Jonathan Schofield on Nostr: …Going out on a neurological limb here that I’m not qualified to pontificate on. ...

…Going out on a neurological limb here that I’m not qualified to pontificate on. Imprudently, here goes anyway…

As I understand it, our amygdala is much faster than our frontal cortex. Which has the effect that the latter is where we rationalise what we have already decided to do.

If we scale this up to the level of societies, we might speculate that governance and ideologies are rationalisations of what we’ve already decided to do.

And what we do is what we *can* do…