June 15, 2004


Why we can't see faults in our partners or our children: part of the brain shuts down.

Among other areas, parts of the pre-frontal cortex – a bit of the brain towards the front and implicated in social judgment – seems to get switched off when we are in love and when we love our children, as do areas linked with the experience of negative emotions such as aggression and fear as well as planning. The parts of the brain deactivated form a network which are implicated in the evaluation of trustworthiness of others and basically critical social assessment.

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Okay, so that was irritating. I let the DNS registration on this site's domain name (daghlian.net) expire, which set loose an avalanche of stupidity, bizarre ICANN regulations on registrars, and customer service which devolved almost immediately into apologies and marketing, although I guess the mere existence of a customer support number is an improvement for this outfit. At any rate, as you can no doubt tell, this space is back online. Sorry for the outage.
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