Revenge of the lizard brain
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Revenge of the lizard brain
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Re: Revenge of the lizard brain
#2Thanks for the information, I was guilty of perpetuating this myth too.
Re: Revenge of the lizard brain
#3Thanks for the information, I was guilty of perpetuating this myth too.
You're not alone! The most upvoted answer on Quora did this too. http://www.quora.com/Procrastination/How-do-I-get-over-my-ba...
Credit to the author, he wrote an (equally well received) apology after he was corrected in this.
Re: Revenge of the lizard brain
#4No matter someone's stance on this, it seems a bit forward to discredit a relatively widely-held theory as something that is weakly argued by providing a few bullet points and then an outright assertion of another competing theory. This kind of thing has no place on Hacker News.
Re: Revenge of the lizard brain
#5No matter someone's stance on this, it seems a bit forward to discredit a relatively widely-held theory as something that is weakly argued by providing a few bullet points and then an outright assertion of another competing theory. This kind of thing has no place on Hacker News.
How is it a widely-held theory? It hasn't stood up to scrutiny, at least any well documented tests.
It is sorta misleading, in fact, because a lot of good authors and speakers assume it as a well known fact and add their leaps of imagination to it. It is OK at best as a pop culture thing, maybe a poetic spin off.
Why does it have no place on Hacker ... oh, you know what, scratch that. No point entering that debate. Thanks.
Re: Revenge of the lizard brain
#6No matter someone's stance on this, it seems a bit forward to discredit a relatively widely-held theory as something that is weakly argued by providing a few bullet points and then an outright assertion of another competing theory. This kind of thing has no place on Hacker News.
It's not a scientific theory, at best it's folk wisdom. This article is pointing out that there is no scientific basis for it.
The onus is not on anyone to disprove the theory, the onus is on the theory's proponents to prove it, they haven't done so, not to the slightest degree.
Re: Revenge of the lizard brain
#7No matter someone's stance on this, it seems a bit forward to discredit a relatively widely-held theory as something that is weakly argued by providing a few bullet points and then an outright assertion of another competing theory. This kind of thing has no place on Hacker News.
The bullet points are objective and contain links to the scientific literature. The triune brain theory is rather more subjective.
Re: Revenge of the lizard brain
#8Thanks for the information, I was guilty of perpetuating this myth too.
You're not alone! The most upvoted answer on Quora did this too. http://www.quora.com/Procrastination/How-do-I-get-over-my-ba... Credit to the author, he wrote an (equally well received) apology after he was corrected in this.
I disagree actually. It's obviously not a legitimate scientific hypothesis, and shouldn't be presented as such, but it's still a really useful way to think about procrastination.
Re: Revenge of the lizard brain
#9How can you have a lizard brain when lizards are an unrelated evolutionary branch? It should be a frog brain perhaps.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're not alone! The most upvoted answer on Quora did this too. http://www.quora.com/Procrastination/How-do-I-get-over-my-ba... Credit to the author, he wrote an (equally well received) apology after he was corrected in this.
I disagree actually. It's obviously not a legitimate scientific hypothesis, and shouldn't be presented as such, but it's still a really useful way to think about procrastination.
People do present it or use it as a scientific fact.