Adam had certain duties to perform in the garden. Not picking or eating the fruit of the Tree of knowledge was just a condition of stay.
The second important detail is that after the incident, he tried to hide.
And the third – when asked why he disobeyed God, he answered literally the following: ‘The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.’
The classic method of transferring responsibility first to the surroundings – Eve, and then higher – to God himself. Eve has the same method as her husband: ‘The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.’
That was all the Creator heard. No, not confession or remorse. But a justification of their actions, an attempt to explain…
Every day we hear hundreds of such responses – at work, at home, on TV, everywhere.
This is the only thing we were allowed to take away from Paradise – our ability to be seduced and then make our excuses and shift responsibility.
The story of the Garden of Eden is a story of abdication of responsibility.
The Basic Design of the Brain
How the 'triune’ brain came into being and what actually happens in it.
…unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall
have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be
taken away even that which he hath. ― Matthew 25:29
The brain is a complex structure that supports human life. Its configuration reflects the entire evolution of living beings, as it contains structures that share life support functions closely related to each other.
The conditional division of the human brain into functional levels has long been proposed. For example, according to ancient Jewish sources, the brain contains 1) Rauch, the hypothalamus, which is responsible for the needs of survival; 2) Nefesh, what is called the limbic system, which shapes feelings, emotions and desires; 3) Neshamah, the cerebral cortex, i.e. intelligence, strategy, philosophy and control over the other two levels.
The ancient Jewish description generally coincides with the modern view of the structure of the brain. Today, it is also schematically and functionally divided into the 'reptilian brain’, 'mammalian’, or emotional brain, and the cerebral cortex. All these conditional levels functionally correspond to the purposes mentioned by the ancient Jewish researchers.
The first and most ancient level is the 'reptilian brain’. It appeared 150 million years ago and is responsible for three main functions related to individual survival. The first function is security. Instant solutions that determine the degree of danger using the 'fight-or-flight’ algorithm. This widely used formula for responding to danger does not mention another possible option – to freeze.
The second duty of the 'reptilian brain’ is actions related to the search for food.
And finally, its third function is activities aimed at the continuation of the species, which includes finding and identifying objects suitable for reproduction.
The 'reptilian brain’ is constantly in operation, but a person is not aware of its activity, because the main indicator of the effectiveness of this brain, its KPI (key performance indicator), is speed and reliability, and not awareness. Awareness is as energy-intensive as it is slow and ambiguous. You can get eaten before you even think about it.
Above the 'reptilian brain’ is a structure called the 'mammalian brain’, or emotional brain. These structures appeared about 50 million years ago and help individuals survive in the group.
The emotional brain is the brain of social relations that helps structure a herd, tribe, pride, group, or society. Power and submission are behaviours that are shaped by this particular level. This brain is also involved in procreation activities, but in a specific form: to make an impression – to get an impression.
The 'mammalian brain’ is the centre of striving for superiority, seen as a resource for the exclusivity of the distribution of genetic material. Its structures allow a person to 'understand’ pets and be fascinated by 'communicating’ with them, and this 'understanding’ is, in a certain sense, true. It is this level that is responsible for a person’s experience and attention.
And finally, about two million years ago, the topmost level appeared: the structures responsible for the function called consciousness. If everything is more or less clear with the previous levels, then there are various misconceptions about the work and purpose of this level.
Most people imagine that the functions of consciousness include such important abilities as planning, developing military doctrines and scientific theories, writing novels and poems, writing theses and painting, creating movies and gambling. But all of the above and much more are just related elements, a by-product that arises in the process of its main activity and its main purpose – conscious adaptation to changes in the environment.
Explain and Justify
A reluctant lawyer – why a person is never guilty.
Anyone can be put in prison for ten years without
explaining anything to him, and somewhere in the back
of his mind he will know why. ― Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The most significant and primary function of our consciousness is to adapt our abilities to the model that contributes to survival, or to create a new survival model according to our abilities.
The ability to adapt in today’s world of concrete jungle is significantly different from the features of human adaptation in the wild, where they had only to adapt to food chains, pulling out of them the favourite links that satisfy their growing appetite and already suitable for the developing culinary mastery and needs.
Today, adaptation is no longer a situational mimicry or an evolutionary improvement of organs and physiological processes. Today, adaptation cannot be a passive expectation which follows environmental changes. Today, no matter how strange it may sound, modern requirements for adaptation are already a person’s anticipation of non-existent changes and practical interaction in models of the expected future.
Human consciousness is capable of creating a certain image of reality, modelling this image and admitting into it something that does not actually exist in the real environment. The world around us is represented by hundreds of thousands of interconnected processes. A person can adjust and rearrange these processes in their mind, change their essence and detail, simultaneously build a completely different reality in their perception, and create their own virtual mental maps.
Later on, based on these visual maps, it is safe to build your strategies, calculate plans and only then act. All this is the first and foremost ability of consciousness. But not the only one. There is another, and also an important one.
Nature has rewarded humans with a unique ability to visualise and imagine anything. Thanks to this ability, people can plan the actions of an upcoming hunt or the tactics of a football match, describe to themselves the interior of a house or the
