The Unified Theory of the Nervous System
and Behavior
Cognitive Philosophy /Brain Theory by Steven Michael Harris
When Einstein was thinking of his first great theory, he was working as a patent clerk. He struggled for about five years to get physicists to pay attention to this theory.
During this time, many physicists ignored him and some called his ideas "crazy." "Why should we pay attention to some crazy patent clerk," they said. After all, he was not employed by a great university or institution as they were and physics is hard stuff.
His problem was compounded by the fact that only a handful of people in the world were capable of comprehending the math involved in working up his theory.
But Einstein was dealing with the world of physics which is much smaller than the massive world of medicine and neurobiology. Breaking into the world of physics as an outsider is a breeze compared with breaking into the world of medicine as an outsider (especially brain medicine).
If Einstein was trying to present a theory of the brain to doctors and psychiatrists, etc., they would not only ignore him and say that his ideas were crazy, but they would diagnose him.
And the mathematics involved in a theory of the brain could be much more complicated than required for the theories of physics. (Who would be able to understand these calculations? Would they have the ability to comprehend the subtlety of human observation and understand the factors being measured?)
The kind of mind that is brilliant in math is rarely the kind of mind that is good at human and emotional understanding. The mind needed to solve these problems would be very rare in being brilliant in both types of thinking. And the mind needed to fully understand this person's theories would need to be impressive as well. The person who makes this kind of discovery needs to be a clever communicator or the ideas will never be utilized by society.
When a society of physicists says that you are crazy, they only have the power to ignore you. When a society of psychiatrists says that you are crazy, they have the power to remove your civil rights, lock you into an institution, and force you to take toxic medication against your will.
You need to be very careful about being too smart around a group of psychiatrists.
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