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    A search of recent discussions yields some unintelligible thread by tcaudilllg and Korpsey's article of destructive applications of neuroscience thread. The subject of this thread was not really discussed in either (or any subject for that matter ) so I'm assuming the honor of bringing it before the court.

    Quote Originally Posted by Wikipedia + Neuroplasticity
    Neuroplasticity refers to the susceptibility to physiological changes of the nervous system, due to changes in behavior, environment, neural processes, or parts of the body other than the nervous system. The brain changes throughout life.
    Neuroplasticity occurs on a variety of levels, ranging from cellular changes due to learning, to large-scale changes involved in cortical remapping in response to injury. The role of neuroplasticity is widely recognized in healthy development, learning, memory, and recovery from brain damage. During most of the 20th century, the general consensus among neuroscientists was that brain structure is relatively immutable after a critical period during early childhood. This belief has been challenged by findings revealing that many aspects of the brain remain plastic even into adulthood.
    It has been speculated that certain parts of the brain will atrophy with lack of use and others will strengthen and grow from related activity. Now that the jury knows about as much as I do about the topic at hand, let's proceed .

    If the relationship between the physical structure of the brain and type is direct, then is not type only a temporary behavioral model? Wouldn't it be inaccurate one for rapidly changing brains (e.g. children, students, etc.)? Do you believe that the origin of the expression of one's type is not necessarily found in the brain?

    If you guys don't believe in the validity of neuroplastic (or neuroscience in general) research, why? Sure, it's been discredited by the business world with their silly attempts at using it to make a profit and probably has its fair share of pseudo scientific crap. However, the scientific reality of neuroscience is undeniable, and it has been and is being used to undeniably sound effects in various brain-related injuries, especially strokes and spine related injuries.

    For those of you who would still believe type is in some way inherited genetically or otherwise predestined for life, I challenge you to produce an argument for how that's possible without including the brain in the explanation or otherwise soundly denounce neuroscience philosophically (an approach I would accept and respect ).

    Disclaimer; This is not a neuroscience NWO thread, tcaudilllg beware. I know jack shit about anything neuroscientifically deeper than the explanation above. I'm not denouncing your awesome wet dreams about duality or socionics. Please have mercy

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    Damn it, I thought it was Athww. And ye speculate some more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Atlast View Post
    It has been speculated that certain parts of the brain will atrophy with lack of use and others will strengthen and grow from related activity. Now that the jury knows about as much as I do about the topic at hand, let's proceed .
    I think this is perhaps a generally accepted view. I have read in my research about anxiety disorders that people with Generalized Anxiety Disorder tend to have a larger amygdala (controls fight or flight) from constant "use" and a devolving hippocampus from disuse. Not sure about the validity, or my memory, but it's interesting.

    I'm not sure each function has a certain, definable, physical spot in the brain. It seems unlikely, at least with how limitedly the functions are defined. I can't say much on this though. I don't think people are born to be a certain type for sure. Hm...I mean, I dunno.
    I'm not sure type is something physical, even in a genetic sense, but if it is, I'd put more stock in this theory than the idea of type being genetic.

    What I'm trying to say, hah, is that...sure. It seems feasible that type can change based on usage of parts of the brain and neglect of other parts. But..that is only true, assuming that the functions are so explicitly mapped out in the brain. :S

    I mean, from personal experience, like when I was in middle school and the beginning of high school, I was pretty much a stereotypical IEI, but it's as if I have lost use of that way of being...and am different now. Whether there was a physical change in my brain though, I can't say.
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    Quote Originally Posted by octo View Post
    Haha, I used to be sensible back then. I think the concept of pathway strength being the basis for function strength could have interesting implications for dimensionality of functions and functional development, but 2009 octo would bitchslap me for further speculation...
    lol. I would agree with your earlier post in that if type somehow exists somewhere in the brain, it is probably in the higher functions. This is evidenced by how socionics is totally non-applicable to the animal kingdom. However, what complicates things in my mind is the fact that a behavioral model predicts responses, and human response is based on both the higher thinking functions and the reactionary instinctual ones. Thus, type is theoretically an interaction of both. Also, it may be possible that there is some kind of inherited or constant factor that just has us coming back to some neural pathways more than others. It would have to be more than just habit.

    Interesting note; I found a cool image that portrays some data and conclusions on some common vidya games and their effects on the brain (the forum will resize it and kill its majesty). Aside from essentially proving that STs are the best at most video games ;D, it shows decreased activity in the frontal lobe.. does that diminish type if it's located in the frontal lobe? Or is it stimulating sensory (S) parts of the brain and diminishing, say N? That question could be answered by looking at Alzheimer victims and determining if they still have definite type, as the cause of their dementia is (from what I can tell) due to frontal lobe deterioration.

