LCR: Lizard Brain Politics

Columbia Law professor Patricia J. Williams:
"The virtual absence of prefrontal cortical activity in post-debate analyses should remind us that without critical thinking, we are not much more than that little nub of neurons that constitutes the lizard's entire brain.
   "Critical Thinking is the most valuable product of a good education. It allows us to negotiate the world using both the executive functions of our prefrontal lobes as well as the emotional intelligence  of our limbic system. A psychologist friend says it's akin to the power of metaphor: being able to understand comparisons at a deep level means we must be neither hyper-scientistically literal nor awash in our feelings, but able to make creative connections among different experiences, languages, and worlds."
Read the whole article at: http://www.thenation.com/article/170486/our-lizard-brain-politics