Comments on: God Lives In Our Head! http://www.jasonsummers.org/god-lives-in-our-head/ Thinking on everything important Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:08:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason Summers http://www.jasonsummers.org/god-lives-in-our-head/comment-page-1/#comment-206 Jason Summers Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:22:24 +0000 http://www.jasonsummers.org/?p=444#comment-206 That's really interesting. 4% of the U.S. population. That's a LOT. Take 308,000,000 x 0.04 and we get 12,300,000 people who find it difficult if not impossible to understand love or normal emotions.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('206','Jason Summers'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('206','Jason Summers','That\'s really interesting. 4% of the U.S. population. That\'s a LOT. Take 308,000,000 x 0.04 and we get 12,300,000 people who find it difficult if not impossible to understand love or normal emotions.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> That’s really interesting. 4% of the U.S. population. That’s a LOT. Take 308,000,000 x 0.04 and we get 12,300,000 people who find it difficult if not impossible to understand love or normal emotions.
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]]> By: Greg Thompson http://www.jasonsummers.org/god-lives-in-our-head/comment-page-1/#comment-205 Greg Thompson Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:35:15 +0000 http://www.jasonsummers.org/?p=444#comment-205 The book I've been reading called "The Sociopath Next Door" says that fMRI scans revealed that sociopath brains react to emotional words like "love" differently than normal people. In normal people, the soft emotional words trigger the prefrontal cortex thing you were talking about in this post. But in the sociopath brain, they trigger a logical reaction similar to figuring out a geometry problem. In other words, the brain "tries" to figure something out about a problem that has no logical solution. The result is bad basis, hence the sociopath can only emulate how he thinks he SHOULD react to the word based on his observations of how others react under the same conditions. He mimics a response, but inside feels nothing real. According to this book, 4% of the U.S. population are like this.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('205','Greg Thompson'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('205','Greg Thompson','The book I\'ve been reading called \"The Sociopath Next Door\" says that fMRI scans revealed that sociopath brains react to emotional words like \"love\" differently than normal people.\r\n\r\nIn normal people, the soft emotional words trigger the prefrontal cortex thing you were talking about in this post. But in the sociopath brain, they trigger a logical reaction similar to figuring out a geometry problem. In other words, the brain \"tries\" to figure something out about a problem that has no logical solution. The result is bad basis, hence the sociopath can only emulate how he thinks he SHOULD react to the word based on his observations of how others react under the same conditions. He mimics a response, but inside feels nothing real.\r\n\r\nAccording to this book, 4% of the U.S. population are like this.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> The book I’ve been reading called “The Sociopath Next Door” says that fMRI scans revealed that sociopath brains react to emotional words like “love” differently than normal people.

In normal people, the soft emotional words trigger the prefrontal cortex thing you were talking about in this post. But in the sociopath brain, they trigger a logical reaction similar to figuring out a geometry problem. In other words, the brain “tries” to figure something out about a problem that has no logical solution. The result is bad basis, hence the sociopath can only emulate how he thinks he SHOULD react to the word based on his observations of how others react under the same conditions. He mimics a response, but inside feels nothing real.

According to this book, 4% of the U.S. population are like this.

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