    Unrelated article from similar site; some chicks get orgasms from weight equipment. I grow empowered by knowledge.
    Quote Originally Posted by gambit View Post
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    Yes, I see what you're saying. I've observed that as we go from physical ------> abstract, the empirical (hard) sciences become less relevant. Even language usually fails to express high abstractions. I also agree that philosophy and psychology (soft) have far greater potential than science to give us understanding of the human psyche, and that a chemical/empirical explanation for our experience will never suffice. Jung's system of typology is an admirable effort (which is why I'm here ).

    However, the implications of neuroplasticity seem to breach both disciplines. It's a strange thing when we can solve psychological problems by applying an empirical principle (neuroplasticity) combined with psychological principles (therapy targeted at stimulating empirically defined parts of the brain that are damaged/afflicted/unused) with success.
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    And that took too long to type.
    Most things worth posting usually do

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    The functions don't work that way. They can't be localized to the IM processors alone, because other traits co-evolved with the type.

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    The opening post puts it as if plasticity somehow contradicts and apposes heredity when really it mostly works to reinforce the trends in balance between faculties set by heredity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jennifer View Post
    you guys need to go cut frogs open and leave the forum alone mkay

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    Quote Originally Posted by gambit View Post
    Yeah, I mean, I don't doubt that our intelligence is malleable to an extent (that seems a given to me and how I tend to treat most people). I think/thought that's what neuroplasticity is referring to; I guess I'm not sure. The second article seems to suggest that the brain can make up for motor deficits; but I thought this was similar to how someone with no hands can end up learning how to use their feet better. They just figured out how to better use what they have. I know there are cases of people having parts of their brains removed only to find that the rest of the brain, over time, makes up for what was lost. But there are limits. And I only know of this happening in children. This adult man lost a frontal lobe or a good portion of the frontal lobes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
    Well, here's the deal; we can use neuroplasticity to strengthen and create neural connections in parts of the brain that are healthy but unused. However, in victims of strokes, who suffered damage permanently and physically impaired one part of the brain, the damage itself is generally not reparable; what happens I believe is that the neural pathways reorganize themselves and use surrounding or adjacent networks to compensate and re-learn the use of a limb, or whatever the problem is. That's what many neuroplastic therapy programs are designed to do. No matter what happens, using feet or a previously impaired limb, the physical structure of the brain changed
    Also, you talk of that potential constant factor that would keep us coming back to certain preordained connections. It is a possibility, and I am very curious too. Alack, I haven't a degree or a laboratory . And yeah, neuroscience is one more path to a dystopian hell. So are increasing surveillance technologies. Time is running out
    Quote Originally Posted by tcaudilllg View Post
    The functions don't work that way. They can't be localized to the IM processors alone, because other traits co-evolved with the type...
    How do you figure? Only two principles are necessary to reach my dilemma; 1) functions exist and 2) they are correlated to the physical brain. If both of those things are true, how are they exempt from a physically changing brain? The review board would probably balk at socionics before the science, lol
    Quote Originally Posted by Esaman View Post
    The opening post puts it as if plasticity somehow contradicts and apposes heredity when really it mostly works to reinforce the trends in balance between faculties set by heredity.
    Care to explain? Again, none of us here are experts on the matter and are just speculating out of curiosity. If you can bring any explanation so ground breaking to the table, it would be much appreciated . I was pointing out that you can ignore trends and stop using/reinforce otherwise unused parts of the brain, e.g. an overcome drug addiction.
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    you guys need to go cut frogs open and leave the forum alone mkay
    Why don't you come over here and I'll use my empathy to change the physical structure of your brain for you

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    Why don't you come over here and I'll use my empathy to change the physical structure of your brain for you
    dafuq that's what a suspected LSE told me the other day.He was into the science of subliminal people manipulation and has read a tone of books on it.The poor guy was trying to teach me texas hold 'em and black jack resulting in me doing whatever and him not noticing it (pheeew).Not nearly as traumatic as the first and last time I gave UNO a try,though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Atlast View Post
    For those of you who would still believe type is in some way inherited genetically or otherwise predestined for life, I challenge you to produce an argument for how that's possible without including the brain in the explanation or otherwise soundly denounce neuroscience philosophically (an approach I would accept and respect ).
    Type isn't inherited in any way whatsoever. For this to actually work your mum and dad would have to be both SLI to begin with, as in, blessed with deltaness by the holy spirit plus you have to distinguish between family resemblance and genetic resemblance. Many traits are familial but not heritable, that is, familiality is often confused with heritability, when it is supposed that the resemblance of parents and children is a demonstration of the power of heredity.

    The greatest similarity between parents and offspring can be said, is in two social traits, religious sect and political party, in some countries, that is, U.S. for example. Yet no serious person would suggest that the very high family resemblance for these traits is a result of genetic determination.

