Re: DIPLOMACY: Memetic Morphing

From: Patrick Wilken (patrickw@cs.monash.edu.au)
Date: Mon Nov 16 1998 - 21:10:31 MST


>I regret that the human emotional system seems to be designed so that high
>levels of stress are needed to really grow up.

Well you better get that level of stress just right: the recent Society for
Neuroscience meeting suggests that childhood abuse (emotional not physical)
may lead to permenant brain damage:

http://biomednet.com/biomednews/conf/sfn98/Monday/story_2.html

ciao, patrick

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