For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins
For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins
Or, to focus a little, the reptilian brain – the oldest on your brain list (to which I would gingerly add terrestrial and extraterrestrial as mega-taxonomies, and gelatinous, viscous, carbon, silicon, muddy, marbled, etc., to those sub-, meta- and para-genuses.) – includes the brain stem, which regulates digestion, breathing and heartbeat. More importantly for our purposes, it provides the basis of emotions such as hunger, fear, excitement, pleasure and anger. These basic or ‘core’ emotions were not developed enough for these species to love and care for their offspring properly. These underdeveloped emotions might have led the parents to commit FILICIDE if some predator they couldn’t protect themselves from didn’t already kill them. The next big phase of development, the limbic brain, is discerned to have begun as the first mammals appeared. The parts of the brain’s nervous centres that were developed at this greying time were the hippocampus and the amygdala, which are the parts of the brain that are RESPONSIBLE for storing memories. (Those first memories swaddled in thick, warming fur and reeking of hay. Chirping like guinea-pigs.) Think of it as a kind of solid-state hard disk, if you like... These brain developments combined with an increased emotional dexterousness allowed for mammals to not only care more coherently for their infants, but also to live with their partner and/or herd/ school/flock without the incessant threat of violent eruption. The neocortical brain phase occurred one hundred million years ago and was the last big phase of brain development. Which is shocking, no? – During this stage the cerebral cortex was greatly enhanced, allowing for the lucky species to plan their own actions, learn information quicker, and so adapt easily, communicate efficiently (with their own species), and portray empathetic and altruistic characteristics. This might lead you to think of LOVE – which is all it’s ever been about anyway. As in, love and other malcontents. Love, the Great Destroyer. Love, that paradigm! Love: the Vanishing Point. Love: a certain
perspective. Isomorphic love. That visceral love between molluscs. A terrible, grotesque love manifest in FILICIDE. Or listen to this: [...]
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perspective. Isomorphic love. That visceral love between molluscs.<br />
A terrible, grotesque love <strong>man</strong>ifest in FILICIDE.<br />
Or listen to this:<br />
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