Body: | Neo-Phrenology: The Triune Brain
Psychiatry anti-Christian and is founded in Darwinian evolution and
Humanism
The "Triune brain" is a combination of Ernst Haeckel's debunked embryonic
recapitulation and Phrenology.
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The Triune Brain of Psychiatry, Evolution and humanism is a form of Phrenology.
Mental illnesses like schizophrenia are caused by an over active "Reptilian-complex" part of the brain.
Ernst Haeckel's embryonic recapitulation theory that was proven a fraud over 60 years ago, but still survives in university textbooks. The Triune Brain, is founded upon Haeckel's fraud that we call, "Piltdown Embryo".
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Junk Science gone to seed:
"mental illness caused by and over active R-complex"
"many psychotic illnesses-e.g., hebephrenic schizophrenia-could be the result of hyperactivity of some center in the R-complex, or of a failure of some neocortical site whose function is to repress or override the R-complex." (The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan, 1986 AD, p64)
A. Psychiatry is founded in Darwinian evolution and Humanism:
The "Triune brain" is a combination of Ernst Haeckel's debunked
embryonic recapitulation and Phrenology.
Carl Sagan is a humanistic evolutionist who rejects God as a myth.
Sagan's death made a believer in our creator Jesus Christ!
Unbelievably Sagan parrots the Ernst Haeckel's embryonic
recapitulation theory that was proven a fraud over 60 years ago, even
though it still is taught in today's university biology textbooks as a
proof of evolution. Sagan says that human brain structure mirrors our
previous brains as reptiles etc. He calls this most primitive part of the
brain the "R-complex" or the "Reptilian-complex". This whole idea is junk
science at its worst!
He even echoes the long debunked idea that humans have gill slits:
"The fish stage even has gill slits, which are absolutely useless for the
embryo who is nourished via the umbilical cord, but a necessity for human
embryology: since gills were vital to our ancestors, we run through a gill
stage in becoming human. Our gill slits are vestiges not of ancient fish
but of ancient fish embryos. Many new organ systems." (The Dragons of Eden,
Carl Sagan, 1986 AD, p59)".
Of course these are not "gill slits" in the human embryo. Take a
look yourself!
In a futile effort to sweep away all the stunning scientific
evidence for the co-existence of man and dinosaur, he says that humans
retain memories of long extinct dinosaurs from vestigial memories of the
R-complex part of the brain.
He also argues that psychotic illnesses like hebephrenic
schizophrenia are caused by an over active "Reptilian-complex" part of the
brain.
B. The reason Activist Judges who favour rehabilitation instead of hard
jail time:
"The reptilian brain is coming out in them, they can't help it!"
Psychiatry allows criminals to go free by denying personal responsibility
through "mentally insane" pleas!
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Andrea Yates escaped both death and jail because he was not responsible for drowning her 5 children because she suffered from postpartum depression. Since January 2007, Yates vacations in the Kerrville low security Texas state mental hospital.
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In 2006, Mary Winkler shot her husband in the back while he slept in cold blood. A psychologist argued she was both depressed and suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome. She was sentenced to 210 days a Mental hospital and is currently a free woman.
This false view of the evolution of the brain, has led to social
reforms where judged and courts excuse sin and crime as an "over active
Reptilian-Complex" part of the brain. This is the cost of the false theory
of evolution to society.
Next time you get angry that a judge gives a 4 time pedophile a
sentence of probation and "rehabilitation", now you know why. The judge is
an evolutionist that believes the pedophile is merely acting out his
genetic instincts and cannot help his actions because the reptile is coming
out of him. (R-complex).
Mass murders, rapists and pedophiles suffering from mental illnesses
such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder once jailed. But now we are told
that "scientific and psychiatric research", has proven these people were
not criminals, they suffered from a disease! They couldn't help it! They
had broken brains... or an over active "R-complex".
