I knew it!

Study finds left-wing brain, right-wing brain:

Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work.

In a simple experiment reported todayin the journal Nature Neuroscience, scientists at New York University and UCLA show that political orientation is related to differences in how the brain processes information.

Previous psychological studies have found that conservatives tend to be more structured and persistent in their judgments whereas liberals are more open to new experiences. The latest study found those traits are not confined to political situations but also influence everyday decisions.

The results show “there are two cognitive styles — a liberal style and a conservative style,” said UCLA neurologist Dr. Marco Iacoboni, who was not connected to the latest research.

Again, this is not shocking news to those of us interested in evolutionary psychology. Prometheus Rising explained how this might be some twenty-plus years ago…

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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

It’s the quest for the next evolutionary step that fuels much of the performance and artwork around Breyer P-Orridge, taking something that is common to many people and turning it into a call to the future…

“To be quite frank, we are also encouraging people to do what what we’re doing,” said P-Orridge. “We would hope to encourage and find and locate genetic engineers and people who understand the process of replication and actually redesign the potential of the species. If we want to go into space — which we should as a species — we’re going to have to be physically different.”

This could mean any form of genetic modification and P-Orridge advocates cross-species fertilization in order to achieve the traits that are needed — the human body, he believes, should not be considered sacred.

“I think that’s a great mistake we make as a species to think that this is the end of the evolutionary chain,” said P-Orridge. “It’s not. It’s the end of a primitive evolutionary chain and it’s time to become contemporary modern and accept responsibility for ourselves as a species and redesign ourselves for better or worse.”

read the whole article: here.

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Evolution, Intelligent Design, Arguments from Ignorance.

Unfortunately, it will be a long time before human knowledge, understanding and ingenuity can match… the “cleverness” of several billion years of biological evolution. 
  – Murray Gell-Man, Nobel Prize winning physicist, author of The Quark and the Jaguar.

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I’m an atavism: Red beard, mental illness, evolution.

Many of you are fascinated by the fact that I have brown hair and a red beard (No, really… I have heard you guys when you thought I wasn’t listening).

separated at birth?

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