Evolutionary fine tuning ...
July 26, 2017 at 5:00 am
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2017 at 6:36 am by ignoramus.)
Guys, I watched a couple of fascinating vids on the human mind and how the brain is completely disconnected from the outside world in a way which hasn't occurred to me before. I don't even know why I was surprised to know that the brain is in an sealed pitch black skull all it's life. No holes to let light or sound in.
Those connections are digital in nature. IE: depending which part of the brain they connect to will determine how our mind manifests the information.
There was a couple of examples when these connections go awry. One guy after an accident recognised and acknowledged his parents but was convinced that they were perfect replicas. This was due to a severed connection which goes from the visual section to the amygdala and makes the emotional connection relating to the visual object.
They asked him to speak to his parents on the phone and everything was normal! (Different connection)
The other example was of an older man who had good vision but due to trauma lost a lot of connections and basically couldn't understand a lot of what he was seeing.
He could see everything but had trouble understanding their purpose.
They basically say that we create a personal version of our world in our mind over the years and build on that constantly. This version may have very little to do with actual reality at all as absolute accuracy it is not necessary for survival.
Upon watching the video, Pam gave me a piece of cheese to give to the cat on my lap and he sniffed all over my hand until he basically bumped into it.
Then I realised that my cat is blind as a bat! His evolutionary instincts are to detect changes in nature more so than to analyse a stationary object.
If I had thrown the cheese on the floor he would've pounced on it immediately.
My question is: What is our current evolutionary fine tuning? Has it changed at all since last century's industrial revolution. Even slightly?
Or has our intelligence blunted most of our primitive survival instincts since cooked meat and the wheel?
Those connections are digital in nature. IE: depending which part of the brain they connect to will determine how our mind manifests the information.
There was a couple of examples when these connections go awry. One guy after an accident recognised and acknowledged his parents but was convinced that they were perfect replicas. This was due to a severed connection which goes from the visual section to the amygdala and makes the emotional connection relating to the visual object.
They asked him to speak to his parents on the phone and everything was normal! (Different connection)
The other example was of an older man who had good vision but due to trauma lost a lot of connections and basically couldn't understand a lot of what he was seeing.
He could see everything but had trouble understanding their purpose.
They basically say that we create a personal version of our world in our mind over the years and build on that constantly. This version may have very little to do with actual reality at all as absolute accuracy it is not necessary for survival.
Upon watching the video, Pam gave me a piece of cheese to give to the cat on my lap and he sniffed all over my hand until he basically bumped into it.
Then I realised that my cat is blind as a bat! His evolutionary instincts are to detect changes in nature more so than to analyse a stationary object.
If I had thrown the cheese on the floor he would've pounced on it immediately.
My question is: What is our current evolutionary fine tuning? Has it changed at all since last century's industrial revolution. Even slightly?
Or has our intelligence blunted most of our primitive survival instincts since cooked meat and the wheel?
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