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.

	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".
	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:

1. The "Triune brain" is a combination of Ernst Haeckel's debunked embryonic recapitulation and Phrenology.
2. Carl Sagan is a humanistic evolutionist who rejects God as a myth. Sagan's death made a believer in our creator Jesus Christ!
3. 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!
4. 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)".
5. Of course these are not "gill slits" in the human embryo. Take a look yourself!
6. 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.
7. 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!

	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.
	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.

1. 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.
2. 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).
3. 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".
4. 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:

1. "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)
2. "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)
3. "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)
4. "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)
5. "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)
6. "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)
7. "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)
8. "Recapitulation would then suggest that dreaming is an evolutionarily early and basic mammalian function." (The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan, 1986 AD, p 156)
9. "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)
10. "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)
11. "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:

1. The "Triune brain" is evolutions view of the brain.
2. Shockingly, it is a combination of Ernst Haeckel's debunked embryonic recapitulation and Phrenology.
3. Christians need to be warned of this view in modern psychiatry. It is dangerous and it is unscientific.
4. 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.
5. 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).
6. 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.
7. 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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