From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Tue 18 Mar 2003 - 12:49:34 GMT
On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 11:22 PM, memetics-digest wrote:
> People who
> have had the left side of their brains removed are able to move the
> language
> processing to the remaining right side of the brain. Isn't that
> evidence of
> the brain changing at the organism level?
It is not evidence of _evolution_, only that the organism itself is
capable of adapting by utilizing different 'circuits' if you will, but
none of these things are physical, genetic, organism-level, changes.
The human has a brain that is capable of the complexities of
self-consciousness. Such a brain has many solutions for many problems,
and it is a dynamically functioning organ, not a pre-wired and
unadaptable microchip.
- Wade
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