Rightwingers are mostly religious. They're generally happier than lefties, not only the rich ones, because they believe that people have free choice. The good book says so. Free choice negates hopelessness which increases happiness. Free choice is also why they like lots of jails. People make decisions solely through their own power and should live with the consequences. This, says the righties, is called responsibilty. Responsibility can be lessened by forgiveness, the other religious thing that's amusingly not that big for them, or blame (eg. satan) but are not invoked unless it is in their own self interest. Wealthy people are generally right wing. Aside from not wanting to pay more taxes, they believe they are where they are because they chose/sacrificed/saved/scrimped/etc. to be where they are. Some believe they've been chosen (You will know them by their fruits Matthew 7:16.). Either way, they believe this is no fluke and lord help those who attempt to topple their gravy train.
Lefties are generally brighter. It takes a fair amount of reasoning to find flaws in society and they do so brilliantly. They can and do find victimhood in heaven. They are generally a miserable lot. They believe the system has oppressed those (sometimes themselves but also a group too stupid, in the lefties eye of course, to see for themselves) who have not "made it" in society. One is where one is because the system is skewed that way. If society were constructed different, we'd have a brand new batch of "losers" hence the lucky few should help because it is only dumb luck that they are in the position they are in. There is little personal responsibility, which leads to hopelessness and unhappiness, because the blame is held for the society/nature not the individual. They are not religious ,aside from Marx's opiate of the masses thesis, because they believe religion is a biased man made construct. Ironically, they are far more forgiving to individuals then their religious right counter parts, again because they believe in randomness.
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ReplyDeleteBrain training puts big hurt on intense pain: volunteers learn to translate imaging data into neural-control tool .highlight{background-color:yellow;font-weight:normal} Preliminary evidence indicates that people can quell either temporary or chronic physical pain by learning to use their minds to reduce activity in a key brain area.
Brain-imaging technology now enables individuals to use mental exercises to control a neural region that contributes to pain perception, say neuroscientist Sean C. Mackey of Stanford University and his colleagues.
Both healthy volunteers and chronic-pain patients "learned to control their brains A computer's "brains" are its central processing unit. See CPU. and, through that, their pain," Mackey holds. "However, significantly more testing must be done before this can be considered a treatment for chronic pain."
The new findings appear in the Dec. 20 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Mackey's team studied 32 healthy volunteers, ages 18 to 37. First, each volunteer reported when an adjustable heat pulse applied to a leg produced pain that he or she rated as 7 out of 10, with 10 being equivalent to "the worst pain imaginable." Brain imaging of participants, using a functional magnetic resonance imaging ( fMRI fMRI abbr. functional magnetic resonance imaging ) scanner, showed that this level of pain was accompanied by pronounced blood flow--a sign of intense neural activity--in an area called the rostral 1. pertaining to or resembling a rostrum; having a rostrum or beak. 2. situated toward a rostrum or toward the beak (oral and nasal region), which may mean superior (in relationships of areas of the spinal cord) or anterior or ventral (in relationships of brain areas). anterior cingulate cingulate /cin·gu·late/ (sing´gu-lat) pertaining to a cingulum.
cin·gu·late (snggy cortex.
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Eight of the volunteers then underwent brain training. Each reclined in an fMRI machine that visually displayed activity changes in the person's rostral anterior cingulate cortex. A virtual flame dimmed as activity fell and brightened as activity surged.
While watching this display for 39 minutes, participants tried various mental strategies both to increase and to decrease their brain activity during brief periods of heat-pulse application. The experimenters suggested tactics such as focusing attention away from the pain.
By the end of the training session, the volunteers had learned to raise or lower activity in the critical brain area, the researchers say. The eight volunteers rated pain much higher during robust anterior cingulate cortex activation than during periods of lesser activity in that region.
No such brain-related pain effects occurred for the remaining 24 participants, who were instructed to change their brain activity when they were outside the fMRI machine or in the machine but receiving no feedback, when they received feedback from brain areas unrelated to pain, or when they viewed someone else's pain-related brain activity.
Next, eight chronic-pain patients completed anterior-cingulate-cortex training. Afterward, each reported much less pain--often less than half as much as usual--while he or she mentally quelled the region's activity.
Another four chronic-pain patients used physiological feedback--so-called biofeedback alpha biofeedback presentation of continuous information on the state of the brain-wave pattern, to assist in purposeful increase in the percentage of alpha activity and thus a state of relaxation and peaceful wakefulness.
bi·o·feed·back (b--to learn to control their heart rate, skin conductance airway conductance the reciprocal of airway resistance; the airflow divided by the mouth-to-alveoli pressure difference.
con·duc·tance (kn-dk, and breathing. None succeeded in lessening pain.
Neuroscientist Gary H. Duncan of the University of Montreal calls the new study "a landmark contribution of brain imaging to pain research." It demonstrates that self-controlself-control n. Control of one's emotions, desires, or actions by one's own will.
ReplyDelete..... Click the link for more information. over activity in a specific brain region is possible, paving the way for explorations of neural function far beyond the treatment of chronic pain, he says
Right wingers are generally hard working and religious. They're generally happier than lefties, not only the rich ones, because they believe that people have free choice. The good book says so. Free choice negates hopelessness which increases happiness. Free choice is also why they like lots of jails. People choose decisions solely through their own power and should live with the consequences especially since they made the decision. This, says the righties, is called responsibility. Bad decisions can be lessened by forgiveness, the other religious thing that's amusingly not that big for them, or blame (eg. Satan) but these are not invoked unless it is in their own self interest. Wealthy people are generally right wing. Aside from wanting to pay less taxes, they believe they are where they are because they chose/sacrificed/saved/scrimped/etc. to be where they are. Some believe they've been chosen (You will know them by their fruits Matthew 7:16.). Either way, they believe their wealth is no fluke and lord help those who attempt to topple their gravy train.
ReplyDeleteLefties are generally brighter but lazier. It takes a fair amount of reasoning to find flaws in society and they do so brilliantly. They can and do find victim hood in heaven. They are generally a miserable lot. They believe the system has oppressed those (sometimes themselves but mostly groups too stupid, in the lefties eye of course, to see for themselves) who have not "made it" in society. One is where one is because the system is skewed that way. If society were constructed different, we'd have a brand new batch of "losers" hence the lucky few should help because it is only dumb luck that they are in the position they are in. There is little personal responsibility, which leads to hopelessness, unhappiness and laziness because the blame is held for the society/nature not the individual. They are not religious ,aside from Marx's opiate of the masses thesis, because they believe religion is a biased man made construct. Ironically, they are far more forgiving to individuals then their religious right counter parts, again because they believe in randomness