Is it true that patients in USA have a feeling that Indian origin doctors are more caring and efficient?
Is it true that the general population thinks that people of Indian origin are cheap and always looking for a bargain?
How do these two things go together?
Once again I quote from the book "T he pattern on the stone" authored by Daniel Hillis.
On page 148 "it's the weaknesses as well as its strengths stem from evolution's inherent blindness to the "why" of a design.
"The human brain takes advantage of both mechanisms: it is as much a product of learning as it is of evolution. Evolution paints the broad strokes, and the development of the individual in interaction with its environment completes the picture. In fact, the product of evolution is not so much as designed for the brain as the design for a process that generates a brain-not so much a blueprint as a recipe (emphasis mine). Thus, there are multiple levels of emergent processes operating at once. An evolutionary process creates a recipe for growing your brain, and the developmental process interacts with the Enron meant to wire the brain. The developmental process includes both internally driven processes of morphogenesis and the externally driven processes of learning. The maturational forces of morphogenesis cause nerve cells to grow in the right patterns, and the process of learning fine-tunes the connections. The ultimate stage in the brain's learning is a cultural process, in which knowledge acquired by other individuals over many generations is transferred into it.
I think the instructional processes of culture belonging to the older cultures such as the Hindu and the Jewish may have something to do with the ability of people who come from these cultures to have more empathy and also have more intelligent and efficiency in medicine.
Is it true that the general population thinks that people of Indian origin are cheap and always looking for a bargain?
How do these two things go together?
Once again I quote from the book "T he pattern on the stone" authored by Daniel Hillis.
On page 148 "it's the weaknesses as well as its strengths stem from evolution's inherent blindness to the "why" of a design.
"The human brain takes advantage of both mechanisms: it is as much a product of learning as it is of evolution. Evolution paints the broad strokes, and the development of the individual in interaction with its environment completes the picture. In fact, the product of evolution is not so much as designed for the brain as the design for a process that generates a brain-not so much a blueprint as a recipe (emphasis mine). Thus, there are multiple levels of emergent processes operating at once. An evolutionary process creates a recipe for growing your brain, and the developmental process interacts with the Enron meant to wire the brain. The developmental process includes both internally driven processes of morphogenesis and the externally driven processes of learning. The maturational forces of morphogenesis cause nerve cells to grow in the right patterns, and the process of learning fine-tunes the connections. The ultimate stage in the brain's learning is a cultural process, in which knowledge acquired by other individuals over many generations is transferred into it.
I think the instructional processes of culture belonging to the older cultures such as the Hindu and the Jewish may have something to do with the ability of people who come from these cultures to have more empathy and also have more intelligent and efficiency in medicine.
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