saw this in a link from LJ... Just wanted to ask, do you think there is any viable/non-offensive way for a neurological study of such topics to be conducted?
Perhaps these particular researchers, perhaps even most scientific researchers, make the assumptions and have the problems you've described. But neurology itself should be able to encompass all of human behavior, in the hands of truly non-biased researchers. One should be able to study the nature of human sexuality in all forms without marginalizing or creating otherness; these things exist, so they are, tautologically, part of the human experience. Non-biased neurology should seek to learn about the underlying causes, the underlying neurological mechanics, not to attempt to shoehorn them into some set of preconceived notions.
Do you think this is possible?
(personally I think there is both biological and cultural action at work in all human behaviors, but even if something were entirely cultural, it would have some underlying neurological mechanism and this should help to reveal that it is entirely cultural/learned, if that is the case... do you disagree with this?)
Just curious about your views on this topic. I'm not a scientist or anything, but I do enjoy reading people like Dennett in my spare time, and thinking about how minds work. It is something that I think can be understood, or at least understood better, though of course sometimes scientists' biases get in the way.
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Perhaps these particular researchers, perhaps even most scientific researchers, make the assumptions and have the problems you've described. But neurology itself should be able to encompass all of human behavior, in the hands of truly non-biased researchers. One should be able to study the nature of human sexuality in all forms without marginalizing or creating otherness; these things exist, so they are, tautologically, part of the human experience. Non-biased neurology should seek to learn about the underlying causes, the underlying neurological mechanics, not to attempt to shoehorn them into some set of preconceived notions.
Do you think this is possible?
(personally I think there is both biological and cultural action at work in all human behaviors, but even if something were entirely cultural, it would have some underlying neurological mechanism and this should help to reveal that it is entirely cultural/learned, if that is the case... do you disagree with this?)
Just curious about your views on this topic. I'm not a scientist or anything, but I do enjoy reading people like Dennett in my spare time, and thinking about how minds work. It is something that I think can be understood, or at least understood better, though of course sometimes scientists' biases get in the way.