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this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023
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Every right wing argument always goes back to phrenology. "The brainpan of the ham sandwich race etc."
Very telling that this poster acts like the human brain isn't plastic with different regions growing and shrinking with use or abuse.
The NASA experiments involving before and after brain imaging highlight just how dramatic these changes can be in the few months astronauts spend in space. Hell, a sedentary person taking up a sport and practicing daily within just a month will cause noticable changes in areas of the brain related to things like motor control.
I'm willing to bet rightwing culture, beliefs, and media consumption does a real number on parts of the brain related to processing fear. I wonder how much of what this research found can be attributed to nurture rather than nature. Take a sizeable sample of people then do before and after brain imaging while putting them through a few years of intensive right-wing indoctrination. For example prolonged isolation is already known to cause most people to become more than a bit paranoid and irritable.