Regressive

The human brain represents a vast complexity, able to gather immense quantities of various content of information. Its composition is based on evolutionary rhythms, developing inside out.

Deep within lies the brain core, which function is to oversee and control basic biological functions including all rhythms of life. Higher brain functions had developed most likely in three stages. The brain core is covered with R complex, base of aggressiveness, rituality, territoriality and social hierarchy. This part of the brain had developed as a gift from our reptile ancestors. Above the R complex there is the limbic system, developed by our mammal ancestors. This is the source of our moods and feelings, our care and tenderness for our offspring, and for one another. And at the end, above all our past, there is the fruit of the evolution, the primate brain – our cortex, coexisting in tranquility and restless truce with all other primitive intelligence which lie beneath it. A place where matter is transformed into consciousness, an undisputed home of all our exploration and advancement. It is the base of our intuition and critical analysis. Here we give birth to our thoughts and dreams, in there we read and write; it is a place where we solve mathematical issues, where we compose all songs in life. The cortex regulates our conscious life, it’s where abstract thoughts are being born. This tissue is characteristic only for our kind, it’s the base of humanity. All of the civilization we enjoy today is a construct of this part of the brain.

Even in dreams, the brain follows the rhythm of life, it: dreams, remembers, imagines. Our thoughts, visions and fantasies own physical reality. Our capabilities lie undreamed before us.

However, it has been noticed that lack of stable conditions in our lives, which influence positive development and growth of oneself in general, contributes to a certain regression in the human behavior. Shortage of positive atmosphere around us, stressful conditions in our days, pour satisfaction, deficiency of love, deprivation of REM sleep, insufficient communication, depressive tendencies; all lead toward: continual individualization, lack of kindness, traces of care for others, increase in aggressiveness, extended need for territoriality, not to mention a number of mental illnesses; all in all regression into savagery.

It’s futile and childish to say that we are constructs of our environment. Our environment is in fact a product of our behavior. It is our own choice whether we want to stay humans or regress into reptiles.