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If you want to Understand Propertarianism, P-logic and P-law then get started with Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition.
https://www.amazon.com/Individualism-Western-Liberal-Tradition-Evolutionary/dp/1089691483/Updated Dec 6, 2019, 7:44 AM
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https://save-send-delete.blogspot.com/2014/06/im-glad-comanche-lost-and-other-things.html?fbclid=IwAR0l2kCNOBimkgkHtsEtvYVNA7ZFm1ndF3oeUYiXMkuBlZjszCBPCFJiu44Updated Dec 5, 2019, 9:44 PM
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HYPOTHALAMUS
(Regarding drastic difference in women taking ‘the pill’.)
(Hypothesis: the female brain evolved to sustain moods in the care of children, and absent children the female brain does not mature, and in the absence of the reproductive cycle declines. Which is what we see in the data. So without competition boys infantilize and without children girls infantilize – and infantilizing causes behavior in humans similar to caged animals in zoos.)
WHAT DOES THE HYPOTHALAMUS DO?
The hypothalamus is a portion of the brain that contains a number of small nuclei (groups of neurons that work to calculate specialized functions). All vertebrate brains contain a hypothalamus. In humans, it is the size of an almond. The hypothalamus links the nervous system to the endocrine system via the pituitary gland and is responsible for the regulation of multiple metabolic processes and other functions of the autonomic nervous system (what you can’t control.
By synthesizing and secreting certain neurohormones, called Releasing Hormones or Hypothalamic Hormones (messengers), that stimulate or inhibit the secretion of hormones from the pituitary gland, causing your body to react to real or imagined information by translating information for the pituitary gland. Using these messages, the hypothalamus controls body temperature, hunger, important aspects of parenting and attachment behaviors, thirst, fatigue, sleep, and circadian rhythms.
The human male and female reproductive cycles are controlled by the interaction of hormones from the hypothalamus and anterior(front of the) pituitary with hormones from reproductive tissues and organs. When the reproductive hormone is required, the hypothalamus sends a hormone to the pituitary. This causes the release into the blood of a hormone (‘follicle-stimulating’) that promotes the formation of ova or sperm, and another hormone (‘luteinizing”) that stimulates ovulation in females and the synthesis of androgen in males.
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IF THIS HOLDS UP, THAT’S THE END OF LONG TERM USE OF THE PILL – AND IT EXPLAINS … A LOT.
Key brain region smaller in birth control pill users
Neuroscience News
Summary: A new neuroimaging study reveals women who take oral contraception have reduced hypothalamic volume compared to women who do not take the pill. Smaller hypothalamic volume was associated with increased negative emotions and depression risk.
Source: RSNA
Researchers studying the brain found that women taking oral contraceptives, commonly known as birth control pills, had significantly smaller hypothalamus volume, compared to women not taking the pill, according to a new study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Located at the base of the brain above the pituitary gland, the hypothalamus produces hormones and helps regulate essential bodily functions including body temperature, mood, appetite, sex drive, sleep cycles and heart rate.
Structural effects of sex hormones, including oral contraceptive pills, on the human hypothalamus have never been reported, according to the researchers. This may be in part because validated methods to quantitatively analyze MRI exams of the hypothalamus have not been available.
“There is a lack of research on the effects of oral contraceptives on this small but essential part of the living human brain,” said Michael L. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D., FACR, professor of radiology at the Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and medical director of MRI Services at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. “We validated methods for assessing the volume of the hypothalamus and confirm, for the first time, that current oral contraceptive pill usage is associated with smaller hypothalamic volume.”
Oral contraceptives are among the most popular forms of birth control and are also used to treat a host of conditions, including irregular menstruation, cramps, acne, endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome. According to a 2018 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, from 2015 to 2017 approximately 47 million women aged 15-49 in the U.S. reported current use of contraceptives. Of those, 12.6% used the pill.
In his study, Dr. Lipton and colleagues recruited a group of 50 healthy women, including 21 women who were taking oral contraceptives. All 50 women underwent brain MRI, and a validated approach was used to measure hypothalamic volume.
This shows the brain scans of the hypothalamus
Brain MRI depicting hypothalamus in red. The image is credited to the study author and RSNA.
“We found a dramatic difference in the size of the brain structures between women who were taking oral contraceptives and those who were not,” Dr. Lipton said. “This initial study shows a strong association and should motivate further investigation into the effects of oral contraceptives on brain structure and their potential impact on brain function.”
