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- onlooks like I've been wrong and spreading misinformation about the disproven "triune brain theory"by
That book explicitly smashes the triune brain theory. Working from memory here, one of the puzzle pieces in the books is: the growth of these different parts of the brain is turned on and off by chemical signalling and otherwise it's a common architecture - so you can induce... - fra...
It's fun to think, like science fiction, but it's totally alien to biological reality. Friendships between men are naturally poly, as the goal (hunting?, war?) needs large bands of affiliated men. Romantic relationships have a different goal (reproduction).... - kendra...
I have heard that the “mom brain” phenomenon is actually tied to a really big neurological event that happens where your brain is creating space/attuning to that which matters most and requires, therefore, the most brain matter.... How could this not matter?! Wherther it’s instinctual for some and not others, versus whether it’s one way or another, seems to me to matter as much as any instincts!... I agree that these frames are pretty wonky and often misused; I get really annoyed by the way many if not most people use the concept in personal growth culture. Most of the assumptions don’t hold across cultures.... Yeah, I’m with you. Although… I think the man and woman genders will always have the specialness of being the OG genders, with a giant history and biological impact, and we shouldn’t ignore or deconstruct this away, while still honoring and including all the genders as equal... - Lateadult...
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- onlooks like I've been wrong and spreading misinformation about the disproven "triune brain theory"by
I'm still learning, but my current sense is that the mechanistic claims are disproven given current understanding of biology and evolution, but the narrative is compelling enough (just like you've said) that it persists.... I had a similar response to the first point — the compulsion to procreate is life - it's the least selfish thing one can do. We went from single celled organisms to fish to apes to us because of that compulsion (along with a bunch of other stuff).... Yeah I agree about the payoff—I kinda want to say "do whatever you’ll actually do." I’m not in this domain very much, so I wonder—do these people talk about synergizing the psychological with the biological, the systemic and culture?... - annabeth...
I believe fo any given phenomenon (like attraction), there’s a co-arising of psychological, biological/behavioral, cultural, and systemic factors at play. This is the essence of the "quadrants" aspect of the integral model....