Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Paging Dr Carver!
This is a BIG change in understanding.
The traditional idea of reptile brainstem vs mammal cortex just isn't true. Completely false.
Why did it take so long to figure this out? Because we were BIGOTS. We didn't bother to LOOK closely at the actual brains of reptiles. We just LOOKED at our Darwinian prejudices and listened to the Darwinian voices in our Superior Mammalian heads.
I'm being a bit unfair. The failure was a bit more complicated. We were looking at the visible STRUCTURES instead of the observable PURPOSES. We were focusing on nouns, not verbs and sentences. Reptiles lack some of the structures that we can see in mammals, so reptiles must be simpler.
Sort of like assuming that a motorcycle can't possibly run because it has two wheels and it doesn't have an engine up front. After you've reached SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS on a theory, no amount of observation can shake it. Reality is utterly irrelevant to a theorist.
After we started looking at PURPOSE and ACTIVITY of cell types, we began to realize that reptile brains accomplish the same PURPOSES with structures that look different.
= = = = =
Carver.
LOOK ABOUT YOU.
TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE.
TALK TO THEM.
LET THEM TALK TO YOU.
When you start by LOOKING ABOUT YOU instead of LOOKING INSIDE YOUR HEAD, you are more likely to observe that motorcycles run under their own power and reptiles do all sorts of intelligent things, requiring empathy and a view of the future.
Labels: Carver
¶ 1:36 AM
