Active Users:248 Time:29/03/2024 06:28:01 AM
Re: Nearly Identical... Sareitha Sedai - 16/01/2003 04:11:42 PM

Truthfully, there are probably huge differences in the operant influences that you and your brother have experienced. Granted they are probably more similar than the way two strangers would have been raised, but this is merely a question of degree...

You may have been "raised" in a way that seems similar, but in which an objective observer would probably find subtle but important differences. In addition to what Mashy brings up, you and your brother probably have a set of people with whom you both have regular one-on-one interactions (family and such), but these interactions (to which the other is not directly privy) are not identical. You have (or have had) different sets of friends, different cohorts in school, etc., etc. Also, do not discount the fact that two people may percieve the same event/conversation in different ways and thus be shaped differently by the same experience.

Don't get me wrong, I am a big proponent of the idea that both "nature" and "nurture" factor into personality development. I just don't think you're giving "nurture" enough credit

SS



Alric has bats in the attic. ~Larisa




View/create new replies Sign up for a premium account to add posts to a list of favourites!
Random Thoughts on Perceptions and other Silly Vaguenesses. - 15/01/2003 11:22:57 PM 209 Views
I'm of a few minds on this, to be honest - 15/01/2003 11:30:34 PM 38 Views
Re: It must be difficult ordering Chinese food. - 15/01/2003 11:35:35 PM 30 Views
Chinese food makes me sick - 16/01/2003 12:11:44 AM 19 Views
Okay, maybe a serious response - 15/01/2003 11:41:10 PM 35 Views
Re: Ketchup. - 15/01/2003 11:46:09 PM 23 Views
I don't have (edit) DETAILED (/edit) opinions on those matters - 15/01/2003 11:48:00 PM 25 Views
Re: Uhh... - 15/01/2003 11:52:31 PM 20 Views
Hahaha. - 15/01/2003 11:54:15 PM 20 Views
*cough* Nietzsche? Freud, Jung, Crowley, Leary... *NM* - 16/01/2003 07:25:53 PM 15 Views
I'll give you Jung - 16/01/2003 08:45:00 PM 39 Views
I resent that you identify me with that Crime Syndicate. - 15/01/2003 11:55:37 PM 26 Views
GUBERNATORIAL - 15/01/2003 11:56:24 PM 19 Views
Re: Ah, then I apologize. - 16/01/2003 12:01:06 AM 17 Views
Liberal indeed. - 16/01/2003 12:04:27 AM 22 Views
Re: For me. - 16/01/2003 12:11:20 AM 20 Views
Re: Litmuses... - 16/01/2003 12:21:22 AM 18 Views
First you take the intuition... - 16/01/2003 01:09:19 AM 25 Views
Re: I will get to this later. (I will edit this message) *NM* - 16/01/2003 10:21:24 AM 11 Views
Re: Well. - 16/01/2003 09:16:24 PM 22 Views
Re: First you take the intuition... - 17/01/2003 09:18:29 PM 11 Views
Druid's Random Thoughts on Perceptions and other Silly Vaguenesses. - 16/01/2003 01:10:11 AM 36 Views
Re: Of course. - 16/01/2003 10:10:17 AM 18 Views
a response. - 16/01/2003 04:11:50 AM 36 Views
Re: I honestly have no idea what you are talking about. - 16/01/2003 10:01:41 AM 21 Views
hold on there, jumper. - 16/01/2003 04:42:36 PM 22 Views
You are young yet. - 16/01/2003 06:18:58 AM 30 Views
Re: You are completely incorrect. - 16/01/2003 09:47:54 AM 30 Views
Have you both read the same things? - 16/01/2003 10:26:25 AM 27 Views
Re: Nearly Identical... - 16/01/2003 04:11:42 PM 21 Views
Re: Ah, but you hit directly onto my questioning. - 16/01/2003 08:00:19 PM 18 Views
Re: Ah, but you hit directly onto my questioning. - 16/01/2003 08:46:44 PM 16 Views
Re: I see your point. *NM* - 16/01/2003 09:32:49 PM 14 Views
Definitions and Predictability - 16/01/2003 05:49:24 PM 20 Views
Re: Hm, yes. - 16/01/2003 07:44:32 PM 14 Views
What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.. - 16/01/2003 07:11:54 PM 27 Views
Re: - 16/01/2003 07:50:52 PM 17 Views
Yeah, - 17/01/2003 06:55:37 PM 17 Views
www.rawilson.com *NM* - 16/01/2003 08:50:30 PM 10 Views
What can i say, i've been reading a lot of Wilson again. *NM* - 17/01/2003 06:58:12 PM 17 Views
French Canadian Bean Soup. *NM* - 18/01/2003 01:17:46 AM 27 Views
Thank you Sir Squirrelalot! *NM* - 17/01/2003 08:01:00 PM 13 Views