October 31, 2012
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Empathy represses analytic thought, and vice versa
I suspect further testing would show that not all people classify the same problems as "social" or "analytical". This makes reaching a meaningful resolution difficult, as we would literally be executing two different programs against the same data, consistently producing different results that cannot be reconciled.
Yet more evidence, if any was needed, that the conflicts which consume our society are not about people not knowing the "facts", but are the result of hard-wired neural patterns that are at least partially created the instant sperm meets egg.