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Dependent more on education from sensory input along with cultural, emotional and environmental influences. This is especially and critically important in those years when humans are imprinted, i.e., the brain absorbs the information and begins to understand to create a mind capable of primal conditioned reflexes and responses. It sets the stage and foundation of the mind, the brain, so future studies, practices and other stimuli allow the mind, the brain, to assimilate, analyze and synthesize those tapes or code that can be pulled from PCR into actions and events to promote species survival.
I quote, “In it not the brain’s output of aggression or the specific areas of the brain associated with aggression that require investigation, as much as the interactional effects of the environmental inputs into the brain which serve to organize and activate those areas into trigger-ready systems that are primed to fire upon the slightest provocations. We shall give less import to the genetic past and a larger role to sensory inputs and cultural information which, especially at an early age, are decisive for the determination of many anatomical, chemical, electrical, and functional properties of the cerebral neurons. We shall recognize that we, modern society, do not feel appropriate sensory information or provide suitable social and emotional settings at the crucial ages for imprinting. Remember, the basis for human hostility is mainly cultural or environmental, aggressive tendencies may be decisively modified by education. Recognize that environmental stimuli may radically affect the physical and chemical development of every organ including the brain.” - Montagu, The Nature of Human Aggression (pg. 217/8)
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