RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
December 26, 2018 at 2:17 am
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2018 at 2:23 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm not sure if we're discussing the OPQ or Bels question. The evolutionary explanation of just about anything, again in broad terms, is pretty much always the same...and I suppose it's unsatisfying. We do what the ones who managed to avoid swallowing the big crayon did. Communication, and even chattering, is a hell of an advantage. Ultimately, it could have been completely random that doing so lit a pleasure center..but once it did, and we had a chemical compulsion to do so, it wouldn't take long for that to be well represented in the pool of survivors.
Speaking in those terms, the reason for some broad behavioral commonality can be as simple as that we're just the ones that are left. There could be other arrangements, other patterns of behavior..there likely were (and enjoyment isn't entirely uniform anyway)....but those Other Fuckers™ are all dead.
Speaking in those terms, the reason for some broad behavioral commonality can be as simple as that we're just the ones that are left. There could be other arrangements, other patterns of behavior..there likely were (and enjoyment isn't entirely uniform anyway)....but those Other Fuckers™ are all dead.
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