No, you don't have a Lizard brain in you | A modern myth about brain | - Taking Notes #1
This is a new blog series called "Taking Notes" that I am starting. Here, I'll be summarising things I learn on a daily basis. My goal is to write a blog under this topic at least 3-4 times a week. I've started reading "Seven and a half lessons about the brain" by Lisa Feldman, a neuroscientist who I got to know about through Sam Harris' recent podcast. This blog is highly inspired by the first chapter of that book. Humanity has been believing in the "Triune" theory of brain for a long time. Although it has been disproven decades ago but people still preach this theory. I have myself read about this theory as a kind of "fact" from reputed sources. This is actually a modern myth. This myth was started by philosophers like Plato, and recently popularised by Carl Sagan in 1977. Plato said that our mind has 3 parts. One controls survival instincts , like hunger and sex drive. Second controls emotions . And third controls rationality . Pl...