    EDIT: Meow, cluck, moo. These traits are actually heritable:

    Height,

    Weight,

    Arm length,

    Foot length,

    Hip circumference,

    Cephalic index,

    Masculinity-femininity,

    IQ,

    Extroversion,

    Neuroticism.

    I don't see any type there. There, I challenged those geniuses you refer to this forum has to offer. Beer me now
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    Quote Originally Posted by Absurd View Post
    Type isn't inherited in any way whatsoever. For this to actually work your mum and dad would have to be both SLI to begin with, as in, blessed with deltaness by the holy spirit plus you have to distinguish between family resemblance and genetic resemblance. Many traits are familial but not heritable, that is, familiality is often confused with heritability, when it is supposed that the resemblance of parents and children is a demonstration of the power of heredity.

    The greatest similarity between parents and offspring can be said, is in two social traits, religious sect and political party, in some countries, that is, U.S. for example. Yet no serious person would suggest that the very high family resemblance for these traits is a result of genetic determination.

    EDIT: Meow, cluck, moo. These traits are actually heritable:

    Height,

    Weight,

    Arm length,

    Foot length,

    Hip circumference,

    Cephalic index,

    Masculinity-femininity,

    IQ,

    Extroversion,

    Neuroticism.

    I don't see any type there. There, I challenged those geniuses you refer to this forum has to offer. Beer me now
    Those are different aspects, dingus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jadae2point0 View Post
    Those are different aspects, dingus.
    I don't know what different aspects means, Jerusalem.

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    Challenge this, challenge that. Why would anyone want to debate on complex subject with random people who seam invested and defensive in their position. Since we all have at best amateur scientific knowledge on the subject we can only exchange information and views without much authority. That is a discussion not a debate, and for discussion to take place you need to at least faint interest and receptiveness to what people disagreeing with you say.

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    Without including the brain in the explanation? Hmm?

    Well, when we say types are genetic, we aren't necessarily talking about heredity. We mean encoded in the very dna of a person, but how or for what reason...I do not know. Every type is a template.

    A simple way of explaining it in the best way I can...

    Take a prism in the shape of a triangle for example. This prism represents one of the 16 types. A prism is originally transparent and untampered with, which represents a person's original and most basic perception of reality (meaning from when they were first born). As you begin to introduce different spectra of colors (life experiences, environment, drugs, etc) into the equation, the focus/color (thoughts, actions, etc) of the prism begins to change. But it is always filtered through this lens, this prism in the shape of a triangle. It does not change into a prism in the shape of a rectangle, which would represent an entirely different type, it shape (type) always stays the same although its color (perception, thoughts and actions) has changed.

    No amount of neuroplasticity, is going to change your type because you can only work with what you are given. If your brain, dna, whatever doesn't have the prerequisites for a certain function, it can only do so much and until it reaches it's limit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Agee The Great View Post
    Well, when we say types are genetic, we aren't necessarily talking about heredity. We mean encoded in the very dna of a person, but how or for what reason...I do not know. Every type is a template.
    I noticed "we do not talk about heredity". Genetics deals with heredity, it is a science of heredity last time I checked.

    If your brain, dna, whatever doesn't have the prerequisites for a certain function, it can only do so much and until it reaches it's limit.
    Don't know why but that made me smile.

    Quote Originally Posted by tcaudilllg View Post
    This debate has already been settled in the neuroscience community. You are just rehashing it for sport. Stop with the drama or I'll ignore you.
    He's not going to stop. You're going to have to stab him well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Absurd View Post
    I noticed "we do not talk about heredity". Genetics deals with heredity, it is a science of heredity last time I checked.



    Don't know why but that made me smile.
    Last time you checked?

    When is the last time you used your brain?

    I know genetics deals with heredity, that's why I made it clear that when we say types are genetic or inborn...we really mean type is set somewhere in a person's own unique dna. In other words, it may or may not be inherited through genes, but is definitely established through some other means.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Atlast View Post
    For those of you who would still believe type is in some way inherited genetically or otherwise predestined for life, I challenge you to produce an argument for how that's possible without including the brain in the explanation[...]
    Quote Originally Posted by Absurd View Post
    EDIT: Meow, cluck, moo. These traits are actually heritable:

    Blahlistblah
    Quote Originally Posted by Agee The Great View Post
    Last time you checked?

    When is the last time you used your brain?
    Last time I checked, exactly, you're seeing well. And the last time I used my brain was when you took an IQ test that was culled and adjusted so that the scores corresponded to teachers' and psychologists' a priori judgments about who was intelligent and who was not.

    I know genetics deals with heredity, that's why I made it clear that when we say types are genetic...we really mean type is set somewhere in a person's own unique dna. In other words, it may or may not be inherited through genes, but is definitely established through some other means.
    Procreation?

