and a very warm welcome to you you're watching. me . they say never changed which is true about humans so who is really in charge of my life me or my brain and are we one of the say well i talked about this with a professor of biology at the university. yes

of fog it's really good to have you on our program so we have lots to discuss you say that any basic trait of a person iron such a sexual identity predisposition to something is actually decided in mother's womb when you are 4 your brain is formed within the will a lot of other neuroscientists will argue with you because they're saying what we are is our genes plus the upbringing but in your case you are saying it's not nature versus nurture it's just nature no i have never said that and i think that the distinction between nature and science because from the very beginning it's an interaction between the 2. so it's nature into action this nurture but the nurse show that he starts at the moment of conception so it's the end violence in the home is also very important it's not only. after birth that you can influence.

the nature. and that means that the whole idea in the bone. structure of the brain is decided to some extent and some functions are programmed for the rest of your life in the bone when you say to some extent to what extent like if we have a percentage what is the sense on the function so if you look through sexual orientation and gender identity 100 percent is determined in the hall who really yeah. the language of language is determined 400 percent. house or it's the home. from birth home you are going in the environments that is shaping you brain for certain language if i'm chinese child has or as a baby here in the west then let's get some dutch brain for language but all the

things this. really so it depends on what function sure talking on par with the sexual orientation because i think a very important thing that you're pointing out a lot of people would say sexual orientation also depends on where you spend your heath or the that the teenagers like a lot of adult men that are men they said well what the boys' school and that's how this thing happened others say yeah well we're born this way but when you say that it's pretty term and in the wall what exactly happens in that brain when you know that you're straight or you're 8 or you're transgender in the future how does that determine how how do you know is the term yeah so it's for. well let's say homosexuality is for 50 percent determined by genes and for 50 percent by the way that enough cells make contacts and skulls self organization and

it also means that if you have to same genes because you're part of an identical twin then almost a miss homosexual shown that you also will be homosexual is not homo percent it's 80 percent. so. it's an interaction between all the aspects that are important for brain development on the basis of that since they got from your parents and it doesn't mean that your parents should be homosexual in order to be called homosexual it can be that this in that it becomes more spare it increases the chance that you were come home sexual but it's not determining its 400 percent the rest is developed mental process in the wall so if it's a genetic thing you know how right now we can test the embryos for whatever it is genetically whether it's a disease or predispositions they're in that early states. can you actually tell if

your child is going to be homosexual don't you bring him up in a certain way no i only said this 50 percent genetic and it. does not mean if you have to. you will be called homosexual so it all depends on what is happening from conception on with us and in addition it's no fun gene so there are diseases like hunting toll which you can determine in the fetus because as. you can tell this shelf ill at the age of 35 gets huntington's but. our sexual orientation this will determine. it's a whole complex of genes and that means that you cannot determine the level. but let's say there's a genetic predisposition to homosexuality great and then we don't know that it's

parents and the child is born and you bring him up as a straight person. does that make my child a happier person or less happy person because i didn't really follow what he was genetically programmed for because you're saying also in your book that you know if we followed our true nature which is like what our brain program programmed us to be we would be much happier yes so how do we do that not even just for homosexuality but actually for anything else like using the programs to be a great pianist but then i decide to be a physician you know and then i'm not as happy if i knew all my life i wanted to be a dancer and my father said no and they know that i would be a happier person to my brain programmed me to be a dancer but how do you know that from the beginning their children not yet that's why i'm asking you so many questions because i wanted them to have so you still belief that you can still them in a certain direction i think what you should do is chill them as the possibilities

and see what they like to do and so they will they will tell you by interests what they really like and then the leader like something they will be . in it because they can put a lot of time and there's not a you push your child into a certain direction and he will do it well if he does it it can be very unhappy and the same also of course for sexual orientation the idea that you can change from person from homosexual into heat or sexual is nonsense and there are still farms in the united states where people. to do that's they can stay depending on how much they pay for $6.00 weeks or 6 months and the only result this more suicide it's because you cannot change their sexual orientation from person.

