Buttocks

A thought: It’s common knowledge that a muscular pair of buttocks on a man are enjoyed by many a person  (Pair of buttocks? Can you have one buttock? One firm, one not? Would that be okay? I suppose it’s always a pair of pants, and you can’t just have one pant. And only having one buttock would raise questions pertaining to many gastro-intestinal requirements which don’t bear thinking about).

The gluteus minimus and gluteus maximus muscles which form the bottom evolved in relation to walking and running. Sometimes running away from things. It’s not like you run at a wooly mammoth (to call upon a historical example); you wait for one and ambush it with fifty of your friends. Running is good for survival.

So essentially, in appreciating your well-toned derriere, people are (in a reductionist way) appreciating you for your ability to scamper away at speed from threats. Cowardice.

Evolutionary imperatives are confusing and disgraceful.

Second Hand

The Loop of Understanding

Because the brain actively and continuously re-engineers itself, merely thinking about something changes the brain itself. So if we know how that works, the very knowledge of how the brain functions then changes the way the brain functions.

It’s a tight loop, but it also has effects on a social level too. Like the important scientific discoveries and perspectives that have changed peoples mindsets, for example the understanding of the term ‘ego’ and the relativism revolutions, this understanding of neurons will also feed back into the way the brain is structured, in a larger loop. Not only do we know different things, we now think differently, maybe so much so, that an intellectual discussion between a contemporary citizen and one from say, two thousand years ago, would be nigh-on impossible. Thus social events feed back in very real and tangibly physical ways in terms of how our brains are structured.