    Quote Originally Posted by tcaudilllg View Post
    One thing I know for a fact is that identical twins always have the same type. I've known lots of identical twins and although they work to differentiate themselves (sometimes) they always share the same philosophies.
    This is completely wrong a.k.a bullshit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Absurd View Post
    Last time I checked, exactly, you're seeing well. And the last time I used my brain was when you took an IQ test that was culled and adjusted so that the scores corresponded to teachers' and psychologists' a priori judgments about who was intelligent and who was not.



    Procreation?
    What the fuck are you even rambling about...

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    If you had researched the science, you'd know that neuroplasticity and type aren't mutually exclusive. Neuroplasticity is THE ABILITY OF THE BRAIN TO REASSIGN ITS NEURONS TO RECOVER ITS ORIGINAL FUNCTIONAL STATE. IT DOES NOT AT ALL SUGGEST A TRAIT-VARIABLE BRAIN. IF ANYTHING, IT PROVES THAT TRAIT SYSTEM ORGANIZATIONS ARE FAULT TOLERANT.

    This debate has already been settled in the neuroscience community. You are just rehashing it for sport. Stop with the drama or I'll ignore you.

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    Type probably has something to do with allels of the egg and sperm: there is variation.

    One thing I know for a fact is that identical twins always have the same type. I've known lots of identical twins and although they work to differentiate themselves (sometimes) they always share the same philosophies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tcaudilllg View Post
    Type probably has something to do with allels of the egg and sperm: there is variation.

    One thing I know for a fact is that identical twins always have the same type. I've known lots of identical twins and although they work to differentiate themselves (sometimes) they always share the same philosophies.
    ....Nonsense.

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    You guys are crazy, man. You got a dart in your neck.
    Projection is ordinary. Person A projects at person B, hoping tovalidate something about person A by the response of person B. However, person B, not wanting to be an obejct of someone elses ego and guarding against existential terror constructs a personality which protects his ego and maintain a certain sense of a robust and real self that is different and separate from person A. Sadly, this robust and real self, cut off by defenses of character from the rest of the world, is quite vulnerable and fragile given that it is imaginary and propped up through external feed back. Person B is dimly aware of this and defends against it all the more, even desperately projecting his anxieties back onto person A, with the hope of shoring up his ego with salubrious validation. All of this happens without A or B acknowledging it, of course. Because to face up to it consciously is shocking, in that this is all anybody is doing or can do and it seems absurd when you realize how pathetic it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Absurd View Post
    ...about...your........inherent.......ignorance... ......
    But..how..you're...a.......dumbass...

    You...don't....know...shit.... ...... ...

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    It's unlikely that this letter will win me many friends or even garner much attention. However, writing it is the only way I know to bring a fresh perspective and new ideas to the current debate. First off, I want to thank Brain for his causeries. They give me an excellent opportunity to illustrate just how vengeful Brain can be. We must weaken the critical links in his nexus of ignorant totalism. As mentioned above, however, that is not enough. It is necessary to do more. It is necessary to supply the missing ingredient that could stop the worldwide slide into animalism.

    How I pity Brain if I were to be his judge. I would start by notifying the jury that there are those who are informed and educated about the evils of privatism, and there are those who are not. Brain is one of the uninformed, naturally, and that's why he pompously claims that negativism can quell the hatred and disorder in our society. That sort of nonsense impresses many people, unfortunately.

    I don't see how Brain can build a workable policy around wishful thinking draped over a morass of confusion (and also, as we'll see below, historical illiteracy), then impose it willy-nilly on a population by force. I'm not saying that it can't possibly be done but rather that Brain's barbs are like an enormous feudalism-spewing machine. We must begin dismantling that structure. We must put a monkey wrench in its gears. And we must ring the bells of truth because I have a dream that my children will be able to live in a world filled with open spaces and beautiful wilderness—not in a dark, ophidian world run by the worst kinds of beggarly primates there are.

    On the issue of dogmatism, Brain is wrong again. Sure, his views are not on the up and up. But not only does Brain detach people from their morally established systems of belief, but he then commands his shock troops, "Go, and do thou likewise." It goes without saying that he says that he wants to make life better for everyone. Lacking a coherent ideology, however, he always ends up carrying out "preventive operations" (that means "targeted killings") against his rivals. From what I understand, Brain makes it sound like the rules don't apply to him. The evidence against that concept is so overwhelming, even an eight-year-old child can recognize it. Even so, you may be worried that Brain will make a fetish of the virtues of adversarial warlordism one day. If so, then I share your misgivings. But let's not worry about that now. Instead, let's discuss my observation that given the amount of misinformation that Brain is circulating, I must indeed point out that I've tried to explain to his raving cat's-paws that he has a taste for interminable controversy over minor questions. As could be expected, they were a bit slow on the uptake. I just couldn't get them to comprehend that Brain speaks like a true defender of the status quo—a status quo, we should not forget, that enables him to place the worst classes of pharisaical poltroons there are at the top of the social hierarchy.

