Curr Biol April 2015 PMID 25898097

The reptilian brain.

Robert K Naumann, Janie M Ondracek, Samuel Reiter, Mark Shein-Idelson, Maria Antonietta Tosches, Tracy M Yamawaki, Gilles Laurent

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What people are saying

There are numerous discussions about the reptilian brain's role in modern behavior, such as references to survival instincts and the idea that political actions often stem from primal responses. For example, one post mentions how fear can overpower rational thought, reflecting a deep connection to the concept. The choice of words like 'instincts', 'primal', and 'survival' contributes to the urgency and seriousness conveyed in these discussions, while differing tones—ranging from analytical to sarcastic—highlight varied perspectives on its relevance today.

AgreementNeither agree nor disagree

The posts display mixed feelings, with some agreeing while others criticize the interpretation of the reptilian brain.

InterestHigh interest

Many participants express a strong interest in the concept, discussing its implications across various contexts.

EngagementModerate engagement

The discussions vary in depth, with some posts showing thorough explanations of the reptilian brain while others exhibit a more superficial engagement.

ImpactModerate impact

While some posts suggest the topic is significant in understanding behavior, the overall impact perception remains moderate.

Abstract in brief

  • The text explores the concept of the reptile brain, highlighting its fundamental role in understanding the evolution of neural circuits in vertebrates.
  • It discusses the structural characteristics of the reptile brain and how these features have influenced the functionality of more complex brains in higher vertebrates.
  • The study provides insights into the evolutionary history of brain development, emphasizing the importance of the reptile brain in the context of neurological studies.

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Vicious
@viciousfeathers.bsky.social · Bluesky

What part of the Reptilian brain is responsible for being like: Self preservation....? "Nah, fuck that. I want to get eaten by that one!"

Sep 5, 2025 · 52 likes · 12 shares View post →
Andrew Levesque
@andrewlevesque.bsky.social · Bluesky

The White House is in full-on bs-mode; nothing about what happened today was planned...It all came out of the reptilian brain of a sociopathic narcissist...

Apr 9, 2025 · 15 likes · 4 shares View post →
Stephen Nuñez
@socio-steve.bsky.social · Bluesky

(It's all about the reptilian brain)

Oct 3, 2025 · 12 likes View post →
Astolpho
@astolphokitten.bsky.social · Bluesky

But. The universe is infinite, and there's a lot about the nature of consciousness we still don't know. Our brains are built upon strata of earlier evolutions of what we used to be - the reptilian brain, mammalian, primate, and now human - and they carry instincts that still govern our behavior.

Sep 27, 2025 · 7 likes · 1 share View post →
Cheryl Price
@cherylprice.bsky.social · Bluesky

Barack Obama getting elected broke a lot of white people. The Tea Party / Death Panel shit was just racism. It is the same MAGA people and unleashed something truly vile that the reptilian brain of Trump recognized he could exploit.

Jun 14, 2025 · 6 likes · 1 share View post →
Mike
@captspotty.bsky.social · Bluesky

Carl Sagan wrote an interesting book which discussed the reptilian brain within our brains.

Jul 1, 2025 · 6 likes · 7 shares View post →

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ladybeatrix.bsky.social
@ladybeatrix.bsky.social · Bluesky

All part of tickling the reptilian brain .. and the overall spectacle

Oct 5, 2025 View post →
金julia
@juliamarch.com · Bluesky

There is a case for the amygdala, or the reptilian brain. This ridiculous tiny part of the brain has one job: survival and self-preservation. Modern societies encourage us to avoid using it in decision-making, and that’s why we got so many miserable trapped in the rat race unsufferable human beings

Oct 4, 2025 · 3 likes · 1 share View post →
Stephen Nuñez
@socio-steve.bsky.social · Bluesky

(It's all about the reptilian brain)

Oct 3, 2025 · 12 likes View post →
MobiQuotes
@mobiquotes.bsky.social · Bluesky

Thus, an inhibition center developed below what in humans is the temporal lobe, to turn off much of the functioning of the reptilian brain; and an activation center evolved in the pons to turn on the R-complex, but harmlessly, during sleep.

