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At 02:17 PM 1/15/2007, PJ wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">So maybe the question is, why
are some people more fearful than others? Why are some people wired
with over-active amygdalas and other's aren't? Now that's a
cognitive enhancement we could use right now.</blockquote><br>
What we need is a big magnifying glass to get in there and dig around a
bit.<br><br>
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<font size=2>"The next step, Canli said, is to try to find out
<i>why</i> the amygdala lights up more in some people than others.
"No one knows," he said. "Imaging is a fantastic tool to
discover these relationships and to localize them in the brain in the
context of the specific tasks that people do. But to explain the biology
underlying these phenomena, we will have to go to lower levels of
analysis, particularly molecular biology."
(</font><font face="Verdana" size=2>Lisa Trei, Stanford)<br><br>
</font>Natasha<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a>
<dd>Design Media Artist - Futurist
<dd>PhD Candidate,
<a href="http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/researchcover/rcp.asp?pagetype=G&page=273">
Planetary Collegium </a>
<dd>Proactionary Principle Core Group,
<a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy
</a><a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Institute</a>
<dd>Member, <a href="http://www.profuturists.com/">Association of
Professional Futurists</a>
<dd>Founder, <a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts
& Culture</a> <br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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