    It's good that you're reading this letter. It's good that you're listening to what I'm saying. But reading and listening aren't enough. You must also be willing to help me grant people the freedom to pursue any endeavor they deem fitting to their skills, talent, and interest. Brain's execrations have created a disdainful universe devoid of logic and evidence. Only within this universe does it make sense to say that freedom must be abolished in order for people to be more secure and comfortable. Only within this universe does it make sense to topple society. And, only if we shed a little light on some of the ignorant prejudices that reside within his pea-sized brain can we destroy this ugly universe of his and express our concerns about his incomprehensible refrains.

    Brain has spent untold hours trying to thrust all of us into scenarios rife with personal animosities and petty resentments. During that time, did it ever once occur to him that it has been proven by measurements and by analysis that we should treat his nerdy club for what it is, a sexist, unenlightened group of shiftless backbiters? If you need help in answering that question, you may note that the hour is late indeed. Fortunately, it's not yet too late to deal with the relevant facts. His repressive allocutions really raise my blood pressure. In other words—and let's say this plainly, clearly, and soberly so that no one can misinterpret his true intentions—he doesn't care about freedom as he can neither eat it nor put it in the bank. It's just a word to him.

    Maybe it's just me, but don't you think that under the guise of stimulating debate and illuminating diverse perspectives, Brain's grievances actually change children's values from those taught in the home to those considered chic by meretricious misfits? Although the dialectics of insecure praxis will use every conceivable form of diplomacy, deception, pressure, coercion, bribery, treason, and terror to bask in the macabre shine of obstructionism before long, Brain should stop bellyaching and start healing himself. This just goes to show (to me, at least) that his harangues do not represent progress. They represent insanity masquerading as progress. Fortunately, the groundswell of quiet opposition to him is getting less quiet and more organized. Still, implying that his opinions represent the opinions of the majority—or even a plurality—is no different from implying that his obiter dicta are intelligent, commonsensical, and entirely consonant with the views of ordinary people. Both statements are ludicrous.

    I once pointed out to Brain that this is explicitly or implicitly expressed or presupposed in most of the material I plan to present. All I could garner from his ensuing mussitation was some nonsense about how power, politics, and privilege should prevail over the rule of law. It's this sort of blowsy response that leads me to believe that it's not the bogeyman that our children need to worry about. It's Brain. Not only is Brain more lascivious and more unsophisticated than any envisaged bogeyman or bugbear, but I've never bothered Brain. Yet Brain wants to suppress our freedom. Whatever happened to "live and let live"?

    I recently received some mail in which the writer stated, "Brain has always favored providing a privileged and protected status for sleazy knuckleheads." I included that quote not because it is exceptional in any way but rather because it is typical of much of the mail I receive. I included it to show you that I'm not the only one who thinks that I like to face facts. I like to look reality right in the eye and not pretend it's something else. And the reality of our present situation is this: Brain has a strategy. His strategy is to biologically or psychologically engineer unsympathetic perjurers to make them even more shrewish than they already are. Wherever you encounter that strategy, you are dealing with Brain.

    We must stop tiptoeing and begin marching boldly and forthrightly towards our goal, which is to expose some of Brain's squalid deeds. I recently heard Brain tell a bunch of people that character development is not a matter of "strength through adversity" but rather, "entitlement through victimization". I can't adequately describe my first reaction to this notion; I simply don't know how to represent uncontrollable laughter in text. I'd like to end this letter with a message for Brain. I'd like to say with emphasis and distinctness—not as a threat, but as a warning—that I will do whatever it takes to carve solutions that are neither pesky nor incoherent, and I won't let him stop me from achieving that goal.

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    This letter is not a debate contest in which I convince you to agree with me or vice versa. This letter is concerned only with establishing the truth about The Human Body. To plunge right into it, The Human Body used to maintain that a knowledge of correct diction, even if unused, evinces a superiority that covers cowardice or stupidity. When it realized that no one was falling for that claptrap, it quickly changed its tune to say that "metanarratives" are the root of tyranny, lawlessness, overpopulation, racial hatred, world hunger, disease, and rank stupidity. The Human Body is honestly an empty-headed liar, and shame on anyone who believes it. The Human Body's public virtue is dwarfed by its private vice. With enough time and room, it would be easy to show why this must be true, but the clinching argument is simply that crapulous cadgers attack everyone else's beliefs. That said, we mustn't lose sight of who the real enemy is: The Human Body and its iscariotic patsies.

