Neurobiology of Human Error Imagine a world where humans are integrated with nature, living a free, healthy and ecologically sustainable life; a life without war, deception, unjust law, corruption, pollution, artificial radiation, mass hypnosis, poverty and starvation. This will remain a faint reality in our collective imagination unless we realize the error of human behavior. It is a behavior that challenges our Earth’s ecosystem and natural balance and the same behavior that is concurrent with a rising rate of cancer, mental illness, pollution and suicide. To improve the social and ecological environment for ourselves and our children, we must engage in the challenge to understand what has brought us to this point. Even if you feel secure in your own achievements, status and assets, you still have to breath the air, drink the water and eat the food that somebody else could endanger with detrimental actions. There are specific neurobiological mechanisms which become the foundations of our behavior and cognition. Developed with the evolution of human intelligence, these foundations may result in unwanted exogenous conditioning, artificial neuroplastic re-adaptation and wrong learning. Neuronal networks in the human brain are organized through our experiences into an architectural grid-like structure that determines how we respond in the present and future. Our brains have evolved so that signals from the natural environment determine our behavior through reinforcing synapses (like traffic preferring certain roads on the grid), and also through our genes via the epigenetic effect. Artificial environments and imposed dogmas replace this epigenetic effect with associative conditioning. This creates a short-circuit “glitch” in the part of our brain which manages the consequences of one’s actions (neo-cortex). This “Evolutionary Glitch” has been shown by Neurophysiologists and Neurobiologists to cause prolonged inhibition of action and in turn generate a cascade effect of physiological unbalanced consequences including the suppression of endocrine and immunological responses. This manifests in us as conflict and sufferance. A computer with perfect software and
erroneous data will produce erroneous results. A perfect engine running with
the wrong fuel will cause its own failure. A human being with a perfect
synaptic network capability and the wrong learned system of behavior can be
destructive to himself and others. So let me ask you, what are you doing about it? |