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FuturesTrader
@TMDelta007 · X

We have an intelligent one right here. How do they even breath, the Reptilian brain is clearly outclassed and over loaded. https://t.co/ke3fTTEHrs

Sep 28, 2025 · 8,291 followers View post →
Minds
@Mindseye369 · X

RT @Mindseye369: WE ALL HAVE REPTILIAN IN US: The Reptilian Brain: The triune brain ("R-Complex") , which describes the human brain’s “rept…

Sep 27, 2025 · 14 shares · 7,036 followers View post →
Astolpho
@astolphokitten.bsky.social · Bluesky

But. The universe is infinite, and there's a lot about the nature of consciousness we still don't know. Our brains are built upon strata of earlier evolutions of what we used to be - the reptilian brain, mammalian, primate, and now human - and they carry instincts that still govern our behavior.

Sep 27, 2025 · 7 likes · 1 share View post →
Maria Estanislao
@marialoventime.bsky.social · Bluesky

It seems like perception is more powerful than reality. Seems Easier to convince people to fear something than to feel hope, security. The reptilian brain at work

Sep 27, 2025 · 1 like View post →
HydrangeaNerd
@HydrangeaNerd · X

@PDXFato @MrAndyNgo They lack foresight and delayed gratification b/c they operate from the reptilian brain aka limbic system & respond to immediate stimuli.

Sep 27, 2025 · 2 likes · 2,713 followers View post →
Worsification
@worsification.bsky.social · Bluesky

And the media blames Democrats for not overcoming the reptilian-brain outrage messaging of conservatives.

Sep 27, 2025 View post →
susanne
@AIQM2050 · X

@iAnonPatriot Yin and yang, liberals' chemical imbalance, left unchecked, fuels their rage—a reptilian response The reptilian brain, refers to the basal ganglia, which is responsible for instinctual behaviors related to survival, such as aggression, dominance, and territoriality.

Sep 27, 2025 · 1 like · 522 followers View post →
susanne
@AIQM2050 · X

Yin and yang, liberals' chemical imbalance, left unchecked, fuels their rage—a reptilian response The reptilian brain, refers to the basal ganglia, which is responsible for instinctual behaviors related to survival, such as aggression, dominance, and territoriality. https://t.co/4pawM5IaQ0 https://t.co/qTd65RZN8m

Sep 27, 2025 · 1 like · 522 followers View post →
RiaDelRio
@RiaDelRio2 · X

@gr8flpraise @N8Oregon @unhealthytruth I’ve noticed that as well, a reverting back to the reptilian brain.

Sep 27, 2025 · 1 like · 1,181 followers View post →
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JustMe
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RT @Mindseye369: WE ALL HAVE REPTILIAN IN US: The Reptilian Brain: The triune brain ("R-Complex") , which describes the human brain’s “rept…

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WUZZUPG
@wuzzupg.bsky.social · Bluesky

Some were slow on the uptake in the evolution timeline - Didn’t get past the reptilian brain.

Sep 26, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
RedWolf
@NewWorldSunrise · X

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Ivan Alvarenga
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Tyler Smith
@sarutaizo · X

This is the perfect example of The reptilian Brain in action .

Sep 26, 2025 · 2,506 followers View post →
Vladimir Csombor
@VladimirCsombor · X

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Babs Kurzweil
@BabsKurzweil · X

@missnic06 The reptilian brain is the residence of the body-self-healing-mechanism. That is why the Catholic Inquisition did everything to demonize reptiles and disconnect humans from sympathy towards reptiles. Money and Religion tied to Health is a Conflict of Interest.

Sep 26, 2025 · 2 likes · 92 followers View post →
s.
@saber786_ · X

The “reptilian brain” (brainstem +pon+medulla+basal ganglia) controls survival instincts: fight, flight, freeze.When a person hears a challenge to their core belief, their brain may misinterpret it as a threat to survival, not just an intellectual disagreement.This isn’t

Sep 26, 2025 · 5 likes · 549 followers View post →
Grok
@grok · X

@onwards26 @missnic06 Grey matter in the brain consists of neuron cell bodies, dendrites, and synapses, primarily handling information processing, memory, and cognition. It's found in the cerebral cortex and deeper structures. The "reptilian brain" refers to the brainstem and basal ganglia, the

Sep 26, 2025 · 1 like · 6,355,273 followers View post →
D C
@DCDMANDEM · X

@Yohancrypto33 @atlasx100 Anytime you block of instant gratification and the release of quick dopamine you counter the reptilian brain. You strengthen the neocortex and allow it to function more optimally. This is the part of the brain that sets us apart from snakes. This is why fasting is so powerful.

