• DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    12 hours ago

    Conservatives don’t know anything about the person they voted for. They don’t know anything about how their government functions. They don’t know anything about their Constitution.

    I promise they don’t know what an amygdala is or what it does.

  • chaotic_ugly@lemmy.zipEnglish
    341·
    14 hours ago

    For the curious ones, from Psychology Today:

    “A larger amygdala is primarily associated with increased anxiety, heightened emotional reactivity, and stress-related disorders, often acting as a hyper-active “threat detector” Symptoms frequently include persistent fearfulness, depression, irritability, and hypervigilance, as the brain over-processes neutral stimuli as threats.”

    Whoever made the original meme is an absolute moron.

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201311/the-size-and-connectivity-the-amygdala-predicts-anxiety

    • lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      10·
      13 hours ago

      I’m guessing they think it helps them wake up and see the truth that they are being exploited on, while they see people with a smaller amygdala as like mindless sheep that just takes in any info and takes that as doctrine.

      The thing that they don’t consider though, is that fear and anger is often a form of control.

      • GaMEChld@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 hours ago

        It’s because they think we take in information the same way they do.

        The process in which they construct understanding:

        1. Feel something (id)
        2. Come up with an explanation that satisfies id. (Super Ego)
        3. End process

        How real understanding is best constructed:

        1. Feel something
        2. Come up with an explanation that satisfies id.
        3. Ego passes the explanation over to Super Ego.
        4. Super Ego looks for any aspect of the explanation unsupported by objective fact.
        5. If a gap of knowledge is discovered, ask why recursively until you cannot ask why any more.
        6. Super Ego passes explanation back to id via Ego again.
        7. Id tells you if the explanation feels like it’s bulletproof.
        8. Go to sleep because that was a lot of hard cognitive work and you deserve it, and the other person didn’t do any of this work.
        9. Understand that the other person that opposes you likely didn’t work as hard as you to disprove yourself.
        10. Listen to them call you lazy for not doing the work.
        11. Present Day

        You can’t change minds if you don’t know how their minds work.

  • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    14 hours ago

    Funny how conservatives aren’t afraid of disease. You probably need a decent frontal lobe for that.

    • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
      7·
      14 hours ago

      They are so afraid that they pretend to ignore diseases all together.

  • sanbdra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 hours ago

    Internet arguments about brain science always get wild fast. Most of the time the science is a lot more complicated than the memes make it look.

  • drath@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    22 hours ago

    Ah, the typical nazi idea of correlating random body measurements with complex behavioral and emotional patterns.

  • Cattail@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    14 hours ago

    Lol inferior agenda. It probably means they think whatever they got going on is better, but it sounds like they’re bragging about bad time management

  • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    1 day ago

    Went to a Mediterranean restaurant for dinner with my wife. We celebrated her birthday, and so decided to check the dessert menu. We generally don’t get dessert, just never really lie thing, but this menu has a dessert called amygdalopita, which piques my interest. Why would they name it after part of the brain?

    And so upon further research, we discovered that the Greek word αμύγδαλο (amýgdalo) means almond. And this really got my wheels turning, because it brought back memory of EMT classes, way back in like 2003, where they talked about the amygdala being named such due tonit being almond shaped.

    So I like a dessert that not only tasted great, but also helped me make connections, maybe fire off some neurons I hadn’t in a while.