Zone1 Are Humans a "Blank Slate" When Born?

[Stryder50]

I have read that identical twins can be quite different in personalities but there is also some kind of unseen connection between them so, IMO genetics and environment seem to both influence human development.

When I was young, I lived next door to a family of 9 children. I used to go over there all the time because there was always a lot of diverse things going on as compared to my family with just myself and older sister. I observed the older siblings caring for the younger ones and the parents not having to do as much for the younger children. Their main 'job' was to make sure the older siblings passed along family edicts and values and did not abuse the younger ones.

My best friend when growing up came from a family of 12, spanning nearly two decades in their ages. Older caring for younger was clearly part of the environment in their household. Yet there were distinct differences in personalities and interests.

When growing up in a small town, my mother's two sisters and their families, along with an aunt closer to her age, all lived within a couple of blocks of each other. Tally of me and my siblings, along with the cousins, and there were close to two dozen of us growing up together. Ages ranged a bit over a decade worth of span. Wide range of personality differences.

 

[Stryder50]

From Kirkus Reviews​

If men and women are equal, why have males been the dominant sex virtually throughout history? Here, geneticist Moir and BBC- TV writer-producer Jessel argue convincingly that the answer lies in the difference between the male and female brain. Writing with clarity and style, and documenting their data every step of the way, Moir and Jessel explain how the embryonic brain is shaped as either male or female at about six weeks, when the male fetus begins producing hormones that organize its brain's neural networks into a male pattern; in their absence, the brain will be female. Not surprisingly, there are endless variations in degree of maleness, and mishaps can lead to a male brain in a female body and vice versa. Moir and Jessel include a brain sex test that lets the reader discover just how masculine or feminine his (or her) brain is. For the nonscientist, they translate considerable research into the structural and organizational differences between male and female brains, demonstrating how these differences make men more aggressive and competitive and better at skills that require spatial ability and mathematical reasoning, and women more sensitive to nuances of expression and gesture, more adept at judging character. Women, it seems, are more people-oriented than men, who are more interested in things. Moir and Jessel assert that it is necessary to ``accept who we are before arguing about what we should be,'' and that denying gender differences means ignoring their value. A literate, entertaining, and, for some, surely wrath- provoking presentation of scientific data about the differences between the sexes. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Sex-Difference-Between-Women/dp/0818405430?tag=usmb-20

 

[LibertyWeeps]

This is a common concept in the social/culture war between woke leftism and Mainstream/Moderate/Right wing conservatism. We see the concept in so many woke arguments, suggestions that everyone is the same and that only outside factors can account for any differences between humans.

We see this in:
1. Comparing successful people to unsuccessful people, especially financially.
2. Comparing criminals to law-abiding citizens
3. Comparing men to women and women to men, and the trans movement
4. Comparing races; white, black, asian, latino, arab, etc.

The woke's focus is so often that it had nothing to do with the person, and everything to do with an evil, corrupt, racist, sexist, etc. society. We can just interchange people across all dynamics and the outcomes would be equally different.

I don't buy that.. at all.

1. Successful people have generally great habits, ones that are tried and true, people can learn from, and should inspire others. If you do your best to do what they do from the ground up, you're more likely to succeed. That includes discipline, study, body health, etc.

2. Criminals tend to rise from single-parent households (with a mother as the single parent), and in cultures that rely on a line of victimization.

3. Men and women are very similar up until that 5% where they are completely different as far as physiology, behavioral psychology, etc.

4. Races have genetic differences but are far closer to one another than men and women.

DNA holds memory cores in its strands. So no, we are not complete blank slates when born.

This is why some people are "born masters" of some things, while others struggle with it through their entire lives.

I will take myself for example.
I was born with the curiosity to observe and understand what is going on around me.
I was born with the talents of knowing how to cook, create recipes, bake, create something from nothing, and decypher what dreams mean.

Never known any time of my life I couldn't do these things at will, and be good at them.

Some people are born with the skillsets for numbers and maths. It is just a genetic trait for them.
While someone like me has to fight to try and understand WHY crap like A+B=(Z-Y+4.7).....which is something illogical and moronic.
Yet they get it in a couple of seconds, while I think anybody that is adding and subtracting LETTERS should be placed in an insane asylum.

We can LEARN other things, yes.
Our environment we grow up in does have SOME effect on us.
But as a learning entity with a working brain, we are able to learn other things, comprehend there is more on this planet that what our little environments were we grew up with, and figure out that we can do anything we want to do, within the confines of being human.