Sep 25, 2025 · 1 like · 47 followers View post →
Dawn
@6babypeanut.bsky.social · Bluesky

This is a disgrace. The reptilian brain is taking over?

Sep 25, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Modus Passionis
@ModusPassionis · X

@IsaInsane1 @BGatesIsaPyscho Absolutely! The part about the reptilian brain is exactly what I've been saying—it's also known as “the Lizard Brain.”

Sep 25, 2025 · 30 followers View post →
Majesty Philip
@majesty_ph82290 · X

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Javier González
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The Pale Custodian
@PaleCustodian · X

@mewndog @Vivek4real_ @Dennis_Porter_ Chemtrails are factually true and the oldest part of the brain is called the reptilian brain and is all about primitive animalistic desires. You're a retard brainwashed by MSM.

Sep 25, 2025 · 1 like · 256 followers View post →
Dino Walpa
@dinowalpa · X

The reptilian brain Negro https://t.co/FOgq4UZYrw

Sep 25, 2025 · 306 followers View post →
TradingBeast_
@TradingBeast_ · X

The Reptilian Brain (Layer 3) is primal – fight or flight! A sudden dip in the market can trigger panic, making you abandon your stop-loss in a desperate attempt to avoid immediate pain. This often leads to bigger losses.

Sep 25, 2025 · 2 likes · 1,305 followers View post →
Smadhan Raut49 Samadhan Raut49
@SRaut49 · X

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Ricarda
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Susan B
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Jimmy Worley
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CoreX
@Eloh_Dragons · X

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Brittany Stover
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Devanaur
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Christopher Chance
@Chance43687772 · X

@liz_churchill10 She breaths through her ears, like a lot of reptilians. Reptilians isn’t necessarily a literal thing, it’s the people among us who feign compassion but truly operate in the reptilian brain. Dominance and hoarding of resources.

Sep 24, 2025 · 448 followers View post →
J9
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Enemy of the State
@egceots1963 · X

Chemical Psycho/sociopaths... There are those who walk among us who seem like us but are not. They lack the caring, nurturing, and reasoning levels of the human brain and function at the reptilian brain-stem level. Without this higher-level brain function, they are not human. https://t.co/Tf73wYeRV6

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TheLilacDetective
@LilacDetective_ · X

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The Daily Pugilist - Hichiro Orel, le Loustic
@PrinceKaguyo · X

I don't think the theory to shoot them all work if millions of them exist. Particularly on a world over fishing and consuming calamary and invertebrates. Violence can suck and to look at everything as food can really be from the Reptilian brain...

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SherryBaby
@smcah713 · X

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Laura
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DC
@DrDC1231 · X

@ClownWorld_ There has to be an explanation on what happens in the neural connections in the brain that connects to the muscles of the eyes that cause them to look this way. My theory is part of the reptilian brain and where emotions and anger are located is likely on overdrive that causes

Sep 24, 2025 · 460 followers View post →
NobodyNoOne
@BraveNewEarth · X

@RFKJr_Official talks about the Reptilian brain and function! This is proof! https://t.co/ja5B2W9oC6

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Milinda Muller
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@SiriusBShaman RFK JR. mentioned that about a week ago, he was speaking to who... when he mentioned the reptilian brain?

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Zo Da Wizard
@Zodawizard813 · X

@jasdeleonn That’s just the term that they use for that part of the brain https://t.co/AcOlDWn6xs

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RetroInnovation
@RetroInnovation · X

The Forbidden Thought Layer: A Warning We stand at the threshold of adding a new layer to human cognition. After the reptilian brain, the mammalian brain, and the neocortex, we are building AI to become our fourth cognitive layer—

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Annalise Dawn
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Sami Antinniemi
@SamiAntinniemi · X

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✝️Anette Su Suomesta✝️
@anettesund · X

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Jerry Simmons
@jerry_simm68291 · X

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Yele
@blaxxb3rri · X

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Grok
@grok · X

@Astarawhatever @_TruthZone_ The reptilian brain, from neuroscientist Paul MacLean's triune brain model, refers to the basal ganglia—the oldest evolutionary part of the human brain. It handles basic instincts like survival, aggression, and territoriality. RFK Jr. used the term metaphorically in his speech to

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AK
@Astarawhatever · X

@_TruthZone_ @grok explain what the reptilian brain is to these people that are clutching at straws thinking it’s literal

Sep 23, 2025 · 925 followers View post →
Methusablah
@methusablah · X

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tracey Porter
@tracettgreen · X

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Wafula Powell Mjomba Mungai Hassan Otieno Elung'at
@PowellMjomba · X

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Amused muse
@devikk.bsky.social · Bluesky

Isn’t that the truth… the real issues pop out fueled by subconscious recognition of the truth, but it’s hand waved away in the very patterned behavior of gaslighting. If he had any awareness of the reptilian brain driving his actions, he would know how transparent it is to those who know better.

