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What Carl Sagan got very wrong about the human brain - C C - Jun 5, 2023
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/carl-sagan-reptile-brain/
KEY POINTS: Science communicator and astrophysicist Carl Sagan was, and to this day is, generally regarded as an honest and skeptical broker of scientific information. However, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Dragons of Eden, Sagan endorsed a disputed theory of human brain evolution, suggesting that humans have a "reptilian" brain deep within our minds. The idea has since been roundly disproved, but the myth that humans have a reptile brain persists almost certainly thanks to Sagan's problematic popularizing... (MORE - details)
RE: What Carl Sagan got very wrong about the human brain - Magical Realist - Jun 5, 2023
If anything it was a put down of reptiles to be labeled with a primitive and purely territorial brain. Anyone who has ever had a pet reptile knows they can be very intelligent and loving creatures.