    If I seem a bit scummy, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with The Human Body on its own level. There is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of The Human Body's essays from the first word to the last. The struggle against malodorous, mean-spirited theologasters must be a struggle against quislingism, Marxism, and libertinism, or it is doomed to failure.

    If The Human Body gets its way, we will soon be engulfed in a Dark Age of clericalism and indescribable horror. That's why I'm telling you that that fact is simply inescapable to any thinking man or woman. "Thinking" is the key word in the previous sentence. A long time ago I wrote that "I must blow my whistle on The Human Body's tactics of deception and distortion". Today I might add that many people are incredulous when I tell them that The Human Body intends to glamorize drug usage. "How could The Human Body be so gruesome?", they ask me. "It doesn't seem possible." Well, it is decidedly possible, and now I'll explain exactly how The Human Body plans to do it. But first, you need to realize that it has a vested interest in maintaining the myths that keep its faction loyal to it. The Human Body's principal myth is that its tactics are Right with a capital R. The truth is that I can definitely suggest how The Human Body ought to behave. Ultimately, however, the burden of acting with moral rectitude lies with The Human Body itself.

    When it comes to The Human Body's jibes, I clearly allege that we have drifted along for too long in a state of blissful denial and outright complacency. It's time to deal with it appropriately. The sooner we do that the better because The Human Body uses highfalutin terms like "establishmentarianism" and "physicophilosophical" to conceal its plans to enshrine irrational fears and fancies as truth. In this scheme of its, a mass of grandiloquent words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. We become unable to see that The Human Body wants to enact new laws forcing anyone who's not one of its protégés to live in an environment that can be described, at best, as contemptuously tolerant. Personally, I don't want that. Personally, I prefer freedom. If you also prefer freedom then you should be working with me to criticize the obvious incongruities presented by it and its epigones, who are legion.

    Surely no argument is necessary to prove that you can unequivocally assume serious trouble is brewing when disgraceful blockish-types rewrite history to reflect or magnify an imaginary "victimhood". Let me express that same thought in slightly different terms: Last summer, I attempted what I knew would be a hopeless task. I tried to convince The Human Body that its expostulations are merely a fig leaf that hides its efforts to encourage people to leave their spouses, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become materialistic self-proclaimed arbiters of taste and standards. As I expected, The Human Body was unconvinced. That's the end of this letter. If I was unable to convince you that The Human Body's apologias fail to convince me that lexiphanicism-prone trolls should be given absolute authority to disguise the complexity of color, the brutality of class, and the importance of religion and sexual identity in the construction and practice of exhibitionism, then you should definitely consider contacting me with your supporting or refuting evidence, opinions, personal stories, etc., so that I can make a better argument in my next letter.
    The end is nigh

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    And yet they somehow have similar physiognomy, identical temperaments, similar philosophies... the works.

    I'm not saying there aren't differences between monozygotic twins... but dual-types and politics aren't among them.

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    I've known 2 sets of twins that were each others duals.

    Also, only i am aloud to be creepy and talk about Octo's looks. You guys back off before we have to scrap.
    Projection is ordinary. Person A projects at person B, hoping tovalidate something about person A by the response of person B. However, person B, not wanting to be an obejct of someone elses ego and guarding against existential terror constructs a personality which protects his ego and maintain a certain sense of a robust and real self that is different and separate from person A. Sadly, this robust and real self, cut off by defenses of character from the rest of the world, is quite vulnerable and fragile given that it is imaginary and propped up through external feed back. Person B is dimly aware of this and defends against it all the more, even desperately projecting his anxieties back onto person A, with the hope of shoring up his ego with salubrious validation. All of this happens without A or B acknowledging it, of course. Because to face up to it consciously is shocking, in that this is all anybody is doing or can do and it seems absurd when you realize how pathetic it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pookie View Post
    I've known 2 sets of twins that were each others duals.

    Also, only i am aloud to be creepy and talk about Octo's looks. You guys back off before we have to scrap.
    Identical twins?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Esaman View Post
    Those post are an hour and a half apart, it is not like you forgot. Whether this is conscious lying or unconscious denial you are best classified as mentally ill.
    The only way to post on this forum is to when drunk, that is to show some members respect and engage in very fruitful discussion with them. Inform me, oh wise one, when you have found socionics identicals to be genetically identical like monozygotic twins, who are not.

    Put on your labcoat and do experiments.

    Quote Originally Posted by tcaudilllg View Post
    I'm not saying there aren't differences between monozygotic twins... but dual-types and politics aren't among them.
    I bet my billion dollar hat on it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Absurd View Post
    The only way to post on this forum is to when drunk, that is to show some members respect and engage in very fruitful discussion with them. Inform me, oh wise one, when you have found socionics identicals to be genetically identical like monozygotic twins, who are not.
    Still fucked up 9 hours later, drunk or however. You are the one who brought up the whole genetical identicity issue.

