“Structurally we should understand that one cannot think that the human brain is different from the brain of the other vertebrates. It is an important question, because we can investigate what is the difference between the brain of a mouse and ours, and of course the difference is enormous, in size and capacity.” ThinkingShouldHumansImportantDifferentCoursesDifferencesBrainCapacitySizeEnormousMiceHuman BrainImportant QuestionsVertebrates Author:Rodolfo Llinas
“The different political systems, religions and social habits demonstrate that the same brain can be tuned in different manners. But the tuning capacity is limited. We can never feel as a jaguar, for example. We can imagine a man who believes or who intends to be a jaguar, but to intend is not the same as to be. We can have other ideologies, but we will continue restricted by the nature of our brain and of our body.” MenFeelsBelieveDifferentBodyPoliticalSocialBrainImagineExampleHabitCapacityIdeologyMannersPolitical SystemsTuningJaguars Author:Rodolfo Llinas
“The future of human relationships will be directly related to the cerebral functions. For this reason it is already a fundamental thing. In the past, and well until today, some South American countries have had a great neuropharmacological history, since the natives' times. It is necessary that we remind ourselves of the many licit and illicit drugs that were generated in our continent and that act on the brain.” HumansWellsCountryReasonTodayPastBrainDrugFunctionFundamentalsSouthRelatedContinentsHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsCerebral Author:Rodolfo Llinas
“Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because they don't move actively, they don't pull up their roots and run in a forest fire! Anything that moves actively requires a nervous system; otherwise it would come to a quick death.” NeedsTwoRunningMovingAnimalBrainFireTypeRootsPlantForestsNervousNervous SystemPull UpsForest FiresQuick Death Author:Rodolfo Llinas
“The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning.” IfsLooksProcessBornBrainCreativityRationalReasoningRationality Author:Rodolfo Llinas