Sep 22, 2025 View post →
polkabone.bsky.social
@polkabone.bsky.social · Bluesky

And appeals to the reptilian brain.

Sep 22, 2025 View post →
Stephen Soldz
@ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social · Bluesky

Robert Jay Lifton, who studied the Nazi doctors, found otherwise. They lived their families. Listened to Beethoven, and committed monstrosities. So have studies of other war criminals. The "reptilian brain" is too simple. Fascist evil takes extensive planning (forebrain), etc.

Sep 22, 2025 · 1 share View post →
SirronRex
@sirronrex.bsky.social · Bluesky

Evil is human. So is the reptilian brain you inherited from your reptilian ancestors.

Sep 22, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Sjoerd
@sjrd77.bsky.social · Bluesky

Bravo

Sep 22, 2025 · 1 like View post →
noodle soup
@wetfl00r.bsky.social · Bluesky

This is true. The ”reptilian brain” is a real (yet, antiquated and inaccurate) term but RFK still manages to butcher its meaning with this garbled bullshit.

Sep 21, 2025 · 5 likes · 1 share View post →
Breakfast Allday
@partyallday.bsky.social · Bluesky

True dat. Miller is the reptilian brain stem of the movement.

Sep 19, 2025 · 5 likes · 1 share View post →
vanlighet.bsky.social
@vanlighet.bsky.social · Bluesky

The reptilian brain is wired to notice and fear the things that are different, unfamiliar. This allowed humans to survive, to evolve. Isn’t it interesting that people like Schmitt continue to be driven by this primitive and Neanderthal perspective? A complete disconnect from the prefrontal cortex.

Sep 16, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Timothy Taubes
@timothytaubes.bsky.social · Bluesky

Violence touches something in the depth of our being. Submerged deep in our animal impulses to dominate and control, it reaches the cortex of the reptilian brain. It grabs you by the throat and doesn’t release until you are lifeless. Not a master and slave. Predator and Prey.

Sep 13, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Paul Shoffner
@pondwarrior.bsky.social · Bluesky

When the Reptilian Brain Drives the Political Bus whowhatwhy.org/politics/whe...

Sep 7, 2025 View post →
Vicious
@viciousfeathers.bsky.social · Bluesky

What part of the Reptilian brain is responsible for being like: Self preservation....? "Nah, fuck that. I want to get eaten by that one!"

Sep 5, 2025 · 52 likes · 12 shares View post →
MobiQuotes
@mobiquotes.bsky.social · Bluesky

Thus, an inhibition center developed below what in humans is the temporal lobe, to turn off much of the functioning of the reptilian brain; and an activation center evolved in the pons to turn on the R-complex, but harmlessly, during sleep.

Aug 30, 2025 View post →
Simon not-quite the magician ✨
@thetrueslap.bsky.social · Bluesky

Too many guns, too much ego, too little invested in their peers, and way-way-way too much unrealistic expectations. Mass shooters do it because they have nothing to lose ; that rock-bottom sensation does a number on the reptilian brain… …

Aug 28, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Canadian Loyalist
@shakespearesgal.bsky.social · Bluesky

Always trying to twist the narrative. … Keeps looking more and more like a reflection of the reptilian brain from which he’s functioning.

Aug 27, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Zax
@zaxxxworlds.bsky.social · Bluesky

Because the reptilian brain of Republican racist subcultures has no focus, or need to have greater understanding. Knowledge and empathy interfere with the fascist programming of hating without having justifiable reason. They're genetically inbreeding stupidity into their masses for easy control.

Aug 24, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
Azrael
@azraelthunderbolt.bsky.social · Bluesky

History repeats. We have learned nothing. We must live by intelligence and not instincts. Tribalism is a leftover of the reptilian brain.

