Monday, June 23, 2008

The Brain Mind Dicotomy

The Economist suggests this week that there is new evidence from brain imaging for this effect, in which people value more the things that they possess than those which they do not. The article cites results from brain imaging studies, from studies in non-human primates, and from reasoning from evolutionary theory. This is another example of the brain functioning less rationally than the mind thinks it functions.

Incidentally, the Washington Post today has an article with new evidence that the brains of homosexuals respond in some ways more like those of heterosexuals of the opposite sex than like those of members of the same sex. More evidence that homosexuality is a function of the way the brain is wired rather than a choice to act in ways opposed to the way the brain inclines one to act.

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