Edit/tldr: my original comment concerned the foundation of or the seed of the historic belief of hepatocentrism rather than the reasoning or knowledge held by t

Edit/tldr: my original comment concerned the foundation of or the seed of the historic belief of hepatocentrism rather than the reasoning or knowledge held by those whose writings were influenced by or regarding hepatocentrism once it was already established. ——— I don’t particularly disagree with your response, but I think you’ve really read into what I was saying and so misrepresent my points. That’s probably my fault since I wrote it quickly. To hopefully help clarify (but again quickly, since I’m only here to procrastinate and my low-level feelings of fear are growing unpleasant.): In regard to their distractions and knowledge, I’m simply pointing out that they did not have today’s specific knowledge of human physiology and functioning. This would allow them to speculate further in other directions beyond the interests and areas of focus we have today that have been deemed logical and correct. And they did not have as many ready sources of information to distract them or to assure them that there was nothing more to learn. Sure, perhaps they were blind to this as we are, and so the relative effect would be much the same. But, there was still a quantitative difference in information and sources. And there were certainly branches of the knowledge or paths of specualtion that had not yet been cut off as some are today. By “ancients”, I include prehistoric man, whose feeling and thoughts would serve as the foundation for historical man’s own ideas and writings. I don’t mean to suggest that they were dumb or anything like that; only that they, without written word, would be more sense-oriented rather than concept-oriented. And in regard to “low-level feelings of fear”, I do not mean this to be inferior to overt conscious thought and reasoning. In fact, I think we fail all too often to attend to these feelings today and it harms us. These low-level feelings, fear or otherwise, still guide us today. We just don’t notice it as much and prefer to believe we move forward with logical plans rather than intuitive drives.