![]() ![]() Plants have some measure of flexibility which enable them to survive when their living conditions change, but their ability to adapt is very limited compared to animals who, while they may be adapted to a particular habitat, have a brain which is sufficiently flexible to deal with unexpected changes which may occur in their natural habitat. As their natural habitat changes, so their chances of survival fall. The animal brain developed to allow natural learning, without which the fate of animals would be the same as that of plants – entirely dependent on their surroundings. ![]() This potential, if left undeveloped, will lead to the decline and degeneration of modern culture and will remove the chance of fostering a developed democratic consciousness that requires the exploitation of the brain’s learning ability to combat numerous natural tendencies that are contrary to democratic ideas. ![]() This led on the one hand to great technological achievements, but on the other hand has harmed the possibilities of developing human learning abilities which would allow people to broaden their learning potential. The secondary aim of this chapter is to show how Western culture has taken advantage of the unique learning capacity of humans to suppress these abilities beyond natural suppression due to survival needs. Although the physiological changes that took place in the evolution of the human brain compared to apes are small, these changes crucially enabled a different kind of learning capacity compared to other animals. The aim of this chapter is to describe the human brain’s capacity for learning, which deviates somewhat from the evolutionary path of animal brains in related species. I will present here findings from brain research and describe the characteristics of Western culture on which these claims are founded, as an expression of the threat to the continuing development of modern human culture due to characteristics which demonstrate a process similar to the cultural degeneration of past civilizations, which at their peak, could not have imagined such a fall to be possible. Humans yield most of the time to the processes of self-taming/training of the brain, even empowering them through the Western concept of learning, which idolizes focused narrow-specialization. The move to automation of learning outcomes is based on mechanisms, which can be used to tame animals, including man. For survival and energy-saving purposes, the brain is developed in such a way that the learning process is as short as possible, while most energy is devoted to converting the results of learning into automatic activity. Based on findings from brain research, we can show that this is the primary function of the brain. Animal brains, and specifically the human brain, are developed in such a way to make learning possible. Learning is the ability to cope with changes and to understand their interaction with the dynamic body. ![]()
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