| forevercloud3000 said:
And I do agree that aspects of our life are what create our individual "personalities". I am just exclaiming that "sexual preference" isn't part of a personality at all. Limp wrists, lisps when you talk(which comes from the brain trying to pronounce every single phonetic sound instead of ending abruptly like most people do....try it and u will notice you lisp), the way you dress,etc all occure when your brain starts interpreting external stimuli.....yet the way each of us percieves things is also dictated by internal brain function. The brain sees what is happening and tells you to either imitate, repel, or alter behavior to suit you as an individual. Some of these are dictated by the brain hormone levels I spoke of earlier. at least that is my hypothesis of the issue. |
Okay, just wanted some clarification. A few thoughts though...
I don't think limp wrists and lisps should be grouped the same as the way you dress. In some cases, limp wrists and lisps aren't a result of learned behavior. For example, difficulty speaking can be the result of a disorder in a person's motor cortex, that regulates voluntary muscles (which could occur because of head trauma or they could simply be born that way). In that case, it could simply be due to the physical state of a person's brain. I don't think people develop limp wrists or lisps as a result of what they experience. I have no way of knowing though.
As for the second bolded statement, there's probably a lot of truth to that statement. But, it's a two-way street. There's an input (external stimuli), and the brain processes that stimuli. Both the brain and the external are ultimately the sole factors in how a person thinks/acts. Where you and I probably differ is the fact that I don't believe most people's brain function differs in any major way. In any case though, I don't think we can prove whether brain function or external stimuli is the bigger factor (it probably varies from person to person anyway). I personally doubt that people are born predisposed to specific tendencies, at least in any major way, but that's just my own opinion.
