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There have been various articles alluding to the notion that Liberals have a greater connection with the Amygdala and its attachment to the limbic system where as Republicans/Conservatives use their rational prefrontal cortex to make decisions rather than base responses. (newer brain v older brain).

This post however is more about what I believe occurs with heightened or highly sensitised Amygdala. Generally it would appear that more creative types are right hemisphere dominant which ...

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In the image of Aliens or GOD?

From all my readings I have yet to see a concept that humankind is possibly being moulded through something other than evolution (or via standard religious method). Such as intended design. This isn't intelligent design in the current Christian context.

Now in a biblical context we have humankind being a physical entity that can interact and actualise the plans of "GOD". As I have said before higher levels of intelligence have ...

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Consider the following - On intelligences that (are innate?)

Howard Gardner - Harvard University

Theorizes that there are actually eight different kinds of intelligence. There are different mental "languages" that people use for thinking.

Each is listed below, with examples of pursuits that make use of them.

1. Language (linguistic abilities) - writer, lawyer, comedian.
2. Logic and math (numeric abilities) - scientist, accountant, ...

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I have major problems with those that develop so called IQ tests, because the tests themselves are often representative of the innate type of the person(s) that compiled them (Have you ever done an IQ test written by a sensing type person, where intelligence seems to be nothing more than recollection of facts? versus an IQ test written by intuitive people?.. and possibly even was it swayed by feeling intuition or thinking intuition!?!). Often the tests are nothing more than tricks for mind performance... ...

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Take a look at this article entitled "Functional and Anatomical Cortical Underconnectivity in Autism: Evidence from an fMRI Study of an Executive Function Task and Corpus Callosum Morphometry".

Findings: "These findings suggest that the neural basis of altered cognition in autism entails a lower degree of integration of information across certain cortical areas resulting from reduced intracortical connectivity".

http://keck.ucsf.edu/~houde/sensorim.../MAJust07a.pdf ...

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