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There's one critical nuance here on the physiological issue. Physiological differences imply that an issue is a product of biological, physical, or other source
by rjf72 8y ago
There's one critical nuance here on the physiological issue. Physiological differences imply that an issue is a product of biological, physical, or other sources outside of individual choice or mental mechanisms, but this is not necessarily so. A great example of this is the difference between amateur and master chess players. An entirely different area of the brain is used when masters analyze a position than when amateurs do. So the knee-jerk reaction there would be to say that then that's evidence that masters are just somehow physiologically different. Of course that's false. Everybody begins with the 'amateur brain'. It's just that dedicated training and development physiologically changes the individual.
So the problem here is that our ability to observe physiological differences, particularly given the development of EEG/MRI/CT/etc, has radically outpaced our ability to have any clue what they mean. The point being that just because a "condition" has a physiological manifestation in no way whatsoever then directly implies that the condition is therefore physical or can even be realistically 'treated'. For instance, we're not going to develop a drug to make you a strong chess player anytime in the foreseeable future. And while perhaps you could create a drug to make a master a weak player again, it would almost certainly be little more than a glorified lobotomy.
- dalbasal 8y agoGot a link (or name) for that chess brain mapping study? Sounds interesting? (sorry, tangent)
- rjf72 8y agoThere are an immense amount. The chess player's brain is apparently a popular topic of study! Here's a Google Scholar link for 'chess brain' which turns up lots of relevant studies: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=chess+brain https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=chess+brain
- dalbasal 8y agoKnow which of these deals specifically with the differences between amateur and titled players?
- rjf72 8y agoMany! The third [1] and fourth [2] links specifically talk about the physiological differences between master and amateur brains. I didn't check beyond there, but I expect you could probably find dozens of others. And one very important third link. [3] [1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/35088119 https://www.nature.com/articles/35088119 [2] - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393214002395 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002839321... [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
- dalbasal 8y agothanks!