Carl Sagan comments on the "social implications" of the Triune Brain
of evolution and humanism:
"I want to be very clear about the social implications of the contention
that reptilian brains influence human actions. If bureaucratic behavior is
controlled at its core by the R-complex, does this mean there is no hope
for the human future? In human beings, the neo-cortex represents about 85
percent of the brain, which is surely some index of its importance compared
to the brainstem, R-complex and limbic system. Neuro-anatomy, political
history, and introspection all offer evidence that human beings are quite
capable of resisting the urge to surrender to every impulse of the
reptilian brain. There is no way, for example, in which the Bill of Rights
of the U.S. Constitution could have been recorded, much less conceived, by
the R-complex. It is precisely our plasticity, our long childhood, that
prevents a slavish adherence to genetically preprogrammed behavior in human
beings more than in any other species. But if the triune brain is an
accurate model of how human beings function, it does no good whatever to
ignore the reptilian component of human nature, particularly our
ritualistic and hierarthical behavior; On the contrary, the model may help
us to understand what human beings are about. (I wonder, for example,
whether the ritual aspects of many psychotic illnesses-e.g., hebephrenic
schizophrenia-could be the result of hyperactivity of some center in the
R-complex, or of a failure of some neocortical site whose function is to
repress or override the R-complex. I also wonder whether the frequent
ritualistic behavior in young children is a consequence of the still-
incomplete development of their neocortices.)" (The Dragons of Eden, Carl
Sagan, 1986 AD, p64)
C. More quotes:
"From experiments such as those with squirrel monkeys, MacLean has
developed a captivating model of brain structure and evolution that he
calls the triune brain. "We are obliged," he says, "to look at ourselves
and the world through the eyes of three quite different mentalities," two
of which lack the power of speech. The human brain, MacLean holds, "amounts
to three interconnected biological computers," each with "its own special
intelligence, its own subjectivity, its own sense of time and space, its
own memory, motor, and other functions." Each brain corresponds to a
separate major evolutionary step. The three brains are said to be
distinguished neuroanatomically and functionally, and contain strikingly
different distributions of the neurochemicals dopamine and cholinesterase."
(The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan, 1986 AD, p57)
"MacLean has distinguished three sorts of drivers of the neural
chassis. The most ancient of them surrounds the midbrain (and is made up
mostly of what neuroanatomists call the olfactostriatum, the corpus
striatum, and the globus pallidus). We share it with the other mammals and
the reptiles. It probably evolved several hundred million years ago.
MacLean calls it the reptilian or R-complex." (The Dragons of Eden, Carl
Sagan, 1986 AD, p58)
"It is very difficult to evolve by altering the deep fabric of life;
any change there is likely to be lethal. But fundamental change can be
accomplished by the addition of new systems on top of old ones. This is
reminiscent of a doctrine which was called recapitulation by Ernst Haeckel,
a nineteenth-century German anatomist, and which has gone through various
cycles of scholarly acceptance and rejection. Haeckel held that in its
embryological development, an animal tends to repeat or recapitulate the
sequence that its ancestors followed during their evolution. And indeed in
human intrauterine development we run through stages very much like fish,
reptiles and nonprimate mammals before we become recognizably human. The
fish stage even has gill slits, which are absolutely useless for the embryo
who is nourished via the umbilical cord, but a necessity for human
embryology: since gills were vital to our ancestors, we run through a gill
stage in becoming human. The brain of a human fetus also develops from the
inside out, and, roughly speaking, runs through the sequence: neural
chassis, R-complex, limbic system and neocortex. A highly schematic
representation of the reptilian complex, limbic system, and neocortex in
the human brain, after MacLean. The reason for recapitulation may be
understood as follows: Natural selection operates only on individuals, not
on species and not very much on eggs or fetuses. Thus the latest
evolutionary change appears postpartum. The fetus may have characteristics,
like the gill slits in mammals, that are entirely maladaptive after birth,
but as long as they cause no serious problems for the fetus and are lost
before birth, they can be retained. Our gill slits are vestiges not of
ancient fish but of ancient fish embryos. Many new organ systems." (The
Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan, 1986 AD, p59)
"If the preceding view is correct, we should expect the R-complex in
the human brain to be in some sense performing dinosaur functions still;
and the limbic cortex to be thinking the thoughts of pumas and ground
sloths. Without a doubt, each new step in brain evolution is accompanied by
changes in the physiology of the preexisting components of the brain. The
evolution of the R-complex must have seen changes in the midbrain, and so
on. What is more, we know that the control of many functions is shared in
different components of the brain. But at the same time it would be
astonishing if the brain components beneath the neocortex were not to a
significant extent still performing as they did in our remote ancestors.
