So what makes the mean person mean, or the smart person smart?
Are my genes causing me to be shy or was my childhood lacking something?
Let me then summarize...
Every person has a range. I can never be a mozart, no matter how hard I try. Some people just have dispositions or are genetically inclined toward a certain proclivity. Likewise, some things like IQ are genetically based, to a large extent. That is not to say personality or tendencies cannot be controlled. One can condition people to think and act in many many different ways. We are still to a large extent biological beings. But we are also pyschological and social beings, or what some people call spiritual beings. These things are interrelated. Our genotype influences the observable phenotype. That leads to concepts of the self, and categorization, and all sorts of other good stuff. The environment then provides feedback to us and we are changed. We develop habits, and receive reinforcement or various means and usually at this time know what it is to experience separation from complete dependancy of toddlerhood and so we develop these walls and limit ourselves so our brains can pursue a myelinization process so we can have more rapid firing of neurons in order to process information and create heuristics.
So some things are innate. Some things are learned. It is really the interaction of these things and trajectories taken that influence later adult personality. The child has few coping abilities and so the experiences, good and bad, are cemented deep within one self and so later form behavior and thought patters, most of which in this culture are pretty nuts !
There is evidence that really it is impossible to separate because development is so covariant and co-dependent on the environment in its totality that even ascribing influences to innateness or externalities seems foolish, albeit useful, in holding a model to gain insight and understanding.
That's what I currently think and it's pretty much in line with contemporary developmental theory with their biopsychosocial approach.
you should write a book or something
How do you know I haven't
dear god no.
I think
X951 is put off for some reason by my loquacity, craziness, esotericism, or some other quality that is sometimes ascribed to me. Although I may suggest, that if you don't want to read what I have to say, don't read it. I'll close off with a Moonbeam quote. "It may not be a matter that I'm far out but that you really haven't been anywhere"
Cheers !
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