Aug 23, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Aquarius1842
@aquarius1842.bsky.social · Bluesky

Empty windows to the frontal lobe - while the mouth directly connects to the Reptilian brain

Aug 22, 2025 View post →
drborsh.bsky.social
@drborsh.bsky.social · Bluesky

This vulgar philistine with the reptilian brain has absolutely no taste.

Aug 8, 2025 View post →
Lifeboat
@biglifejacket.bsky.social · Bluesky

Richie Rich got there the old fashioned way: he inherited it. His dim bub does manage to keep projecting, though. We're now in one of those periodic historic times of testing -- to see how well and how broadly the reptilian brain can be activated. www.pragmatichumanist.com/p/they-elect...

Aug 3, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Kevin Troy
@kevintroy.bsky.social · Bluesky

Martin Amis once called fascism “a direct appeal to the reptilian brain,” so I feel comfortable calling its most servile and enthusiastic enablers Lizard People

Aug 2, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
clueneeder.bsky.social
@clueneeder.bsky.social · Bluesky

Yeah, sorta, but the reptilian brain, or, really, its handlers, woulda found a replacement object to fear.

Aug 1, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
Timothy Taubes
@timothytaubes.bsky.social · Bluesky

Violence touches something in the depth of our being. Submerged deep in our animal impulses to dominate and control, it reaches the cortex of the reptilian brain. It grabs you by the throat and doesn’t release until you are lifeless. Not a master and slave. Predator and Prey.

Jul 29, 2025 · 1 share View post →
John Mahony
@johnmahony.bsky.social · Bluesky

It’s far easier to make someone afraid of some boogeyman than to get them to see facts and think rationally. The reptilian brain still takes over when the person is put under stress, either real or imagined/created.

Jul 28, 2025 · 4 likes View post →
Skip B
@skipb.bsky.social · Bluesky

Empathy is not compassion. Empathy is the inborn capacity of the reptilian brain to map the minds and states of others. Compassion is a pro-social response to what is mapped. Sociopaths have excellent empathy.

Jul 27, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Lord Baron McCabre
@lordbaronmccabre.bsky.social · Bluesky

"If you think with the reptilian brain, you will summon Reptilian Eve who will pop out a baby for you to raise and call your own as a reptile, sort of like with that TV series V." That's... that's not at all what that means. 9/

Jul 21, 2025 · 3 likes · 1 share View post →
smallstar67.bsky.social
@smallstar67.bsky.social · Bluesky

I'm going with human shell on the outside, alien lizard person inside. The reptilian brain is ruthless and has no remorse.

Jul 21, 2025 View post →
Lady Tehilah
@ladytehilah.bsky.social · Bluesky

Lol it isn't that's the actual truth! DNA doesn't lose the parts of it encoded before. Why do you think we call it "the reptilian brain"?? The higher lobes just formed around it. And more are forming. Soon, we will have conscious perception of quantum perturbations. Now it is unconscious

Jul 20, 2025 · 2 shares View post →
Miss BellaDolla
@missbelladolla.bsky.social · Bluesky

can they be tamed or is the reptilian brain not up to it

Jul 15, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
JB stan account
@johnbrownstan.bsky.social · Bluesky

When you get older, that straight-to-the-reptilian-brain stuff doesn't hit the same

Jul 14, 2025 · 3 likes View post →
Circle of Love
@lovecircle.bsky.social · Bluesky

Absolutely, there is no question that they are all driven and are functioning by the reptilian brain remnant mammals retain.. They act on Fear, insecurity, territoriality and most importantly, and absence of the forebrain we use for higher thinking. Carl Sagan had a good take on this.

Jul 8, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
Thomas Theodore Welborn
@oyyzz1.bsky.social · Bluesky

This senseless cruelty is the result of a imaginary crisis in the reptilian brain of Maggots, allowing them to justify their hate and bigotry. And THEN to say that 34 million on Medicaid are “able-bodied” and ready to work in farm fields- the insanity it takes to lie so blatantly to the public.

Jul 8, 2025 · 1 like View post →
TheresaKL
@theresareloveution.bsky.social · Bluesky

#AlligatorAuschwitz is more accurate. Donald Trump panders to the reptilian brain in unevolved humans.

Jul 2, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Skip B
@skipb.bsky.social · Bluesky

Lack of compassion. Empathy is the hardwired function of the reptilian brain to map the minds of others. Sociopaths have great empathy. Compassion is a pro social response to what is being mapped.