MacLean has shown that the R-complex plays an important role in aggressive
behavior, territoriality, ritual and the establishment of social
hierarchies." (The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan, 1986 AD, p63)
"The pervasiveness of dragon myths in the folk legends of many
cultures is probably no accident." (The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan, 1986
AD, p149)
"When we feared the dragons, were we fearing a part of ourselves?
One way or an-other, there were dragons in Eden." (The Dragons of Eden,
Carl Sagan, 1986 AD, p150)
"In the metaphor of the triune brain, dreams are partially a
function of the R-complex and the limbic cortex, but not of the rational
part of the neocortex." (The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan, 1986 AD, p 154)
"Recapitulation would then suggest that dreaming is an
evolutionarily early and basic mammalian function." (The Dragons of Eden,
Carl Sagan, 1986 AD, p 156)
"There is a striking correlation of penile or clitoral erection with
REM sleep, even when the manifest dream content has no overt sexual aspects
whatever. In primates, such erections are connected with sex (of course!),
aggression and the maintenance of social hierarchies. I think that when we
dream there is a part of us engaged in activities rather like those of the
squirrel monkeys I saw in Paul MacLean's laboratory. The R-complex is
functioning in the dreams of humans; the dragons can be heard, hissing and
rasping, and the dinosaurs thunder still." (The Dragons of Eden, Carl
Sagan, 1986 AD, p 157)
"There is one hypothesis that seems to me consistent with all the
foregoing facts: The evolution of the limbic system involved a radically
new way of viewing the world. The survival of the early mammals depended on
intelligence, daytime unobtrusiveness, and devotion to the young. The world
as perceived through the R-complex was quite a different world. Because of
the accretionary nature of the evolution of the brain, R-complex functions
could be utilized or partially bypassed but not ignored. Thus, an
inhibition center developed below what in humans is the temporal lobe, to
turn off much of the functioning of the reptilian brain; and an activation
center evolved in the pons to turn on the R-complex, but harmlessly, during
sleep. This view, of course, has some notable points of similarity to
Freud's picture of the repression of the id by the superego (or of the
unconscious by the conscious), with expressions of the id made most clearly
manifest in slips of the tongue, free associations, dreams and the
like-that is, during the interstices of superego repression." (The
Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan, 1986 AD, p 159)
"We are descended from reptiles and mammals both. In the daytime
repression of the R-complex and in the nighttime stirring of the dream
dragons, we may each of us be replaying the hundred-million-year-old
warfare between the reptiles and the mammals. Only the times of day of the
vampiric hunt have been reversed. Human beings exhibit enough reptilian
behavior as it is. If we gave full rein to the reptilian aspects of our
nature, we would clearly have a low survival potential. Because the
R-complex is woven so intimately into the fabric of the brain, its
functions cannot be entirely avoided for long. Perhaps the dream state
permits, in our fantasy and its reality, the R-complex to function
regularly, as if it were still in control." (The Dragons of Eden, Carl
Sagan, 1986 AD, p 160)
Conclusion:
The "Triune brain" is evolutions view of the brain.
Shockingly, it is a combination of Ernst Haeckel's debunked
embryonic recapitulation and Phrenology.
Christians need to be warned of this view in modern psychiatry. It
is dangerous and it is unscientific.
This false view of the evolution of the brain, has led to social
reforms where judged and courts excuse sin and crime as an "over active
Reptilian-Complex" part of the brain. This is the cost of the false theory
of evolution to society.
Next time you get angry that a judge gives a 4 time pedophile a
sentence of probation and "rehabilitation", now you know why. The judge is
an evolutionist that believes the pedophile is merely acting out his
genetic instincts and cannot help his actions because the reptile is coming
out of him. (R-complex).
Mass murders, rapists and pedophiles suffering from mental illnesses
such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder once jailed for their crimes.
This was justice. There is no exception for sin in the Bible for mental
illness. But now we are told that "scientific and psychiatric research",
has proven these people were not criminals, they suffered from a disease!
They couldn't help it! Well now you know part of that "research" is the
false belief in an evolutionary "R-complex" of the brain.
The triune Brain of Psychiatry, Evolution and humanism is pure junk
science. It invokes two debunked theories: embryonic recapitulation and
Phrenology.
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