Brain Blogger: How Culture Shapes Our Mind and Brain

Brain Blogger has very to-the-point blogpost addressing a fascinating subject: culture’s influence on perspective. The money quote:

Taken together, these divergent findings [from neuroscience and psychology studies of divergent cultures] fit with each cultures’ conceptualization of the individual — independent in Western-European/American cultures, and intertwined with others in your environment in East-Asian cultures.

The the primal first sentence, body-as-it-was, object, body-as-it-is, is a significant element in the formation of consciousness. The sentence structure suggests two perspectives. The first is from the point-of-view of the body - an individual in the world. The second perspective is the point-of-view of the witness of the body and the object - the individual of the world.

These two point-of-view are not an either/or proposition, but rather a different mix of the two. Culture might define a normative quality to an individual's habitual point-of-view.

Brain Blogger's post and the studies cited suggest: A different cultural norm for point-of-view, a different perspective, a different conscious experience of life.