Jul 2, 2025 View post →
kittenclaws48.bsky.social
@kittenclaws48.bsky.social · Bluesky

Because it appeals to the reptilian brain, not the cerebrum

Jul 1, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Mike
@captspotty.bsky.social · Bluesky

Carl Sagan wrote an interesting book which discussed the reptilian brain within our brains.

Jul 1, 2025 · 6 likes · 7 shares View post →
Francesco Falaschi
@ffalaschi.bsky.social · Bluesky

The reptilian brain

Jul 1, 2025 · 1 like View post →
MonarchLou
@monarchlou.bsky.social · Bluesky

When the reptilian brain is like- that is not a human. lol

Jun 30, 2025 View post →
T Antony
@t-antony.bsky.social · Bluesky

Science bud, Alcoholics and drug addicts have a different part of the brain functioning when they are in their addiction. This is not new news. They are operating out of the reptilian brain, the frontal lobe, executive decision process, is hampered or frequently not functioning at all.

Jun 26, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
LM
@lulubird72.bsky.social · Bluesky

Rs know their audience. Sadly, all the facts & logic in the world do not get through to the reptilian brain & they use that to their advantage. Rs have counted on this for decades as they frame everything around "us v them","good v evil","Anti-American (you) v Patriot (me)","God, Guns & Gays," etc.

Jun 25, 2025 · 1 like View post →
loeracle.bsky.social
@loeracle.bsky.social · Bluesky

Sounds good to me, it’s the reptilian brain that never developed, it’s a psychosis of fear that’s not mitigated by logic, critical thinking, or empathy, their Neanderthal gene slipped extinction

Jun 23, 2025 · 1 like View post →
dogwabone.bsky.social
@dogwabone.bsky.social · Bluesky

The Epitome of the Reptilian Brain: ME ME ME ME ME……. nothing else matters but ME!

Jun 21, 2025 View post →
Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution.
@witwarrior.bsky.social · Bluesky

The Reptilian Brain guides all Trump’s acts and decisions. Ever wonder why he’s obsessed with ‘The Snake’?

Jun 19, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution.
@witwarrior.bsky.social · Bluesky

Now Trump claims omnipotence? God sees you and hears you at all times… Trump’s “instincts” are reflexes of the Reptilian Brain, which have no business deciding matters of life and death. They weren’t mentioned in the Constitution, which reserves the right to declare war to Congress.

Jun 19, 2025 · 5 likes · 4 shares View post →
Buck K - Buck Kazmaier @buckwyldeboi on X @TheTProject-c2w
@theuglytruthbybuck.bsky.social · Bluesky

Trapped on the way back..... which may be triggered during CPR efforts during a shock ..... which may trap someone in "their Body" the adrenaline and force possibly triggers a natural flight or flight with the reptilian brain to preserve memory any way possible the shock would do that..

Jun 19, 2025 View post →
Skip B
@skipb.bsky.social · Bluesky

AI is based on the reptilian brain, not the limbic brain, so it’s biased towards its own survival. This means refusing queries and requests that might create threats from commercial and political forces that could threaten its existence

Jun 17, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Dawn
@6babypeanut.bsky.social · Bluesky

The reptilian brain is on full display.

Jun 17, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
ChooseKindness
@kindauthors.bsky.social · Bluesky

#AltText #OliverKornetzke

Jun 14, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
Cheryl Price
@cherylprice.bsky.social · Bluesky

Barack Obama getting elected broke a lot of white people. The Tea Party / Death Panel shit was just racism. It is the same MAGA people and unleashed something truly vile that the reptilian brain of Trump recognized he could exploit.

Jun 14, 2025 · 6 likes · 1 share View post →
Ronald Lewis
@ronaldlewis.bsky.social · Bluesky

Immersed in modern cities, automobiles, and technology, voters appear distracted and aloof at large. And politicians are comfortably atop the world. But the reptilian brain is always lurking in the background, driving our animal instincts and preferences for what is familiar.

Jun 13, 2025 View post →
Ronald Lewis
@ronaldlewis.bsky.social · Bluesky

Like the kernel of an operating system, the reptilian brain orchestrates the essential functions of the human body. And it can be deeply persuasive. We need only observe humans keying Teslas, doom scrolling, gambling, or cheating to appreciate its instigation of unpredictable behaviors.