 

[Captain Caveman]

This is a common concept in the social/culture war between woke leftism and Mainstream/Moderate/Right wing conservatism. We see the concept in so many woke arguments, suggestions that everyone is the same and that only outside factors can account for any differences between humans.

We see this in:
1. Comparing successful people to unsuccessful people, especially financially.
2. Comparing criminals to law-abiding citizens
3. Comparing men to women and women to men, and the trans movement
4. Comparing races; white, black, asian, latino, arab, etc.

The woke's focus is so often that it had nothing to do with the person, and everything to do with an evil, corrupt, racist, sexist, etc. society. We can just interchange people across all dynamics and the outcomes would be equally different.

I don't buy that.. at all.

1. Successful people have generally great habits, ones that are tried and true, people can learn from, and should inspire others. If you do your best to do what they do from the ground up, you're more likely to succeed. That includes discipline, study, body health, etc.

2. Criminals tend to rise from single-parent households (with a mother as the single parent), and in cultures that rely on a line of victimization.

3. Men and women are very similar up until that 5% where they are completely different as far as physiology, behavioral psychology, etc.

4. Races have genetic differences but are far closer to one another than men and women.

A blank state? No.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I'd say it's 60% genes 40% upbringing, environment and social interactions.

Sorry! Nowhere close to 60%. My disowned brother and I shared the same parents, lived in the same house, had the same upbringing, and you cannot find two more different individuals. He is a liar, a cheat, and a criminal to boot. I have literally nothing in common with him. I have not spoken to him in about 4 years and I do not intend to do so in the future. His personal choices in life led to his downfall.

 

[DennisPTate]

This is a common concept in the social/culture war between woke leftism and Mainstream/Moderate/Right wing conservatism. We see the concept in so many woke arguments, suggestions that everyone is the same and that only outside factors can account for any differences between humans.

We see this in:
1. Comparing successful people to unsuccessful people, especially financially.
2. Comparing criminals to law-abiding citizens
3. Comparing men to women and women to men, and the trans movement
4. Comparing races; white, black, asian, latino, arab, etc.

The woke's focus is so often that it had nothing to do with the person, and everything to do with an evil, corrupt, racist, sexist, etc. society. We can just interchange people across all dynamics and the outcomes would be equally different.

I don't buy that.. at all.

1. Successful people have generally great habits, ones that are tried and true, people can learn from, and should inspire others. If you do your best to do what they do from the ground up, you're more likely to succeed. That includes discipline, study, body health, etc.

2. Criminals tend to rise from single-parent households (with a mother as the single parent), and in cultures that rely on a line of victimization.

3. Men and women are very similar up until that 5% where they are completely different as far as physiology, behavioral psychology, etc.

4. Races have genetic differences but are far closer to one another than men and women.

A number of professional hypnotherapists have done some fascinating research on what people see or hear, if they are regressed in time to even before their birth. I personally do believe that their research indicates the Pre-existence of the human spirit or soul.


The Dr. Ian Stevenson research is relevant as well.

1. About Dr. Ian Stevenson​

Dr. Ian Stevenson (1918-2007) was a psychiatrist who worked for the University of Virginia School of Medicine for 50 years. He was Chair of the Department of Psychiatry from 1957 to 1967, the Carlson Professor of Psychiatry from 1967 to 2001, and a Research Professor of Psychiatry from 2002 until his death. He was also the founder and Director of the University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies investigating parapsychological phenomena such as (1) reincarnation, (2) near-death experiences, (3) out-of-body experiences, and (4) altered states of consciousness and psi. He became internationally recognized for his research into reincarnation by discovering evidence suggesting that memories and physical injuries can be transferred from one lifetime to another. He traveled extensively over a period of 40 years, investigating 3,000 cases of children around the world who recalled having past lives. His meticulous research presented evidence that such children had unusual abilities, illnesses, phobias and philias which could not be explained by the environment or heredity.

Dr. Ian Stevenson's Reincarnation Research - Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife

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[LibertyWeeps]

A number of professional hypnotherapists have done some fascinating research on what people see or hear, if they are regressed in time to even before their birth. I personally do believe that their research indicates the Pre-existence of the human spirit or soul.


The Dr. Ian Stevenson research is relevant as well.

The "spirit" or "soul" is nothing more than stored memory algorithms in ones DNA strands, that is "handed down" to a new birth.
Just like blue eyes, blond hair, or a born intuition for doing something others have to be instructed on.