    So making up bullshit you cannot follow yourself is somehow a sign of respect for participants of the forum and somehow helps discussion?

    Is this a never ending train of bullshit for you? You are disgusting. Go hit your head against the wall repeatedly for the chance of random improvement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Esaman View Post
    Still fucked up 9 hours later, drunk or however. You are the one who brought up the whole genetical identicity issue.

    So making up bullshit you cannot follow yourself is somehow a sign of respect for participants of the forum and somehow helps discussion?

    Is this a never ending train of bullshit for you? You are disgusting. Go hit your head against the wall repeatedly for the chance of random improvement.
    Oh I see. Well then, on subject of brain and its genetic disorders I think you acquired a life threatening one. And do not advise me to suffer severe blows to my head, my type is going to change like the rest of participants posting on here. I can help you with a type change, what type you want to be, so I know how hard to hit.

    And sure, I brought that "genetical identicity issue", and you lost.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Atlast View Post
    If the relationship between the physical structure of the brain and type is direct, then is not type only a temporary behavioral model? Wouldn't it be inaccurate one for rapidly changing brains (e.g. children, students, etc.)? Do you believe that the origin of the expression of one's type is not necessarily found in the brain?

    If you guys don't believe in the validity of neuroplastic (or neuroscience in general) research, why? Sure, it's been discredited by the business world with their silly attempts at using it to make a profit and probably has its fair share of pseudo scientific crap. However, the scientific reality of neuroscience is undeniable, and it has been and is being used to undeniably sound effects in various brain-related injuries, especially strokes and spine related injuries.

    For those of you who would still believe type is in some way inherited genetically or otherwise predestined for life, I challenge you to produce an argument for how that's possible without including the brain in the explanation or otherwise soundly denounce neuroscience philosophically (an approach I would accept and respect ).
    I think one needs not to abdicate from a different view due to the limitation given by your options, as they present IMO a (unintentional) false dilemma. I am not required to approve or disprove of this neuroplasticity in order to have a different opinion.

    First of all, I don't think that the type has to necessarily stand in one's morphology. Even if so, the determining mechanism can be so complex that we cannot even dare to imagine at our level of understanding. Imagine the possibility that types are determined by slight, but complex differences in chemical ratios - say in blood, "0.01% higher protein X, 0.0024 less salt Y, whatever hormone Z, [... and so on ...]". There can plausibly exist obscure, but precise and self-sustaining supporting mechanisms - in the end, life itself is an apparent tower of cards that somehow manages to stand despite the changes in the environment. This would be just one idea.

    Now, I am more inclined to think that the type is a setting, rather than a configuration in substance. Probably energetic - you know, like polarization & shit. Pretty much how a memory, or how a though, or a feeling is set. I don't know what exactly these phenomena are supported on, materially, however I am not aware of direct, clear-cut correlations between the morphology or chemistry of an individual and its personality, let alone its psychotype. There is evidence that these mental processes which we perceive in a simple way, are supported in this whole chemical and structural "cloud", often maintaining their impress despite local physical modifications. So yeah, it is not that easy to pinpoint, and I'm convinced this is not yet done.
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    Whatever be the case, psychologically-speaking, as I mentioned with other occasions, I view the type as a very fundamental and unconscious preference, all the other being based on it, and this is what makes, IMO, the type resilient to change - it is very core and pretty much everything in the psyche is built upon it. It looks even impossible to make an analogy with any other kind of preference that can come to my mind, as they seem all based on non-intrinsic causes, unlike what I preceive this case to be, but an example could give you some shallow insight. Think of a psychological or biological reaction of an individual against a certain external agent - allergy, idiosyncracy, etc - it is not sound to expect it to be the cause of a change on itself, rather the contrary, to tend to preserve itself [1], unless it is exposed to some aggregate of external factors which has to be precise - but not necessarily unique - and unlikely to occur spontaneously, though not necessarily impossible to happen.

    I find no common-sense in believing that a preference can change exclusively based on itself. I am justified to believe that this must be the case, as long as the most intuitive way to view the Sociotype is as a manner of cognition which precedes any other mental function. Cognition means how one fundamentally views things; obviously, at such low level, unaffected by the actual content of information, alternatives are IMO inherently rejected. Let alone that out of experience we observe that the core personal preferences are generally stable, which alone would be a reason to assume a solid persistence, but unlike the cognition, such preferences are dependent on data, which can be external and not necessarily subject to their influence - for example you are religious but there are different, even contradictory things you learned by the same or other means as the former. However, cognition is formal, *all* the information that is accumulated inherits - or perhaps more appropriately "instances" - its properties.
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    Oh shit, you moved heavy Ti/Fe people in here, Atlast. God bless you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Agee The Great View Post
    Oh, you never said you wanted "proof". There is no "proof". Socionic is a theory, so I don't know why you made this thread if you wanted proof. But if you use common sense, then you'll see that I am right.

