Yours is not a new hypothesis but I am not versed well enough to give
citations more technical than Jung and Sagan. Popular fiction has beat the
idea to death. Our court systems are clogged with cases resulting from
drug impaired "judgement" releasing the beast within.
Basically it means that our cerebral cortex has evolved creative and
imaginative ways to say "NO!" Which keeps individuals out of trouble and
instep with the pack.
rlh
At 2:27 PM +0000 4/29/98, tael wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone could evaluate my hypothesis that:
>>Our psychology is the outcome of interaction between the basic drives
>from the paleomammalian (limbic mid-brain) and reptillian (lower brain
>core) system, which are hardwired from birth, and the degree to which
>our cerebral cortex learns its stucture (becomes mylinated) from the
>stimulus of social processes.
>>>btw, do you know of any books that argue along these lines?
>>TY,
>>jonny walker
>>student of B. Psychophysiology, Swinburne Uni, Melbourne, Australia.
Richard Hall
Comparative Animal Physiologist
Division of Sciences and Mathematics
University of the Virgin Islands
St. Thomas, USVI 00802
809-693-1386
rhall at uvi.edu
