Even assuming that there is an archaic part of the brain that is important, it must have many interdependencies with later parts of the brain. The term “lizard” brains falls along with “genetics” as a scientistic element in social interaction.
There are people who are fixated on the term “lizard brain”. I know nothing about how the brain works, but it strikes me that this is used as a metaphorical justification for undertaking and explaining actions—possibly to avoid responsibility.
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People talk about “genetics” as they would have spoken about God or spirits in the past. Behaviour, & inclinations are ascribed to “genetics”, regardless of the evidence, in everyday speech.
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Animal hindbrain works just as well to denote "primitive" urges, programme into the grey-matter substratum at a deep level.
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