Originally posted by Burning thought
I think it is you who have no idea. Not knowing a few words that science would use does not mean I dont know what Science is. if you are suggesting you know what Science is and if your suggesting ime wrong nad Science can indeed classify people using its evidence then please show me what me, dadudemon and many others in this thread have presented to show how Socially people can become drones and often do.Authority? you do not need Authority, you need common sense and free will, if you are one who requires a mathmatical formulae or scientific paper to understand something so simple then fair enough, but not everyone does.
Its not really individual as soon as it becomes an entire group of peoples and an entire cultural view in the long run.
just to again point out the height of your ignorance, if you were even passingly familiar with any psychological research, you would know that the classification of people into "groups" is impossible, given the variance in human behaviour. Even mental disorder is very difficult to classify in a discrete way as you are suggesting.
I have no idea what kind of study you, dadudemon, or anyone else want (nor do I think a popularity contest will work here, especially when I can name Nobel Laureates who I am echoing) but it wont exist. People don't fit into the groups you are making. ****.
Originally posted by Burning thought
The fact of the matter is, is that i can independantly make decisions myself regardless of what social control/instincts are working on me.
humans have little understanding about the internal motivations for their actions (any intro to social psych textbook), and can be entirely unaware of moral imperatives they follow (found last summer, I'm at home so I really don't have the tools to track the article down, either in Psychological Science or some other Blackwell publication).
Work on split brain patients shows that you can come up with rich narrative for why you did something even though the real reason is obvious (and not the same). This is basically the lifetime work of Michael Gazzaniga, one of the most pre-eminent neuro-scientists on the planet.
The work of Benjamin Libet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Libet) shows that your brain and body have already prepared for action before you even become aware of the intent to make that action.
Superman? Robot man?
Originally posted by Burning thought
Shouldnt be new at all, since its pretty common knowledge to independant thinkers.
a classification of human only you have the ability to provide?