So if you end up getting hit by a telephone pole and then posted on an incel forum, what does this say?
its a lot more complex than it seems to be such as factors which lead your fov being distrupted etc
free will isnt real
It is
keep coping , every decision is made by random chemicals in the brain which is again pre disposed ans genetics.
So you’re saying masturbating,stealing,lying isn’t free will? Life is like a crossroad different fates for every major decision you make
no they arent free will , those who are addicted to masturbation are known to have less grey matter than those who dont
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CHRISTIAN JARRETT
SCIENCE
JUN 19, 2014 7:21 AM
Is It Really True That Watching Porn Will Shrink Your Brain?
A hundred years ago they said that masturbating would make you go blind. We've progressed. Today, we're told that watching moderate amounts of pornography will shrink your brain. But is this really true?
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A HUNDRED YEARS ago they said that masturbating would make you go blind. We've progressed. Today, we're told that watching moderate amounts of pornography will shrink your brain. The claim arrives courtesy of a brain imaging paper published last month in JAMA Psychiatry, a respected medical journal.
Among the global hyperbolic headlines that followed, my favourite was from a German site: "Pea brain: watching porn online will wear out your brain and make it shrivel." Others included "Viewing porn shrinks the brain" (from the reliably untrustworthy Daily Mail) and Watching Porn Linked To Less Gray Matter In The Brain (from Huffington Post).
The study that triggered all this concern was published by a German pair: Simone Kühn, a psychologist, and Jürgen Gallinat, a psychiatrist. They scanned the brains of 64 healthy men (average age 29) in three ways. Note the word healthy. In fact, all the men who participated were free from any psychiatric or neurological disorders. So if they had shrunken brains (we'll come onto that later), it wasn't causing them any major problems.
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The first scan was a simple structural brain scan. The second looked at patterns of brain activation when the men viewed sexual or neutral images. The third scan looked at brain activity while the men relaxed in the scanner for five minutes (a so-called resting-state scan). The men also answered questions about how much porn they watch. They averaged four hours per week, and none of them met the criteria for Internet sex addiction according to the "Internet Sex Screening Test".
Here's what's caused all the fuss. The researchers found that hours spent watching porn was negatively correlated with the amount of grey matter in a subcortical region near the front of the brain - the right striatum - that's known to be involved in the processing of reward (as well as lots of other things). In other words, men who said they spent more time watching porn tended to have a smaller amount of grey matter in this part of their brain. Also, the more avid porn viewers showed less activation in their left striatum when they looked at racy images, and they appeared to have reduced connectivity between their right striatum and their left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
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It's just as likely that men with less grey matter in their striatum are more attracted to porn, as opposed to porn causing that brain profile.
Kleptomania (klep-toe-MAY-nee-uh) is a mental health disorder that involves repeatedly being unable to resist urges to steal items that you generally don't really need. Often the items stolen have little value and you could afford to buy them. Kleptomania is rare but can be a serious condition.
