Neurology and Neuropathy

     In The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr shared in chapter two about how our daily interactions change the mapping of our brain, that we learn to associate and incorporate different things together. Our brains sees one thing and signals in our brain fire up, pairing something with something else. My question then is, does our upbringing truly define us?

     Just as the babies were taught to hate books and flowers, could parents condition us to like certain things? One of the main things I wanted to talk about was something we think that we're born as. 

     Sexuality is a big topic when it comes to many things. Marriages, religion, whether you're born heterosexual, homosexual, pansexual, bisexual. You name it. But what if the only reason we think we're born someway is because when we were younger, our brain managed to attribute specific sexes to love? As we grow up, our brains constantly connect neurons together, but what if we can condition ourselves to even change our sexuality? Doesn't this make you curious? That your brain may possibly hardwire it into thinking that we're heterosexual/homosexual? What about when gay marriage was allowed? People who didn't possibly seem bisexual professed to be bisexual, but what if that was because our brain then just created a pathway of attributing love between a partner to both sexes?

     It doesn't even have to be sexuality what we're talking about. Aren't you curious to know if our brain could hardwire itself to instantly hate certain races because of it's pairing of a specific race to inferiority? What do you think? Is our brain capable of these things?

- Jeremy Daniel Lucero