Innate Or Skin Deep Attitudes And The Brain
I have been speculating about the difference between innate atitudes as the conscious representation of a person's needs, especially needs due to the subconscious effect of instincts and between the skin deep atitudes due to taking for granted, what has been implanted superficially into the mind by education, brainwashing, social norm. As a few examples, I have distinguished between innate and skin-deep atheism, religiousness, monogamy, egalitarianism.
I have been speculating about the difference between innate atitudes as the conscious representation of a person's needs, especially needs due to the subconscious effect of instincts and between the skin deep atitudes due to taking for granted, what has been implanted superficially into the mind by education, brainwashing, social norm. As a few examples, I have distinguished between innate and skin-deep atheism, religiousness, monogamy, egalitarianism.
This study indicates, that this difference is indeed visible in the brain:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120122201240.htm
"A neuro-imaging study shows that personal values that people refuse to disavow, even when offered cash to do so, are processed differently in the brain than those values that are willingly sold.
"Our experiment found that the realm of the sacred -- whether it's a strong religious belief, a national identity or a code of ethics -- is a distinct cognitive process,"
"Sacred values prompt greater activation of an area of the brain associated with rules-based, right-or-wrong thought processes, the study showed, as opposed to the regions linked to processing of costs-versus-benefits.""
