Friday, October 13, 2023

Our reptilian brain

 

I'm sure if Carl Sagan were still alive, he would have included social media:


MacLean has shown that the R-complex plays an important role in aggressive behavior, territoriality, ritual and the establishment of social hierarchies. Despite occasional welcome exceptions, this seems to me to characterize a great deal of modern human bureaucratic and political behavior.

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