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Why should laminar differentiation
make such a spectacular difference in
the mental output of rather similar
brains?
It
doesn't matter. Experimental
evidence or theoretical justification
never had to be considered.4 There
was
no
other choice! In contradistinc–
tion to all too many scientists, Kruger
makes the reader aware of his solid
reasoning procedures
and we
appreciate that.
Cetacean versus Human
In conclusion now, what have we
learned from cetacean brain? Slijper
states that the whaJe brain almost
equals the human brain. Neurophysiol–
ogists have notoriously strained to
ascertain why these hugc, highly com–
plex cetacean brains are not actually
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thore
art
¡:ood
reasons. Order
con–
t•in< more inlormation than disorder. Further–
more. the íntcraction :amon.t cortical neurons
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e~pcciall¡
what is called "lateral inhibitioos" -
is made easier
by
the neurons situated next to
e.tch other in rows or laminars.
PLAIN TRUTH Moy 1972
superior to human brains. And Kruger
must utilize circular reasoning to
prove that the human brain is even
slíghtly more advanced, employing a
"last-resort" lam-inar analysis of cere–
bral cortex to do so - after negating
all the other so-called "proofs."
Obviously, the human brain
is
phys–
ically superior to any cetaceao brain.
We've never doubted that fact.
Kruger's right. He makes his point.
But this is our point:
If
Kruger had to brilliantly struggle
to keep the human brain just barely
superior to cetacean brain, how then
can anybody explain by physical
means alone thc yawning chasm be–
tween the unrestrained mental activi–
ties of human beings and the stereo–
typed instincts of porpoises, dolphins,
and whales?
It is physically impossible.
A non-physical factor is demanded.
(T
o
Be Contimted)
O
N THE following two pages,
we compare man to chimp
and chimp to rat. Why are
humans so mentally superior to
chimps, while chimps are only barely
superior to rats? Again we ask: Can
the reason be just physical?
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