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Why the vast
difference
between
animal brain and
Part 111
We
now compare the human
brain with various animal
brains .
Our
objective is to
determine IF there is "some–
thing" in the human brain
that can adequately explain
the human mind.
by
Robert
L.
Kuhn
lllustrotions
by
Frank Armitage
with
Alo in Moreo u
John Solie
COMPARATIVE BRAIN SIZE–
Note the position of man's brain
-
smaller than whale's, ele–
phant's and dolphin's - and the
very similar external appearance.
H
UMAN
thought is vastly superior
to
animal
thought.
But
1/Jhy?
What
ca11ses
the
human mind to be so enormously more
advanced than the output of animal
brain?
To materialism, the answer is ob–
vious:
lt
llliiSt
be
because the human
brain
is equally more advanced than
animal brain.
But is this so? Is material ism right?
Can the difference between the human
brain and animal brain wholly account
for the spectacular differcnce between
human mental activity and animal men–
tal activity?
/s
human mental activity
wholly dependent on the physical
human brain ?
We fiod out - in this third article in
the series - by
romparing
the human
brain with various animal brains.
Brain Resea rch
But where do we locate unbiased
brain researchers?
Not on earth
that's for sure.
Therefore, we must fabricate sorne
exotic investigators - physiologists and
psychologists from the n
1
h
dimension
(who arrive on earth through what sci–
ence-fiction writers have labeled a
"space-time warp").
Their mission? To analyze the
2
•
mechanisms and relative behavior of all
intellígent Earth creatures.
Thc physíologists immediately recog–
nized that the
brain
was the most
intriguing object for study - it was the
machinery of behavior. Since mammals
possessed the most complex brains, the
chief physiologists commandeered the
investigation of mammals for them–
selves.
Jt seemed ( at first) that brain weight
should be proportional to intelligence.
Accordingly, the brains were weighed
- with a dcscending order of whale,
elephant, dolphin, man, chimpanzee,
cat, rat (seven must be a universal
number). Viewed superficially, the
large mammalian brains looked pretty
much alike. (See opposite illustration
showing the human braio in size com–
parison to animal brains.)
Comparative
anatomicai
studies dis–
closed a
tmiformity
of distinct brain
structures (sce pages 4 and 5): spinal
cords, medullas, cerebellums, mid–
brains, thalami, hypothalami, caudate
nuclei, corpus callosi, cerebral cortices,
and on and on - every component was
present in every brain, though their
absolute and relative sizes varied. Man's
brain was
not
unigue.
Comparative microanatomical analysis
(Pictmes
011
next 2 pages, arJicle
contimted on page 6)