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Is everybody the same in their minds? The "default" beginning of the brain is the sam

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  • 25-07-2011 10:19pm
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    CorkMan
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    We are all born in the 1st place without knowing who we are, looking at our point of view now. Our parents might not even have a name for us. But as we grow up we know our name and intake all our individual experiences, which stay in our mind and plays a part in our personality and "who we are."

    But, how should I word it, does everybody have the same "code" in their brain that is similar to all of us, the defaulted version of us. We have our names and our individual lives of course, but is everybody essentially the same underneath all of that? I know we have introverts and extroverts, and some people might have an innate stronger drive, but when I talk to myself in my head (internal monologue?) is everybody else the same in that manner?

    (BTW, I don't know a single bit about what "makes" character or anything, but I am interested in this.)


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    krd
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    There's no way of gauging if "we're all the same"

    We're most likely not.

    Some people are born with slightly damaged brains. There are kinds of little flukes that can happen to the brain to make people different.

    Some people are really stupid. And it's nothing to do with their parents.

    We don't all look the same. Why would we think the same?

    Some people are tall, some people are short. Why would the brain be any different? It doesn't matter what your parents were like or your personal experiences. That won't have much of an effect on your height.


    There are psychological phenomena - where people tend to act in a uncanny similar way. And there's also similar phenomena which have people acting in radically different ways to each other.


    One reason we have trouble getting on with each other and can't understand each other is how different we are from each other.


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    TrollHammaren
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    I tend to believe that a person's behaviour stems from an interaction between biological propensities and and socialisation. I don't believe humans are born with a set personality, but I don't believe we're a completely blank slate.


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