is something like transgender when people want to change her gender. also something that is pre-determined in your mother's womb yeah and also for. being mill or female feeling that you are male or female the 2nd identity is very. determined before birth and it's only because of her that during early development the youngest. i saw was 2 years of age. leave us convinced. he was born in the wrong body and now it's a beautiful woman. and. tell. parents don't encourage people to to. become transsexual it's a disaster but for the families so they do anything you can imagine in order to

stop it but if you can't change i think a big question here is because i've spoken to. many people from america very split about whether their child should undergo the therapy of change in gender or not like for instance father says no mother says yes and then the child behaves very differently with father is a boy and then with mother because she's convinced that he should be a girl he behaves like a girl and i'm thinking a child psychic is so fragile you know like i wanted to be an elf when i was 5 but lake has changed yes you're right there and said listen to me you know some how it is for me to analyse the dance also by we. don't take any. first of all mesh before the age of 18 so here in the netherlands. boy is convinced that he wants to change into and go it's important that you don't

to wait until 18 when he has gone. to meet us from big 4 and then try to make an attack to go out so. we do here this postpone purity until us of a team and before that and if female hormones. go and. live s. and go and have to hold nets for this depth to them and then when they're still convinced that it's of 18 then they can be oprah so it's not something to have every so that's something that america i think in some states they start this really early when kids are like 6 and 7 and 10 and i mean how can they possibly really know what they want to be at that age but on the other hand if a child knows it's family it's home and there are they movies from the netherlands

about that also and they tell it in the primary school is to the parents tell the whole class what's happening and then to seal them they don't mind so the next swimming lesson they coerced the office sex and then they accept it so you thing it's about their environment and they from the very beginning you're saying it's ok you can be whatever you are you want then it's easier for children too. actually choose the path they want to choose. so if you look to the results of. a sex change in the months there you can say that 98 percent of the people the 10 secs are happy ok i have to say that's a great that's the to sticks. and if you then look into the problems or for the rest of the 2 percent then the problems are the parents the trucks they lost

the environmentalists friends who call it so it's the environment the gifts the problems it's not the fact that they decided to change sex of course you should exclude some people that have because of their indices sometimes the idea that they have to change sex so people who have schizophrenia for people who are from bipolar disorder they have pits in which they want to change sex. if disco sex crude you cannot expect problems professor so we're going to take a short break right now when we're back we'll continue talking to fessor diggs while the about this is in charge of my life me or my brain stay with us.

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and we're back with professor swap professor your book we are our brains implies that actually our personalities are defined by the structure of our brain what we're talking about right now. how much of that can be changed when we're born and growing up for instance if i am pretty supposed to man yet depression from the very . beginning you know my mother's womb can i reverse that completely with meditation and really good psychotherapy i don't know exactly and become completely healthy and rid of that tendency in me well there's no scientific evidence that you can influence manic depression or schizophrenia by. this type of environmental help so what is important is that you're not exposed

to very stressful conditions because viewing stress then the disease is becoming worse. but you cannot conceive of that this is what i told her peace ok let's let's not talk that extreme if i'm just prone to depression and i'm a melancholic person or i'm an angry person and i'm prone to anger. can i change that in me completely. no no you have the film ability and you keep the film ability so you kennels you cannot change its completely but you can do is know about the 2nd sense just because you problems know about the stressful circumstances know about the personal circumstances that you accept problems and then better do with your film ability that you keep the film ability

and this also the reason that. people of this film the ability for depression but something. in the environment is happening that makes most people angry or sad they just go into a depression and you can treat a depression you can come out of the question if you keep the film a bit in next time it's happening so it's comes back. and that means that. psychologists and psychiatrists should. be modest in what they can accomplish they can help people better to deal with points to the point stay when you're saying you know you should just realize what situations bring this vulnerability. in you and then sort of try to control it does that mean that only people with the intellect can control this father abilities 1st as john nash a lot of people would argue that you know he learned how to control his

schizophrenia with his intellect towards the end of his life he didn't control it and if you see the most. beautiful mind yeah yes i thought it so he learnt how to deal with it so. the. allison ation still came and he could not make a distinction between alice nations and the ideas of the professional i guess because nations also coming as if they're coming from the outside world and they're real. so here he looms how to deal with it and he's an exception in the sense that most. people. are not capable of being intellectually so strong of course he is noble laureate but. effects he is also showing that even if you have an i q you cannot

present the obvious nations to come. well you can deal with them you know harmless to you know the things i mean that you schizophrenia still will go away ok. you also wrote in your book that person's a violinist has a bigger part of the brain which is responsible for his left fingers you know that's the way he's born no ok it develops as we play the violin and so that's what i want to know it's 1st the action and then the brain adjusts to the action or it's the brain and then the action adjusts to where one is i think you should 1st have the talent to become and could file and player and then you should have a lot of practice and. if the changes in the. make you a top 5 list but. so in the brain yes turn to working with the brain yes and

