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The neurons in your brain are biased toward certain other neurons. That's how it works. Bias is fundamental. Embrace it. It will embrace us back. It's time the human super organism wakes up.

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The study of bias is moving out of philosophy and psychology and into neuroscience. Thanks to what has already been learned from brain research (esp. split-brain studies and fMRI research) it is now possible to theorize that our brain processes ideas unconsciously by comparing them with existing beliefs and generating an emotional cue (satisfaction, annoyance, anger, outrage) that allows the left-brain interpreter function to generate conscious pro or con arguments to justify the emotion. ... Thus, we are all biased, and yes, we are intrinsically blind to it.

If you are unfamiliar with the left-brain interpreter function, read any of Dr. Michael S, Gazzaniga's books for the general public, from "The Social Brain" (1985) through "The Ethical Brain" (2006).

If you are interested in a summary of what neuroscience has learned about our brain's functioning and how it makes possible a "Tribal Programming Theory of Human Behavior," I recommend my own book, "Man by Nature: The Hidden Programming Controlling Human Behavior."

Adam Leonard

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