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i have been in an absolutely manic state of creativity lately and, while on the one hand it is really cool and interesting, on the other hand it is a lot to handle. i don't know where this came from, but it has literally been keeping me up at night, to the point where i get 5 or so hours of sleep and then have to wake up and go to work. today at ak
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i also somewhat inherently distrust science to some extent, especially when it comes to analyzing human behavior. remember the days when little girls who masturbated had their clitorises cut off and race was biological and queers were mentally unsound? yeah.
that is not at all to say that a lot (or even most) of it can't be right, or isn't, just that i hesitate to fully believe anything i read in a biology book. the points you made from your neuro class do seem to make sense tho, and are certainly observable truths on some level, whether biological or not. and what your friend said makes total sense too, assuming it's true.
admittedly i don't know much of anything about neurobiology, but i'm still waiting for a convincing argument concerning anything about 'human nature', and that's not sarcasm, i really would be interested to hear one.
either way, those things definitely make sense. i guess i'm still struggling with the nature vs. nurture debate myself, because the answer to that would make a big difference in how i think of and deal with things. even tho jealousy would still be undesirable, it would be a lot easier to live with if it were biologically hardwired. on the other hand, if i somehow found out that it was mostly a social construct, i think i'd have to force myself to work a lot harder in dealing with it and be much more openly critical of people who weren't.
either way, it fuckin sucks. i wish someone could just give me an answer about this, but it seems as tho for every argument made in favor of one side, another one pops up supporting the other side.
life is hard. ha.
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