    You're focusing on whether neuroplasticity can change a person's type or not...Why do people have these types in the first place? Do you think we start off as a blank slate? If your notion of plasticity changing a person's type was even conceivable than that means people change types all the time, because the brain does adapt extremely fast and it changes at every moment. But that's not the case is it.
    Quote Originally Posted by Agee The Great View Post
    Exactly. End of thread.
    Ah, I did not want proof at all and did not mean what I said as a fault, but instead as a check. I did not expect anybody to be in a position to offer solid proof for their claims (aside from explanation and a few supporting connections to the real world/scientific community) and can only speculate on such things cautiously. Thus, I find any confident conclusions to be of suspect. I'm just interested in the varying ideas we have regarding the connection between neuroplasticity and socionics type. However, some ideas have more legitimacy than others, and I found your and Esaman's proposed answers to be both articulate and perfectly possible.

    Note also that the brain can change quickly or slowly depending on its use. Muscle memory has some truth to it, and might be applied to any mental or physical skill; the longer we make use of a chain in our brain the stronger it becomes and the longer it lingers. Compare a drug addict of 1 month to one of 1 year; drastically different recovery lengths.
    Quote Originally Posted by The Ineffable View Post
    I think one needs not to abdicate from a different view due to the limitation given by your options, as they present IMO a (unintentional) false dilemma. I am not required to approve or disprove of this neuroplasticity in order to have a different opinion.

    First of all, I don't think that the type has to necessarily stand in one's morphology. Even if so, the determining mechanism can be so complex that we cannot even dare to imagine at our level of understanding. Imagine the possibility that types are determined by slight, but complex differences in chemical ratios - say in blood, "0.01% higher protein X, 0.0024 less salt Y, whatever hormone Z, [... and so on ...]". There can plausibly exist obscure, but precise and self-sustaining supporting mechanisms - in the end, life itself is an apparent tower of cards that somehow manages to stand despite the changes in the environment. This would be just one idea.

    Now, I am more inclined to think that the type is a setting, rather than a configuration in substance. Probably energetic - you know, like polarization & shit. Pretty much how a memory, or how a though, or a feeling is set. I don't know what exactly these phenomena are supported on, materially, however I am not aware of direct, clear-cut correlations between the morphology or chemistry of an individual and its personality, let alone its psychotype. There is evidence that these mental processes which we perceive in a simple way, are supported in this whole chemical and structural "cloud", often maintaining their impress despite local physical modifications. So yeah, it is not that easy to pinpoint, and I'm convinced this is not yet done.
    ---

    Whatever be the case, psychologically-speaking, as I mentioned with other occasions, I view the type as a very fundamental and unconscious preference, all the other being based on it, and this is what makes, IMO, the type resilient to change - it is very core and pretty much everything in the psyche is built upon it. It looks even impossible to make an analogy with any other kind of preference that can come to my mind, as they seem all based on non-intrinsic causes, unlike what I preceive this case to be, but an example could give you some shallow insight. Think of a psychological or biological reaction of an individual against a certain external agent - allergy, idiosyncracy, etc - it is not sound to expect it to be the cause of a change on itself, rather the contrary, to tend to preserve itself [1], unless it is exposed to some aggregate of external factors which has to be precise - but not necessarily unique - and unlikely to occur spontaneously, though not necessarily impossible to happen.

    I find no common-sense in believing that a preference can change exclusively based on itself. I am justified to believe that this must be the case, as long as the most intuitive way to view the Sociotype is as a manner of cognition which precedes any other mental function. Cognition means how one fundamentally views things; obviously, at such low level, unaffected by the actual content of information, alternatives are IMO inherently rejected. Let alone that out of experience we observe that the core personal preferences are generally stable, which alone would be a reason to assume a solid persistence, but unlike the cognition, such preferences are dependent on data, which can be external and not necessarily subject to their influence - for example you are religious but there are different, even contradictory things you learned by the same or other means as the former. However, cognition is formal, *all* the information that is accumulated inherits - or perhaps more appropriately "instances" - its properties.
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    [1] - generally, manifestations that are not due to external factors, when they reach the point to be observable, they already have behind a mechanism of preservation.
    Very well put. I've gathered (I think) that you believe that type is built upon a foundation of preference since day 1, and that cognition is a process that supersedes physical brain structure in that it is reliant and affected by one's foundational typological preference. In that way, I agree with you, should this unconscious preference exist. I should think something along those lines does, for I've observed much the same IME.

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