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    Every generation has its James Dean: the rebel who refuses to follow the path beaten by their peers. Now, a new study in Current Biology has found a link between the amount of grey matter in one specific brain region and an individual's likelihood of conforming to social pressures.

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    Interesting paradox...sociopathy tends to correlate to greater activity in the rear areas of the brain and, in particular, less in the right frontal lobe, and yet sociopaths are known for being masters of conformity and social disguise.
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    Yet even then, we ran like the wind,
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    program the mind by giving images emotional connotations (both processed in the hindbrain); the forebrain creates associations/situations that fix them in place. conformity amounts to successful shock treatment, sociopathy controlling one's pulse under a lie detector.
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    Yeah, I mean the raw polarities are still felt by the primitive style, but can only really be called upon as absolutes or generalities, whereas the addition of purely subjective social implications and contextual associations refines their applications; the more rigid feel and un-nuanced application of social norms that results as a lack of intuitive contextual memorization is probably part of what gives people the "creeps" from sociopaths.
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    We hurt others and were hurt ourselves...

    Yet even then, we ran like the wind,
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    Under cerulean skies...

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    So should I throw out my belief in free will now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by kassie View Post
    So should I throw out my belief in free will now?
    No, FUCK your free will.
    But, for a certainty, back then,
    We loved so many, yet hated so much,
    We hurt others and were hurt ourselves...

    Yet even then, we ran like the wind,
    Whilst our laughter echoed,
    Under cerulean skies...

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    Quote Originally Posted by kassie View Post
    So should I throw out my belief in free will now?
    Ah yes, better later than never.

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