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One is what you might call the "reptile brain," which reads such signals and simply interprets them as "this is my pack leader." I'm curious to know, which rep

• api 11y ago
  It's a figure of speech. It's also a bit derisive, since we humans like to think we are so much more rational than that. A more accurate term would be primate social instincts. But this stuff I suspect predates the neocortex.
• ceejayoz 11y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain
  • imron 11y ago
    From the first paragraph of the article: However, this hypothesis is no longer espoused by the majority of comparative neuroscientists in the post-2000 era.
    • ceejayoz 11y ago
      Yeah, it's probably BS. It seems to be a commonly espoused belief in MRA circles.