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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8940613" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I mean, it's a bit dangerous to assume that human brains operate on the same principles at all re: safeguards/system maintenance. It's not just the brain, either - we have an entire endocrine system which influences how we're thinking (something 99% of sci-fi authors and transhumanists before about 2005 seemed to be unaware of or chose to ignore) and which is a big part of how we think (hence all the conventional "brain upload" stories were pretty nonsensical, because they assumed a brain without a body would be similar to the person - it wouldn't - you'd need to simulate their endocrine system and other aspects of their body too - more modern SF does tend to recognise this).</p><p></p><p>All that said, the prefrontal cortex at least definitely has <em>some</em> moderating functionality re: social behaviour. As someone with severe inattentive ADHD (i.e the "funny" kind rather than the bouncing off the walls kind), where this doesn't work as well, I know how problematic it can be when it doesn't!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8940613, member: 18"] I mean, it's a bit dangerous to assume that human brains operate on the same principles at all re: safeguards/system maintenance. It's not just the brain, either - we have an entire endocrine system which influences how we're thinking (something 99% of sci-fi authors and transhumanists before about 2005 seemed to be unaware of or chose to ignore) and which is a big part of how we think (hence all the conventional "brain upload" stories were pretty nonsensical, because they assumed a brain without a body would be similar to the person - it wouldn't - you'd need to simulate their endocrine system and other aspects of their body too - more modern SF does tend to recognise this). All that said, the prefrontal cortex at least definitely has [I]some[/I] moderating functionality re: social behaviour. As someone with severe inattentive ADHD (i.e the "funny" kind rather than the bouncing off the walls kind), where this doesn't work as well, I know how problematic it can be when it doesn't! [/QUOTE]
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