Other findings from the study, which Dr. Lipton described as “preliminary,” were that smaller hypothalamic volume was also associated with greater anger and showed a strong correlation with depressive symptoms. However, the study found no significant correlation between hypothalamic volume and cognitive performance.
Co-authors are Ke Xun Chen, M.D., Sandie Worley, B.S., Henry J. Foster, B.S., David Edasery, M.D., Shima Roknsharifi, M.D., and Chloe Ifrah, B.A.
Funding: The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and by The Dana Foundation.Updated Dec 5, 2019, 8:59 PM
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https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-warns-not-allow-us-military-operations-against-173008094.html?soc_src=community&soc_trk=fbWell, that only leaves war with Mexico.
Which will solve the problem?Updated Dec 5, 2019, 8:58 PM
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The Art of Attention-Wh_ring: Marxist, Postmodern, Feminist “Attention-Wh_ring by Complaining” serves one purpose: To undermine art, aesthetics, heroics, that create cohesion between very different genders and classes, by false-promise that we can be free of Darwinian-difference.
Series:
|Art|: Monument < Illustration < Decoration < Marking < Attention-whoring
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Computer science appears to have made it possible for us to imagine ourselves correctly: “why doesn’t it understand or “why doesn’t it know” was a common question in the first generation of computer users. Today, every generation knows it’s just a machine and needs explicit instructions on its own terms.
Programming had the same effect. Databases even more so. And the current ‘pseudo-ai-tools’ have reached the point of producing design patterns “organizations that fulfill purposes”: the grammars of software whether relational database, hierarchical database, Text-Index, Bayesian (“ai”), Object, Functional, Script, Speech, Touch, Text, punc- card, or Switch.
So it is far easier for our generations to understand the brain as a computational device and the mind as our introspection upon it.
But it is still difficult for us to understand that we have surprisingly little agency until we develop sufficient introspection — if we can at all.
The principle difference in my thought is that I see mankind as largely consisting of semi-conscious beings riding an unconscious elephant, with a very, very, few of us able to look in the mental mirror and recognize the driver…isn’t us.
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Feels good or seems good doesn’t tell you anything. Heroin feels really good. Consciousness gives us access to the entire temporal spectrum from the present moment to the long term, to the condition of our distant future descendants. Choosing that which is good across that spectrum means you’re human. Choosing that which feels good in the present regardless of consequences, means you’re still an animal.
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—“Caesar writes that he had a problem with the Druids. They had the respect of the general populace and did not appear to be easily swung by the normal appeals to a leader’s desire for wealth or to consolidate power. This made them difficult to control.
Caesar writes that in the end the only way to control them was to order that the Druids ‘groves’ be cut down. The normal understanding of this translation from Latin into ‘groves’ is a collection of trees but this may not be right.
Perhaps those ‘groves’ were in fact stone circles.
In order to remove the Druids as an alternative power base that was frustrating Caesar’s attempts to control the British Isles he had to remove their totems of power and rob the Druids of their equipment or arenas to rob them of their respected position in society.”—
Groves were groves. The circles were evolved from home (hearth) burials. Stone circles (i think) from extending home (hearth) burials.
—“megalithic constructions began as early as 5000 BCE in northwestern France[3], and that the custom and techniques spread via sea routes throughout Europe and the Mediterranean region from there.[4][5] The Carnac Stones in France are estimated to have been built around 4500 BCE[6] and many of the formations include megalithic stone circles. The earliest stone circles in England were erected 2500-3000 BCE[7] during the Middle Neolithic (c. 3700–2500 BCE). Around that time stone circles began to appear in coastal and lowland areas towards the north of the United Kingdom. The Langdale axe industry in the Lake District appears to have been an important early centre for circle building, perhaps because of its economic power.[citation needed] Many had closely set stones, perhaps similar to the earth banks of henges, others were made from unfounded boulders rather than standing stones. Recent research shows that two oldest stone circles in Britain (Stenness and Callanish) were constructed to align with solar and lunar positions.[8][9]
Some sites do not contain evidence of human dwelling.[citation needed] This suggests that stone circles were constructed for ceremonies. The variety of the stones excludes the possibility that they had astronomical observation purposes of any precision.”—
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