you can also see that children who. 56. they could be on a plane and they have a lot of pressure and because it gives them pleasure they like to practice and because they practice a lot. more and more. distance from the rest of the population they become better and better so it's an interaction but you should have some basis for somebody who hates to play the piano and somebody who doesn't have to tell them to well forget it well no but i know a lot of people who don't have the talent but they love it so much that they become better pianists and those who have talent that well i would like to see in scientific study you know i don't believe you. ok so. if we can actually. figure

out by a person's brain what kind of predispositions he has and you're saying we can't. well i don't say that by studying the brain. we can do that by studying the behavior just behavior you know because there's no such thing because i was thinking before coming here and professor tells me that there's this like scan where he can scan like a baby's brain in a mother's womb and figure out if he's pretty supposed to be a murderer or a genius mathematician then you can really organize the society in the future and then that's a nice name for a book not that's not what then got because there will be worse than this scary stories about artificial intellects taking over humanity and all of that. no you can only ask and see the course apply my look these. will please somebody to have a normal life and of course then you can decide to abortion but it's only

cause no monotheists and no to tell them it's horrible things that. well the character of childhood is something like that it's not possible. you know when we go to jam and for instance i tell my trainer i want to have bigger biceps he gives me exercise and then you know the shape changes can you do something similar with brain and. felix forest says can i teach my brain how to love or to be compassionate if i don't have it in me exercise your brain like you exercise your biceps well for love you need empathy. and there are people born without empathy. and they coast states today they don't mind what they do to all the people. call them psychopaths. those people trained.

for empathy without any success so far if you don't have empathy from the beginning you kennels kids person empathy what does what exactly tell me scientifically what determines in the brain whether i have empathy or not what kind of connections and ignorance like what is it well. known as we call them. and they. mirror what d.m. vironment is doing so is a model. doing making so movements and the child is mimic. the brain learns how to make that movement but if the mobile is making that movement then the child sees it as whole idea enough to make the brain that move

and strain the see if it's necessary for the same holds for emotions if you have t. capability for emotions for empathy and you have an interaction you see that somebody you love is set or happy and then you also mimic those emotions and the brain learns how to deal with stuff but if you don't have it. by inborn. differences then it's impossible to but how do you explain sometimes the fact that the child is born in despicable conditions from crack had parents violent parents goes from one foster family to another where he's abused and then somehow that person who we think is going to be just like the parents a criminal or a drug addict becomes one of the best humans in the world how do you explain that

you just tell me how important the development. and. the environmentalists not so important if you have the capabilities if you have the brain formerly almost. makes you and. well a special person in any foreign service. he gave us it's by his father if he did study enough because his father wanted to use his stuff and . finally he. escapes from the family i think it is so 16 or so early and he forced to flee into europe he was also involved think him in all activities like the father in campbell and so that's why even most probably involved in killing a person but he made beautiful music this and that was his stuff and the telling us

coming from his father who also was missing well wagner was a terrible human being who made beautiful music yes he will do well i tell you in this case that he did this differently that right. there was this study where. i don't know what it was called there was a huge study and i was going through 80 for praying for you and it actually said that according to that you could tell by the size of our and they can do. our political leanings braced and if they make it to a was bigger there's 99 percent chance that you're a conservative and vice versa do you believe that well it's hold this case based on statistics and it shouldn't shall miss that somebody is so i thought left . for a person. it's not possible to predict so you are part of the thing

depending on the me so it's only for an kook it's like understand moment no well i try to explain if i say men are longer then women. are quite a number of students here in the lap who are longer than i am still for coop i can say men are longer than women. the statistics yes it depends what nations you're talking about know everybody everywhere yes for the whole coop in the same environment men women but from the size of somebody's if i get only the size. 85 i cannot say with some men or woman. so for coop you can make predictions but not for the individual ok so it's a really rough overall or statistics is for sale if you called it off statistics

well it's important to note that what if a property. talking about it has an availability huge favor the latino. that's holds for everything not only for talent in some direction but for a whole our properties and the variation was the basis of evolution i think that evolution for our brain and for us has stopped we can discuss that but the variation is still there and always people who are and the in the extremes. society doesn't like that if you are in extreme for a property you should be in the middle then everybody feels safe but those people in the extremes can also contribute a special thanks presser sob it's been a pleasure talking to you thank you very much for this interview and good luck with everything thank you thank you.

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