Reply #19: You got it right. It makes me feel good . .

[msmcghee]

. . to read about psychology and brain science and figure things out in terms that make sense to me - rather than accept the existing paradigm because that's what everybody else believes. And I do enjoy it. Although there are a few neuroscientists whose recent research has led them in this direction.

Added on edit: I don't think I'd say "I believe all this" in the sense you said it. It's more like this is an hypothesis that seems to make sense to me. It would be cool to find out it was true (or somewhere close) but I'm neither a neuro-scientist nor a psychologist and it will take some of those to determine if this hypothesis is a useful theory. And then, even highly useful theories in psychology are almost certain to be overturned by even better ones as times go by.

In the meantime I'll keep on reading and speculating because it feels good. If you think this hypothesis is wrong feel free to show me an example from your experience where it fails. I'm always open to new evidence.