--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray27" <steve.sundur@> wrote: (snip) > > It has been suggested here, that a person does not have full > > brain development until they are 25. And I think the part of > > the brain that is not fully developed, IIRC is that part > > which evaluates the future consequences of our actions. I am > > just putting that out there as one thing to consider. > > If that has "been said here," it runs contrary to most > literature on child-rearing. According to those authors, > children develop the empathy to feel the effects of their > actions on others and the ability to control actions that > might negatively affect others at age six. If these guys > hadn't gotten it down by their age, there is something > wrong with them. End of story.
Ooooopsie! Not quite the end: "The per [sic]-frontal cortex, the one we need to imagine consequences for our actions is not fully developed until 24-26. Kids in college literally do not have the hardware to always be responsible in their behavior. They lose site [sic] of the future and get lost in the present." --Curtisdeltablues, 3/8/12 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/337423 Actually, of course, there's no conflict at all between what Curtis said and what Barry says. Barry claims there is by the simple expedient of interpreting "not fully developed" to mean "completely undeveloped." But then, he considered it entirely within his rights to distort a comment made, he assumed, by a TMer, in order to slam the purported TMer. Unfortunately, it turns out that the original comment was made by Barry's great pal, Curtis. I'm sure Curtis won't mind Barry's distortion, though. <snicker>
