Brainwashing Tech to Rid the World of All Idealogy

No more religion, no more lefties, no more racists,...

Just force people to undergo a magnetic brainwashing technique to deactivate to problem solving part of your brain. Then you can have world peace.

Scientists used magnetic stimulation to shut down parts of people’s brains

They specifically targeted the posterior medial frontal cortex associated with how the brain detects and solves problems and threats

Participants reported that their belief in God dropped by a third in tests

There was also a 28% increase in positive feelings towards immigrants

http://www.unz.com/isteve/topic/racist-brain/

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy —Randy Hazlick (aka Dr. Demento)

They are just creating more conservatives and Republicans.

I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant that stupid persons are generally Conservative. —John Stuart Mill

This is more bad science journalism (not journalism about bad science, but bad journalism about science).

The posterior medial frontal cortex plays a role in a cognitive bias called choice-supportive bias, in which you ascribe positive characteristics to a thing or position you've chosen after you've chosen it, as in the person who chooses between buying two cars, then comes up with all sorts of reasons why the car he chose was better than the one he didn't.

The research actually showed that applying magnetism to the PMFC reduced choice-supportive bias and allowed them to think in a more open-minded way, i.e. less attached to and motivated to justify their previous positions. So really, the influence of the PMFC can make people more rigid and stubborn.

It's important to remember that the entire brain isn't involved in the romanticized notion we have of higher-order thought. Major portions are still devoted to telling you to run or defend yourself when you hear a noise in a nearby bush, all because millions of years ago that noise could have been made by a deadly predator. We may have left the savannah but the savannah hasn't left us

Ben_Reilly wrote:This is more bad science journalism (not journalism about bad science, but bad journalism about science).

The posterior medial frontal cortex plays a role in a cognitive bias called choice-supportive bias, in which you ascribe positive characteristics to a thing or position you've chosen after you've chosen it, as in the person who chooses between buying two cars, then comes up with all sorts of reasons why the car he chose was better than the one he didn't.

The research actually showed that applying magnetism to the PMFC reduced choice-supportive bias and allowed them to think in a more open-minded way, i.e. less attached to and motivated to justify their previous positions. So really, the influence of the PMFC can make people more rigid and stubborn.

It's important to remember that the entire brain isn't involved in the romanticized notion we have of higher-order thought. Major portions are still devoted to telling you to run or defend yourself when you hear a noise in a nearby bush, all because millions of years ago that noise could have been made by a deadly predator. We may have left the savannah but the savannah hasn't left us

Yup - that makes a lot of sense.

Ben should do science journalism....  

     

Ben_Reilly wrote:This is more bad science journalism (not journalism about bad science, but bad journalism about science).

The posterior medial frontal cortex plays a role in a cognitive bias called choice-supportive bias, in which you ascribe positive characteristics to a thing or position you've chosen after you've chosen it, as in the person who chooses between buying two cars, then comes up with all sorts of reasons why the car he chose was better than the one he didn't.

The research actually showed that applying magnetism to the PMFC reduced choice-supportive bias and allowed them to think in a more open-minded way, i.e. less attached to and motivated to justify their previous positions. So really, the influence of the PMFC can make people more rigid and stubborn.

It's important to remember that the entire brain isn't involved in the romanticized notion we have of higher-order thought. Major portions are still devoted to telling you to run or defend yourself when you hear a noise in a nearby bush, all because millions of years ago that noise could have been made by a deadly predator. We may have left the savannah but the savannah hasn't left us

Psychologists call it reduction of cognitive dissonance.  

Yes, sadly, saber-toothed tigers still exist in our genes.  That's the autonomic nervous system.  That's why I raised my daughters with a saying...panic is a useless emotion.  Another: ...anger is a useless emotion.

Stress Mastery wrote:When we experience excessive stress—whether from internal worry or external circumstance—a bodily reaction is triggered, called the "fight or flight" response. Originally discovered by the great Harvard physiologist Walter Cannon, this response is hard-wired into our brains and represents a genetic wisdom designed to protect us from bodily harm. This response actually corresponds to an area of our brain called the hypothalamus, which—when stimulated—initiates a sequence of nerve cell firing and chemical release that prepares our body for running or fighting.

Most stress problems today don't require us to run and hide from predatory beasts.  Such problems are overcome by simple calm, deliberative thinking.  Hence...never panic, it's a useless emotion is an affirmation I gave my girls.