On 05/28/2015 10:01 AM, Autonomous wrote:
Research shows that
limitations in social interaction have more to do with the
hardware of the brain rather than education, learning or the
"software" of the brain. Or in other words, it is a type of
physical disability.
-- I have very little confidence in this kind of research. Modern
science denies the existence of spirit, or @ least considers it not
a subject for science, & so ignores it, which usually amounts to
denying it. OTOH, emotional/spiritual experiences do have physical
effects, so science, in its prejudice, concludes that these physical
signs are "the cause." Rupert Sheldrake is the only guy I know of
who has figgered this out, w/ the possible exception of Deepak
Chopra. The result is a dead end that does a *lot* of damage. One
recent example of progress: British researchers (I think) found that
rat pups inherited conditioned fear: specifically: they did a
"Pavlov's dog" number w/ rose water & electric shocks so that
rats got scared of the smell of rose water. Then they bred then, and
found that the children were scared of it before they had any
training. This torpedoes a sacred tenet of centuries' standing:
acquired characteristics cannot be inherited. But recent advances in
instrumentation have shown that experiences can generate molecules
in the cell that turn off genes, & @ least some of these
molecules can stay attached when the sperm or egg cells split their
DNA (instrument technology is just beginning to reveal this). It's
called "epigenetic inheritance."
The article came out in "Lancet" a few months ago, as I recall.
Nil Carborundum Illegitemi,
Ed Rippy