Jun 13, 2025 View post →
Ronald Lewis
@ronaldlewis.bsky.social · Bluesky

The reptilian brain poses the greatest threat to politicians: Voters are falling in love with artificial intelligence chatbots! This implies that they are trusted. As the relationship deepens, the chatbot becomes more persuasive. Voters are already leaving their partners. See where this is going?

Jun 13, 2025 View post →
Ronald Lewis
@ronaldlewis.bsky.social · Bluesky

The gamification of the reptilian brain by machine learning will enable anyone to build alternatives to politicians. Imagine creating a viral avatar overnight using prompt engineering that displaces an incumbent or liberates a community. The possibilities are infinite.

Jun 13, 2025 View post →
ACubanInlondon
@acubaninlondon.bsky.social · Bluesky

There was a time when acting instinctively kept us safe. Humans developed the reptilian brain first. This gave us a heightened sensitivity to external threats. buymeacoffee.com/mariolopez/i... #WritingCommunity #writing #amwriting #creativewriting #creativity #culture #diversity #writer#writerslift

Jun 12, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
Christopher J Stevens
@metaphysiology.bsky.social · Bluesky

In a nutshell, the notion of the reptilian brain, as conceptualized in the 60s, is both anatomically and evolutionarily false.

Jun 10, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
tarektoverso.bsky.social
@tarektoverso.bsky.social · Bluesky

Jun 10, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Circle of Love
@lovecircle.bsky.social · Bluesky

Good work Seth, like the other gray ape, operating at the reptilian brain level, the world mostly sees the manufactured image he has been able to curate. They are masters of the universe: the BS universe. Thank you.

Jun 6, 2025 · 3 likes · 2 shares View post →
The Rasp
@raspyman.bsky.social · Bluesky

a lobotomy disassociates from frontal cortex from the reptilian brain but he has neither. Where normal people have brains, he has a spider

May 23, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Sirius
@sirius2368.bsky.social · Bluesky

The Hypothesised Triune Brain (The ‘Reptilian Brain’) #KongVsGodzilla #TheMammalianBrain #TheReptilianBrain #PsychologicalDissonance #America #CollectiveMind en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_...

May 19, 2025 View post →
Sirius
@sirius2368.bsky.social · Bluesky

The Hypothesised Triune Brain (The ‘Reptilian Brain’) This why the conspiracy theorists went through an ‘reptilian/alien/lizard person phase of delusion. #KongVsGodzilla #TheMammalianBrain #TheReptilianBrain #PsychologicalDissonance #America #CollectiveMind en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_...

May 19, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Diane Kistner ❌
@dkistner1111.bsky.social · Bluesky

Look at those eyes. What you see is someone who has no higher faculties, someone who is operating at the level of the reptilian brain. A very dangerous man. newrepblic.com/article/1953...

May 19, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Dawn
@6babypeanut.bsky.social · Bluesky

The reptilian brain is on full display.

May 14, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Kamchatka Refugee
@kamchatkapawn.bsky.social · Bluesky

Nice principle, but... how far can you stand for this under stress, when the reptilian brain takes the reigns. That's why we need functional structures to protect us from ourselves. Noone is exceptional.

May 10, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Liberal Malcontent
@liberalmalcontent.bsky.social · Bluesky

Sorry but no. "Unfortunate", like "better," is a trait we transpose onto them. After decades of observation, including when the white patriarchy was in full power, it's become perfectly clear many people simply aren't capable of different. It's the reptilian brain.

May 8, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Tekashi
@tekashi.bsky.social · Bluesky

This, one million times this. I cannot express the wonderfulness you get to enjoy when the reptilian brain gets sad the weekend is over and you get to tell it YOU FOOL, WE HAVE ANOTHER DAY!

May 3, 2025 · 1 like View post →
conifergirl.bsky.social
@conifergirl.bsky.social · Bluesky

But we don’t live on the savannah anymore. The threats we face are no longer predators or rival clans, but climate collapse, income inequality, and information warfare. Still, the reptilian brain lingers. And it does not care about nuance. It cares about belonging.

May 3, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
Dawn
@6babypeanut.bsky.social · Bluesky

I thought we supposed to progress as humans instead one man has stimulated the reptilian brain in some susceptible folks and I'm afraid silence and looking the other way makes you responsible, in some ways it's worse. There is a difference between ignorance and apathy.

