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Current neurochemical research using molecular biological tools such as mice knockouts (the ablation of specific proteins though interference with their nucleotide-mediated protein biosynthesis), for example, the production of animals missing a subunit of their hippocampal glutamate receptors associated with the loss of some memory functions, conclude the memorial mechanism to be a specific cellular region, such as hippocampal CA3 cells. Technology advances but continues to support a primitive philosophic animism of named brain parts which pop science icons like the late Francis Crick called “The Amazing Hypothesis.” He and his fellow brain philosophers implicate brain mechanisms such as the amygdaloidal nucleus man who can emotionally color even affectually neutral information that is transported through him. Imaging data showing amygdala man lighting up is used to tell us that circulating sensory information through the differentially behaving amygdaloid nucleus is used for fight or flight interpretive significance. Emotionally expressive human faces light up inferior parietal cortex. The Iowa University Professors, the husband and wife Damasios, have located even the criminal psychopath man in specific locations in the brain. As we have argued, perhaps ad nausem, using multimillion-dollar imaging and molecular biological technology and no new thoughts that weren’t around during the era of the 19th Century’s neuroanatomists, specific brain regions continue to gain implicative properties like the task-specialized gods of the Roman and Greek pantheons. Crick implied that God is a brain part.

At the same time, those of us that have been in the brain business for a while, recall skyscraper window washers, standing steady, high up on rope lashed planks, suffering from congenital absence of the cerebellum, the supposed sine qua non brain part supporting motor coordination and balance in humans. More generally, there is much evidence that if young enough and willing to work, many of the functions of missing parts of the brain can be taken on remarkably well by other brain parts thought not to be involved in these functions at all. In addition, since evidence of neuronal responding to loud noise or bright light perturbation can be found almost everywhere in the hyper-connected human brain, because anticipation and brain time inversions make before and after indicate little about human

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