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[Ronin]

No one said full attack mode. That is a gross exaggeration.

Exaggeration, it isn't, considered that's literally how many people operate. Description of responses, perhaps.

You cannot train your reptile brain it doesn't accept reconditioning.

Yet a part of brain isn't the only one determining people's behavior. Influence isn't determination. One isn't a slave to instincts.

 

[Truthful_Whispers]

Question: If you were going to buy a home, would you buy one in a neighborhood that only consisted of people from another race? Latino neighborhood, black neighborhood, chinese neighborhood. Or, if you are one of those races, a caucasian neighborhood?

 

[Ronin]

I'm happy to live where people compatible with me live. Experience & life views & how we view other people & how we act about those views. More so: Don't give a damn, I'll make it my neighborhood, regardless of who's been there before, if I want to live there.

 

[Truthful_Whispers]

I'm happy to live where people compatible with me live. Experience & life views & how we view other people...

Would you live somewhere where the people around you were very different, and not so compatible with your personality?

 

[Ronin]

That's describing huge portions of my life, @Whispering_Truth. People accustom. & I'm good on my own if it need be.

 

[Bill Dickerson]

Exaggeration, it isn't, considered that's literally how many people operate. Description of responses, perhaps.

If we operated in the manner you suggest (totally by instinct) we would never made it out of the caves.

I think Whispering Truth is trying to illustrate that people typically gather in groups they are comfortable with. It's why you have China Towns is some cities and why there a great many Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan. The same thing happens on a smaller scale in high schools for instance. Geeks at one table and the jocks at another.

It's how we are wired.

I'm not saying people can't get along but you can't change biology.

 

[Bill Dickerson]

Yet a part of brain isn't the only one determining people's behavior. Influence isn't determination. One isn't a slave to instincts.

We aren't slaves to it but it exists. For Example: You walk into the kitchen one day and I jump out and hit you in the forehead with a baseball bat. After you wake up I apologize and leave. You will never walk through that doorway without a part of your brain yelling "be careful a crazy man with a bat may hit you in the head DUCK!". You choose to ignore it but it is always there just the same. Biology can't be changed.

That little part of the brain is one of the reasons people have PTSD.

 

[Truthful_Whispers]

If we operated in the manner you suggest (totally by instinct) we would never made it out of the...

Precisely, Bill. :)

 

[Ronin]

@Bill Dickerson, no, not quite.

I'll track that guy who did it and find a way to make it clear to them that's not what they do. Or work on reclaiming my space so they can't do it again. Or do a hundred different things that have nothing to do with a 'fear' response you're assuming.

 

[Truthful_Whispers]

We aren't slaves to it but it exists. For Example: You walk into the kitchen one day and I jump o...

Hulk angry! Hulk SMASH!! lol

 

[Bill Dickerson]

I'll track that guy who did it and find a way to make it clear to them that's not what they do.

What guy?

Or do a hundred different things that have nothing to do with a 'fear' response you're assuming.

I think your having trouble understanding the difference in the reptile brain and the cognitive part of the brain.

Wikipedia: Triune brain

The reptilian complex, also known as the R-complex or "reptilian brain" was the name MacLean gave to the basal ganglia, structures derived from the floor of the forebrain during development. The term derives from the idea that comparative neuroanatomists once believed that the forebrains of reptiles and birds were dominated by these structures. MacLean proposed that the reptilian complex was responsible for species-typical instinctual behaviors involved in aggression, dominance, territoriality, and ritual displays.

The reptile brain for instance is like the fear of heights is so deep it's just there regardless. You can ignore it but it's always there. Like that little voice screaming "DUCK' when you walk into the kitchen. You may not acknowledge it but it still exists.

It's why gunshots or loud noises can create unwanted reactions in some people with PTSD. That little part of the reptile brain in overdrive is yelling "DUCK". You may decompress and be able to one day know it's ok but you never forget.

 

[Truthful_Whispers]

http://bodylanguageuniversity.com/public/238.cfm reptilian brain