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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-food/201404/the-cat-nobel-prize-part-ii A study of cats showed that the brain must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever. Humans raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. People raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles. This is part of a series I’m writing in conjunction with my new book, The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons. As explained in a prior post, neuroscientists made the first real strides in understanding how vision works inside the brain by studying cats. (In short, no matter what we’re looking at, neurons in the primary visual cortex break the image down into line segments, as if the entire world consisted of stick figures.) But the neuroscientists responsible for this work, David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, also used cats to study brain development, especially during infancy. For this work, the duo divided a pack of kittens into two cohorts, the horizontal group, and the vertical group. As you can probably guess, the vertical group was raised in a world consisting entirely of vertical lines: the wallpaper inside their cages was black-and-white stripes running floor to ceiling, and the people handling and feeding them wore either solid colors or vertical stripes as well. As a result, these cats saw nothing but vertical lines for the first several weeks of their lives. Meanwhile, other cats were raised in cages lined with (and handled by people wearing exclusively) horizontal stripes, and this group never saw vertical lines. The results were startling. Cats raised in one environment were blind—literally blind—to any lines running the “other” way. Cats raised in a horizontal world, for instance, could see the seats of chairs just fine and would jump up onto them to nap. But they couldn’t see the chair’s legs at all and constantly banged into them. The vertical-world cats had the opposite problem. They weaved around the chair legs like champs but could never find a cozy spot to snooze. These experiments provided some of the first and best evidence for the existence of “critical windows” in brain development. The basic idea is that the brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life or it will remain blind to those sights forever. In this case, because the vertical-world and horizontal-world cats never saw any differently oriented lines during their critical windows, their brains ended up dedicating all their vision neurons to one orientation and neglecting the other. Something similar can happen to human beings. No humans have ever been raised in such stark surroundings, thankfully. But those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects. (You wonder, though, where children raised in a city by Gaudi would fall!) The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain has a critical window when it needs to experience certain stimuli or it won’t get wired up properly. The most obvious example is language: if you don’t learn a language early on, it’s nigh impossible to become truly fluent. To be sure, different brain systems have different critical windows that last remain open for different lengths of time. But in some fundamental way, we’re all like Hubel and Wiesel’s kittens—able to process some things without effort, but crashing into those darn chair legs that our brains, through no fault of our own, simply can’t process.

If you train your brain to think a certain way, you will be blind to truths in front of you. Liberals agree with establishment politicians. They generally agree that these are not great people, but they think these are the better guys who just want to get back to generally screwing us over. Nothing too bad. Just stealing some tax money here and there while taking money to form legislation for special interest. They have trained themselves to hate Trump, so they cannot see the good happening. This study proves what happens when people are raised blind to the reality around them.

I am probably more stunned by liberals not seeing the bigger picture here. They are missing the forest for the trees. Instead of even seeing the trees in front of their face, they are projecting the image of their own self loathing onto the scene, blinded by hatred for themselves. But yes a great day indeed.

What I don't understand is how liberals can't look to Europe and see what has happened because they went woke and let 3rd worlders who hate them waltz into their country. They allowed themselves to be invaded. Very similar to Biden opening the border. Do they think it just a coincidence this happened in the white countries at the same time? Do they think it just a coincidence that Biden mocked Trump for his border wall? Shutting it down immediately, bragging about selling off the materials, and letting in millions of illegals. These are basic facts. All just a coincidence? You, the liberal, think that Trump was trying to build a wall to harm America? Yet it was proven to be a necessity because without the wall it was easy to abandon the border so that millions could get through.

The opposite. You are either asleep, or you have an idea of what is really happening but you have chosen to just be an antagonist. Even if it meant you completely screwed yourself by your "side" winning, you are enjoying joining with the establishment politicians for some reason. Which is weird but whatever.

This is the most interesting time in history. It would be foolish not to pay attention. I mean do what you want to do. If you want to ignore the tectonic shift happening, but history is being made in a way many have no idea about. I can't just pretend like it's not going on. It's like watching the greatest movie ever made play out but in real life.

It's really this simple. What Americans don't realize is Trump is slowly flipping the game board over. Or he's playing Jenga and America has most of it's weight at the bottom with the rest of the world on top. Iran, China, Russia, SA, all teetering. They are closing in on collapsing. This may be a bit hyperbolic, but it is not impossible. The entire system has been built on sand. Trump is redoing the cracked foundation of the US while the rest of the world is collapsing into their weak base. Every other country replaced their concrete with sand because the bankers convinced them it was cheaper to maintain. What liberal Americans don't realize is that if they get in Trump's way now, he won't be able to finish the job. We will be sucked in with the rest of them. What they also don't realize is how bad the system was long before Trump took over. What was planned for humanity by the same people they cheer for daily. God bless Trump. God bless America. Fock the liberals.

The same people who will erode your rights, do not give two focks about their citizens, are telling you the bad men are out to get you. This is what I voted to erase.

Hmm I wonder how the amazing democrats weren't able to do this. It's almost like they were paid by foreign influence to make decisions that went against American citizens best interest.

As Squishny tries to bury my post, Venezuela emptying torture centers. Another win https://x.com/i/status/2009308528784060433

College tuition, electric cars, health care, home buying tax credits. The list goes on. It does not bring prices down.

US cuts trade deficit in half. Thanks Trump. Lowest in 2 decades. https://x.com/i/status/2009260295974178949

He needs to get in line.

Venezuela is going to empty the torture centers. Is this a bad thing libs? https://x.com/i/status/2009308528784060433

I gauran fking tee, a couple of board libs got turned on by this display.

I am. Thanks for acknowledging it.

Homes shouldn't be a store of value. It screws everything up. It's something that degrades over time, especially the sht boxes they build now. Making homes a store of value was a ploy to screw over most people.

Wut? Subsidize home builders? Have you learned nothing about what subsidizing does to markets?

I also assume none of the people being accused can be legally charged with any crimes because everyone involved was already punished right? That would be double jeopardy. If anyone is convicted of fraud in Minnesota, you lose immediately. All your words will obviously be a steaming pile of nonsense, even to you.

If I do or don't, it won't matter. Trump is going to get his way and shape the world as he sees fit. I approve, so I win no matter what. If you disapprove, well you lose. I prefer to be on the winning side. The side with the good guys. Have fun losing daily. Your tirades will continue to amuse us with common sense. Taco.

And what came of it? Obviously not enough to keep the fraud from exploding even further. Q knew this would be a big deal. How is that possible in 2018?

How about No

What goes through these people's heads? Who brings a flag to these things just to burn them?

Taco

Walz told them to chill because he knows the insurrection act is coming and he's fked