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This is an example of an article that claims to debunk something that nobody said. Anyway it was informative and clarified things nicely. Just wish it had a be

This is an example of an article that claims to debunk something that nobody said. Anyway it was informative and clarified things nicely. Just wish it had a better lead.

mrkeen 3y ago
> article that claims to debunk something that nobody said About a third of the article was dedicated to who said it and when: >> As Paul MacLean (1964), originator of the triune-brain theory, stated: man, it appears, has inherited essentially three brains. >> This belief, although widely shared and stated as fact in psychology textbooks, lacks any foundation in evolutionary biology. >> The most widely used introductory textbook in psychology states that: ... The brain’s increasing complexity arises from new brain systems built on top of the old, much as the Earth’s landscape covers the old with the new. Digging down, one discovers the fossil remnants of the past >> we sampled 20 introductory psychology textbooks published between 2009 and 2017. Of the 14 that mention brain evolution, 86% contained at least one inaccuracy along the lines described above. >> For example, Dijksterhuis and Bargh (2001), [...] write that: when new species develop, this is done by adding new brain parts to existing old ones >> Examples of MacLean model of brain evolution appear in other areas, including models of personality (Epstein, 1994), attention (Mirsky & Duncan, 2002), psychopathology (Cory & Gardner, 2002), market economics (Cory, 2002), and morality (Narvaez, 2008). Nonacademic examples are too numerous to fully review. >> Carl Sagan's (1978) Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Dragons of Eden, and Steven Johnson's (2005) Mind Wide Open were both popular books that drew heavily on this idea
- mistermann 3y ago
  If the authors are going to classify colloquial language (3 brains) as literal, their own study is then open to the same attack, and there is plenty of material from even the short skim of it I did. "Pedantry" is a double edged sword.
- JoeAltmaier 3y ago
  has inherited essentially three brains. fossile remnants The quoted text give lie to the title. Nobody said it was an onion etc. Just that it was built new structures on old, all changing, integrated more or less well. Not being pedantic, I don't think? The title is disparaging, deconstructing the idea to the point of ridicule. It's reasonable to say "Nobody said that!"

This is an example of an article that claims to debunk something that nobody said. Anyway it was informative and clarified things nicely. Just wish it had a better lead.

mrkeen 3y ago

> article that claims to debunk something that nobody said About a third of the article was dedicated to who said it and when: >> As Paul MacLean (1964), originator of the triune-brain theory, stated: man, it appears, has inherited essentially three brains. >> This belief, although widely shared and stated as fact in psychology textbooks, lacks any foundation in evolutionary biology. >> The most widely used introductory textbook in psychology states that: ... The brain’s increasing complexity arises from new brain systems built on top of the old, much as the Earth’s landscape covers the old with the new. Digging down, one discovers the fossil remnants of the past >> we sampled 20 introductory psychology textbooks published between 2009 and 2017. Of the 14 that mention brain evolution, 86% contained at least one inaccuracy along the lines described above. >> For example, Dijksterhuis and Bargh (2001), [...] write that: when new species develop, this is done by adding new brain parts to existing old ones >> Examples of MacLean model of brain evolution appear in other areas, including models of personality (Epstein, 1994), attention (Mirsky & Duncan, 2002), psychopathology (Cory & Gardner, 2002), market economics (Cory, 2002), and morality (Narvaez, 2008). Nonacademic examples are too numerous to fully review. >> Carl Sagan's (1978) Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Dragons of Eden, and Steven Johnson's (2005) Mind Wide Open were both popular books that drew heavily on this idea

mistermann 3y ago
If the authors are going to classify colloquial language (3 brains) as literal, their own study is then open to the same attack, and there is plenty of material from even the short skim of it I did. "Pedantry" is a double edged sword.
JoeAltmaier 3y ago
has inherited essentially three brains. fossile remnants The quoted text give lie to the title. Nobody said it was an onion etc. Just that it was built new structures on old, all changing, integrated more or less well. Not being pedantic, I don't think? The title is disparaging, deconstructing the idea to the point of ridicule. It's reasonable to say "Nobody said that!"