Saying Goodbye to the Triune Brain Theory

 I have recently learned that the Triune Brain theory has been fully disproved. This is quite the shock to the system and to the public consciousness, which has very much taken to the theory.

I think there is a strong experiential reality of the "baser instincts" or otherwise, a hierarchy of impulses, that fits neatly into the model of the Triune Braine. 

I need to look into it more, but I don't necessarily think that this particular theory being disproved negates that experiential reality of a hierarchy of needs. It merely reorganizes how we spatially conceptualize it, maybe.

Similar to how the constructed theory of emotions does not plunge us into chaos, and queer theory does not erase the reality of things such as sex... a conceptual shift cannot negate obvious immediate realities. Intellectual deconstruction can not physically deconstruct material reality. All it can do is give us leverage in our interactions with the material, and its ability to give us leverage is entirely dictated by how accurate it is to the material reality. That fact is the ultimate foil to post-modernism, which was quite ambitious in scope to the point of becoming delusional. Although, I haven't studied it myself. Apparently queer theory was a misinterpretation of Foucault, and he never said some of the things people take him as having said.

Onward to my homework now.

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