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0 pointsakvadrako8y ago0 comments

> One idea defines personality as an innate wiring of your cognitive processes given to you at birth.

AFAIK, there isn't anything special about birth which would freeze brain development at that point. Baby brains are quite undeveloped - they don't experience the world like we do.

Your genetics do fix something at the time of conception, but otherwise it's a continual process based on experience.

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personlurking8y ago

Recently, I heard an interesting concept from a long-time clinical psychologist:

"Society constrains and kills you even. You die into your neural configuration. When you're first born you have more neural connections than you will ever in your life, and most of them die. And so, you die into your four-year old self, and between ages 16 and 20, you die into your adult self."

wincy8y ago

I don’t think you should be afraid to mention Jordan Peterson here.

gaius8y ago

What do you think of the Jesuit saying that a character is fixed in the first 7 years? Is there any truth in it?

spyckie28y ago

For the sake of stronger definitions I have clarified the sentiment to express this point.

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