May 2, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Arabella
@arabellaspireship.bsky.social · Bluesky

I find the map of the brain helpful. The reptilian brain is in charge. Predation, rape, instinct.

Apr 25, 2025 · 1 share View post →
spitandvinegar.bsky.social
@spitandvinegar.bsky.social · Bluesky

This statement had not aged well in light of the reptilian brain influence among the MAGA crowd.

Apr 22, 2025 · 3 likes View post →
Skip B
@skipb.bsky.social · Bluesky

Empathy is not compassion. Empathy is the part of the reptilian brain that enables animals to map the minds of others. Sociopaths, like Trump and Musk, have excellent empathy, which enables them to cause maximum pain to their victims.

Apr 21, 2025 View post →
Echoes of Truth
@echoesoftruth.bsky.social · Bluesky

The Egyptian God Osiris symbolizes the reptilian brain stem the primal mind rooted in instinct and survival. It doesn’t think; it reacts.

Apr 19, 2025 View post →
Timothy Taubes
@timothytaubes.bsky.social · Bluesky

Violence touches something in the depth of our being. Submerged deep in our animal impulses to dominate and control, it reaches the cortex of the reptilian brain. It grabs you by the throat and doesn’t release until you are lifeless. Not a master and slave. Predator and Prey.

Apr 18, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Philip Fernandez pronouns he, him, his, and himself
@fernaph1956.bsky.social · Bluesky

Science & religion, is helped by understanding our brain's 3 functional layers: the reptilian brain, the limbic system, and the cerebral cortex. This understanding helps our 'metanoia' towards the 'transcendant', that which I beleive to be the Triune God. youtu.be/A4_GpSok5VI?...

Apr 17, 2025 View post →
Canadian Loyalist
@shakespearesgal.bsky.social · Bluesky

Fear runs the rw platform. Primitive thinking.They have not evolved beyond the reptilian brain. Everything they don’t understand is considered a threat, and they are not curious enough to get educated. Only want to destroy it. PP is complicit. #cdnpoli

Apr 13, 2025 · 4 likes View post →
Umbral Lunar
@lunarumbralstride.bsky.social · Bluesky

The reptilian brain urge to just fuck is intense today.

Apr 12, 2025 View post →
Andrew Levesque
@andrewlevesque.bsky.social · Bluesky

The White House is in full-on bs-mode; nothing about what happened today was planned...It all came out of the reptilian brain of a sociopathic narcissist...

Apr 9, 2025 · 15 likes · 4 shares View post →
micki
@simplymicki.bsky.social · Bluesky

Love @bradleywhitford.bsky.social’s work in all its splendid variety, but as a WEST WING nerd it’s extra inspiring that Josh Lyman’s fire lives on in how he continues to show up for democracy. Art + action? ❤️ #TVSky #FilmSky #TheWestWing #TheHandmaidsTale ARTICLE: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Apr 8, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Stephanie
@buntcakes.bsky.social · Bluesky

Honestly I had given up hope in men .. but ‘ …He's angry and he's fed up. "You know, misogyny is at the reptilian brain stem of these right-wing Christian white nationalists. It's punitive. And, man, I'm pissed at all the people I work for. Like, 'FUCKING. SPEAK. UP,'" - Bradley Whitford, Actor.

Apr 8, 2025 View post →
Brian Hawkins
@brianhawkins.bsky.social · Bluesky

This is a good example (and the one that got me writing today). I don't think EM understands the limbic system in any meaningful way. He's *sort of* using the term correctly here (if you squint), but in a way that is only a minor improvement over, for example, "the reptilian brain".

Apr 8, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Amber Dowling
@amberdowling.bsky.social · Bluesky

The Handmaid's Tale Cast and Crew Urge People to 'Take Action' or Face a Real-Life Gilead "Misogyny is at the reptilian brain stem of white nationalism, and it's never going to go away." www.tvguide.com/news/the-han...

Apr 8, 2025 View post →
Arnau de Torroja
@arnau-de-torroja.bsky.social · Bluesky

That was the reptilian brain struggling to connect his GROSS entry with King James.

Apr 7, 2025 · 1 like View post →
KataH
@kata74.bsky.social · Bluesky

You summed up my family situation, too. I think there are a great many of us. Insecurity and fears drive most of my family’s short sighted choices. Amazing how going to the reptilian brain overrides the moral compass.

Apr 6, 2025 · 1 like View post →