it's nothing suspicious or anything...
They did a study in which they had data cards to predict weather - except there was no logical way to deterministically predict the weather on the pattern by any human brain or even super computer. Thus the only way was inutiive knowldge. Subject were shown each card and asked to "guess" what the weather would be. At first they did no better then probability, but as time progressed they learned to do as well as 90% accuracy even though they could not explain why they chose the answer they did. There was no logic. It was purely based on their "gut" reaction.
I'm not familiar with such a study but that doesn't sound like gut or instinct but pattern recognition which can be trained and is also affected by experiential bias. "Gut" also isn't a technical term so I'm not even sure if the terminology is correct.
Gut is another word for intuition - and it's widely accepted now that intuition is an actually brain faculty that is parallel to logic. If you need further reference I recommend a few books upon which my arguments are based: Blink by Malcom Gladwell Descartes Error by Antonio Damasio Also suggest A Modern Theory of love Man and His Symbols (Carl Jung)
It's also the same little feeling that caused 'W' to believe that God wanted him to invade Iraq. If that's not proof enough...
inution while tied into feelings - is not the same as fear. In Bushes case, I think it's fear and ego that drive him, not intuition. This about it....the saying "never doubt a woman's intuition?" Why are women more intuitive? Because they are less driven by ego. Read the book....you have to read the studies and understand some nueroscience before you get into this stuff.
Read Mr. Bush's descriptions and I don't see how you can say that. He clearly describes looking 'into his heart' and getting the feeling that this was what God wanted him to do. No tint of fear in his words. Also, I would ask how is it not fear based when one is discussing people who are afraid to fly with a group of individuals?
fear may be involved. But it may not be driving the action. Decision making in human's is extremely complex - that's why you need to first learn basic nueroscience. I can't explain it in a post.
More funny than convincing (the COPs analogy was a little flimsy), but, assuming the narrator is Muslim, I definitely empathize. The 1.5 billion number is pretty sobering (I assumed it was just in the high hundred millions), even though I'd like to verify it myself. Do crews on international flights take these types of customer complaints as seriously, or have they seen enough Muslim passengers to not overreact in this manner?
I am willing to bet dollars to donuts that I know more about human neuroscience than you. It was my major in college. You don't need to 'explain' anything, thanks.
Well, congrats that you majored in it. I love how people think a b.a. they got in college makes them experts. Ok expert, why don't you explain the emotional connection to intuition and learning? Since you know so much, you must already understand this. Did you read Descartes Error? It's only the most famous book in neuroscience this century - so since you majored in it in college you must have studied it!
I can't speak on that topic. However; I can say it's about time people stop calling other people racists and morons, or saying they are stupid just because they don't agree with what they are saying. Clearly the mods are cracking down...
If I were to ask for advice from someone in regards to neuroscience, I’d rather get it from someone with a B.A in that field. To say that a B.A stands for jack sh*t is really stupid, anyone with a B.A in a particular field is more knowledgeable than joe shmoe off the street…..in most cases . Then again this is the cyberspace world, and anyone can have a B.A, MBA, whatever you want…I guess until that person show's their knowledge, you should take everything with a grain of salt.
please don't mock my race. If you have something against Indians, I think you should learn more about them instead of making personal attacks.
i wasnt mocking your "race" - i was mocking you. the funny thing is my grandmother is from bangalore, making me 1/4 indian - no lie!
This is mildly amusing. For the record I have not read this book but I read several others that sound similar. Claiming that reading this book provides you with some intimate and powerful knowledge of neuroscience is like saying that reading The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss and Stephen Hawking makes you an expert on physics. This is a mass market book which has been written for general reading. When you can tell me how the parvocellular and magnocellular pathways transmit information to blobs and interblobs and to what functional regions of the brain they in turn link to, then we might be able to talk. For the record I am not an expert by any means in neuroscience. I was an average student at best, but I do know that for you to claim that you know what you are talking about is so astoundingly silly that it makes me feel embarased for you.
