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| Schizo |
 Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject: Developmental history of an individual |
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| Referring to my earlier post concerning unconscious shape identification I have now considered it possible to identify various aspects of a person's development based on how he/she reacts to a symbolic image meant to trigger the subconscious I know they have name it; I just do not know how to spell it. Anyways... this reaction can give indications of a persons past experiences, if we are to assume that the human mind responds with in a finite set of boundaries than it could be possible to, using a system, determine various aspects of their past. |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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Are you a psychologist or something of that nature? Because no offence but personally I think that's a load of crap. You have to have at least some basic starting point as to a person's background or basic symbol recognition isn't going to tell you a whole lot. It may give you an idea of what's going on in that person's head at the time, but as to determining aspects of their past I think that is a ridiculous notion.
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| Schizo |
| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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EX. If someone responds negatively to a certain image meant to provoke the unconscious mind, you could assume that the negative result was a product of a relatively measurable amount of negative reinforcement from past exposure.
I did not say it was possible to know of exact details concerning a persons life, but to know a limited set of possible stimuli which either reinforce negative/positive responses to an image.
While honestly I am in my infancy regarding psycho dynamics, I am assuming it possible to combine and bridge many of the worlds greatest psychological theories and come to a conclusion regarding the human mind.
A good example of this would be the topic of stem cell research. Either you are for, against, or undecided. Just from that you can get an understanding of certain psychological attributes of the person.
The human mind is not infinite in individuality, in fact it is quite the opposite; people are basically all the same with slight variations from person to person. The substructure is basic; variable but basic.
Does not most everyone have two arms, two legs, a body, and a head. What makes the mind any different. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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I see your point a little better but I still don't agree with that. At least not completely.
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| paralith |
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I dislike psychology in general. It's always seemed to me like a black-box kind of discipline. Sure, we form positive and negative associations; but why? What is it about human experience that makes this true? You say all humans have a basic mind and just vary upon that base; so what is this basic mind? Why is it formed the way it is? I think any true understanding of the human mind requires an understanding of how the mind was formed - both its evolution across species and it's physical development within an individual. Give me evolutionary psychology or neurobiology. That makes far more sense.
I agree that the human mind is built upon a basic structure upon which individual differences are built. However, just because our variation is not infinite doesn't mean it's as simple as you're making it out to be. For instance, I disagree with your stem cell example. Maybe some people would only be for stem cell research for certain uses, but avidly against it for others. And that's not an undecided mindset, either.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:50 am Post subject: |
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| paralith wrote: |
| I agree that the human mind is built upon a basic structure upon which individual differences are built. However, just because our variation is not infinite doesn't mean it's as simple as you're making it out to be. |
I couldn't have said it better my self.
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| qwertyman |
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I am quite interested in Psycology, sure some of it is a load of rubbish but some of it is realy interesting.
I am not sure that you could tell much about someone with the experiment you propose, not anything worthwhile anyway.
and what you said about us all being the same with little variations couldnt be more true, its amazing how much a tiny diference in someones mind can make.
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