 Facial Expression Reader Vicky 85% Happy, 3% Disgust, 2% Fear, 1% Sad |
It’s amazing that the organ most responsible for the success of our species is the one we know the least about. While we have come a long way, abandoning the cartesian duality and stepping out of the false dichotomy of the nature versus nurture debate, we still don’t know exactly how memories are encoded in the web of neurons or how much of our behaviors are hard-coded.
But we are able to observe these behaviors. We can see how our brains react to optical illusions, and infer the underlying components. We may observe how individuals respond to authority and social zones, whittling out the evolutionary advantages these reactions confer on us. Is the human brain like a black box, where we must learn its inner workings from its external manifestations? Or will we have more luck dissecting the molecular components?
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