2020.10.20 06:34
Neuroscience and Psychology Suggest No Surprise Victory for Trump This Time
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neuroscience-and-psychology-suggest-no-surprise-victory-for-trump-this-time/
2020.10.20 06:40
2020.10.20 06:49
This distinguished neuroscientist explains why Trump won the 2016 election
from a neuroscience perspective, which makes common sense for me.
But the same trick Trump uses this time around won't work again
according to his neuroscientific logic, which again makes sense to me.
2020.10.20 09:39
I certainly hope his prediction through such a fanciful way of analysis/assessment is right for this time, Dr. Lee. But we all know the majority are not smart enough to take such a logical way of assessment as he does, regretfully close to the animal level with the instinct only, I am afraid to say.
Just like Greek history, we are familiar with, the demagoguery would dominate after all! That is the reason the 'genuine' democracy never works because there are so many Tramp-like cunning bastards to take advantage.
God bless America.
BB Lee
P.S. I just got updated information from my Turkish friend and surprised to learn Turkey has the best outcome of Coronavirus management so that I will share some of his stories as below;
Dear BB and Marietta,
You are such wonderful friends..... We are living in a very bad world that even neighbors don't care what is happening next door. Up to now, we could manage to stay away from covid.
Sahil's mother is stuck at home because the President decided that elderly (above 65) citizens should stay at home; if they have to travel to other cities even in the presence of a personally owned house there, they should apply for permission with relevant documents and if the permission is granted, they should not leave the new address before a month.
The question is, although it is somewhat documented that the disease may progress fatally in the old age (65 !!) group, how are we going to protect them from getting contaminated if anyone, younger then 65, who is allowed to go out, is sharing the same house with them? Of course, the leaders know much better than ordinary crowds (incl doctors). I could persuade my mother to go to our summer house in Heybeli (one of the Princess Islands in the Marmara Sea) and she stayed there for 3 months. We are so happy to hear the Official Version of covid figures showing that we are doing the best on this planet; tomorrow or next week we are about to find the Turkish cure/vaccine for covid; don't have an economic crisis (1 USD = 7.93 Turkish Liras now); don't have any political problems; proud to learn that anyone-any journalist can say/write anything freely; the judicial system is working objectively;
In summary, I can say that we are stuck in where we are; so lucky that we are alive; having the chance to sleep in our houses; working in nice, satisfying places in a country with a wonderful nature.
Love and best wishes to all of you.
Thank you again and stay safe.
Semih-Sahil-Oyku.
2020.10.20 09:55
This distinguished neuroscientist has put up a very bad confusing "subject" line.
The grammar is not clear. For the reader, it's hard to say if Trump's winning is by "No surprise"
or he will lose by "No surprise." I was confused at the beginning at the subject.
Only after I read the whole thing, I barely knew his true intention. Even that, it was not easy.
His prediction is based on hindsight. Anyone, including me and you, can do that easily.
Will his "foresight" turn out to be true or not? That's what counts.
I do not agree with his neuroscientific bullshitting interpretation of Trump's 2016 win.
I would rather say that it was the severe doubt on Hilary Clinton and her husband
at their honesty and trustfulness.
The people had made a very bad misjudgment and ended up picking a really bad liar and cheater.
What a dumb shit!!! And what stupid people we had.
I think Trump can still win. No one, except the "hindsight after 11-04-2020", knows for sure.
Keep your mind open so that you don't get severely disappointed.
Gentlemen, "The game is not over until it is over"!!
Here, as Douglas Fields said, "if Biden wins, China (the CCP) will win."
Then, in my thinking, all far east Asia becomes part of CCP including our Korea.
That really bothers me and keeps my thought in a split-undecided-mode.
I do wish Trump loses. I am sick and tired of listening to his fabrications and lies.
The important thing for us is: "Don't get stuck in your emotion and insist on only one tract"
but "be flexible and get ready for anything." The world does not turn around you.
2020.10.20 14:01
Thanks, Prof. for sharing.
You certainly have lots of friends around the world
who come in handy for valuable inside information in those countries.
You are certainly one of rare birds who live in a "global village" literally.
I see a good point as usual in our WM's remarks.
Whether it was Trump's initiative or a mere reaction to the dislike, dishonesty,
"crooked Hilary" per Trump, of Hilary and Bill, and whatever,
this neuroscientist's educated guess shows us how the brains of the deciding block
of independents might have reached the surprise decisions to vote for Trump last minute.
As you said, it was in retrospective review so we will see if his logic works prospectively.
In this world of uncertainty I believe science is the only path that gives me some reassurance
we all need.
2020.10.21 09:17
You bet you, Dr Lee. I certainly try to be free as a bird, which is my hard earned privilege after 10 year confinement in Korea, not only geographically but also academically. Yes, I enjoy such privilege to remain free as a bird after I came back home to the States. Indeed it is a fringe benefit to gain over hundred personal friends/colleagues over 70 countries while taking care of the vascular malformation together through the last three decades! But now I am hopelessly grounded and go crazy under the house arrest with no more privilege to fly around the world like 'free as a bird' due to this pandemic! But they keep this old man in their loop so that I can catch up many sagas.
BB Lee
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R. Douglas Fields, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist and an international authority on brain development, neuron-glia interactions, and the cellular mechanisms of memory. He is currently Chief of the Nervous System Development and Plasticity Section at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, and author of numerous books and magazine articles about the brain. He serves on the editorial boards of several neuroscience journals and he is a scientific advisor to Scientific American Mind and other science magazines. He holds degrees from UC Berkeley, San Jose State University, UC San Diego, and he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford and Yale Universities before joining the NIH in 1987.
Dr. Fields has published over 150 studies in scientific journals and books from his experimental research on the brain. His scientific research has been featured in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, including the National Geographic, ABC News Nightline, NPR Morning Edition, and public television. In addition to his scientific research, Dr. Fields writes about neuroscience in several popular magazines including Outside Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Scientific American and Scientific American Mind, and he is a regular on-line columnist for The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Scientific American, the Society for Neuroscience BrainFacts, and others. He has written two science books for the general audience: The Other Brain, about brain cells (glia), which communicate without using electricity, and Why We Snap, about the neuroscience of sudden anger, aggression, and threat detection.