Comments on: Wired to Connect

By: Idetrorce

Idetrorce — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:41:48 +0000

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce

By: Doug McKee

Doug McKee — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:59:13 +0000

Sorry Jared, he’s correct.
The automaticity of our thinking becomes less and less open to change the more we use the same response. Think about learning to drive. We had to think about every detail at first but now drive without thinking about it at all. Our thinking is the same.
Unless we consciously take control of the thought, it follows its usual course.
Statistically the likelihood of significant change in our lives after age 35 is ZERO.
A phenomenon called Long Term Potentiation changes learning to rote response after a certain number of repititions. Saves processor time but locks us into repeating our past.
If reasoning were actual and not theoretical, we would not be afraid of flying.
Sincerely,
Doug McKee

By: jared allen

jared allen — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:26:35 +0000

I like the work you have done showing how the brain can change through our experiences. Yet, to say that these changes in our brain in turn “determine” how we respond to situations in life is false. No matter what is going on in our brain, all of us have the decision to respond however we wish. Brain activity may INFLUENCE us, but it does not determine us!

By: Joaquin Solis

Joaquin Solis — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:23:25 +0000

People avoid direct contac with other, now email is a very good tool to everybody conect with everybody, without embarrassment, but in other hand is more impersonal.
Face to face you can sense people spirit and receive feelings and also listen to.