What makes young people vulnerable is not their brains, it's their knowledge and experience deficits, though addressing that would destroy "innocence" because innocence is ignorance. 🧶
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@plexuscrawler
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In a high stakes situation like a house fire, we can expect heightened amygdala activity to make a child freeze up in fear, the older teen to rush in and pull the child out of the fire, and the older adult to emotionally modulate and put out the fire or call for help. 🧶
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I think I'll adress this directly. Yes, teens and 18-25 year olds have a less interconnected myelin network, yes. Though consider that one acts at all from the PFC? 🧶
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@DreisigVil The prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for intentionality, goal-directed behavior. The size of the human PFC is what makes us stand out in the animal kingdom. To suggests one lacks it, is to say one is a mere beast.
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You think I'm in favor of <18s dating >18s? No, I'm not. Especially not when the legal adults reject the humanity of young people along with their PFCs. Legal adults are age bigots who cannot be trusted hold young people in mutual respect as things stand.
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Until I'm debunked, by an emotionally regulated corporate adult, I hereby proclaim myself to be "the one true adult, master of the prefrontal cortex and conqueror of the amygdala."
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Here's my supposedly "pedophile theory" for context: x.com/plexuscrawler/…
I'd expect a rational adult to be able to refute it without going into a childish tantrum. My faith in adults has been broken again yet again.
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Modern authoritarianism is often justified in the name of protecting children~ from digital ID mandates to payment processor boycotts of manga. While there are more mythical reasons for this, I aim to deconstruct the main supposedly scientific pretext: Teen Brain Theory. 🧶
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Look at this "rational adult processing information with a fully myelinated prefrontal cortex," what a fucking joke...
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@IzerGOESON That's from Bronski's Emperical Introduction to Youth. It's okay, though he doesn't challenge the notion that myelination confers rationality (which is why he emphasizes the linking up of the uncinate fasciculus between the pfc and amygdala at 15).
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Modern authoritarianism is often justified in the name of protecting children~ from digital ID mandates to payment processor boycotts of manga. While there are more mythical reasons for this, I aim to deconstruct the main supposedly scientific pretext: Teen Brain Theory. 🧶
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@IzerGOESON I think that section was likely referencing hare2008. Teen do seem to show higher amygdala activity with processing faces in high stress situations. Both teens and older adults use both their amygdalas and PFCs, just in somewhat different ways.
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@Sherkel_64 My citations are pretty mainstream, for the most part. I even cite Jay Giedd.
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@plexuscrawler How much we can accurately diagnose and effectively treat is vastly overstated. How much bureaucrats interfere with what gets published is vastly understated. I'm all for some subjectivity.
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@Sherkel_64 I almost thought it would never happen lol. Turns out, I actually do hold radical views on neuroscience...
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@plexuscrawler With all my respect, I can't believe something this dense and boring got such a heated response. :P
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@banananapudddin @triangel66 @IzerGOESON @umagirlslover @Vanillawhings I'm left wondering where these rational adults even are, they're not living up to their "fully myelinated PFCs." I think if we held people to their own standards, we live in a kids' world, and very few people are really adults.
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Twitter logic
Minor = innocent little baby who can't make any decisions for themselves
Adult = PEDOPEDOPEDO PRED KYSKYSKYS
R@ihateeeethis
@Vanillawhings Ur "bf" is a pedocriminal/groomer He's using a power imbalance based on the age difference, plus the fact that you have the status of "minor" and he's an adult, stay safe… 😶
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@triangel66 @banananapudddin @IzerGOESON @umagirlslover @Vanillawhings I'm sensing your amygdala speaking here kiddo.
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@plexuscrawler @banananapudddin @IzerGOESON @umagirlslover @Vanillawhings youre just fucking insane. youre literally insane and youre going to be tortured in hell when you die for being a disgusting worthless pedophile
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