

The motor system simply figures out how to drive the available machinery.” Whether fingers, flappers, or fins whether two legs, four legs, or eight whether hands or talons or wings- the fundamental principles of brain operation don’t need to be redesigned each time.

“Mother Nature has the freedom to experiment with outlandish plug-and-play motor devices.Like a tree that needs nutrient-rich soil to arborize, a brain requires the rich soil of social and sensory interaction.”ĭriving the available machinery & designing new devices/input channels: Without it, the brain becomes malformed and pathological. “Mother Nature’s strategy of unpacking a brain relies on proper world experience.

“A trick that Mother Nature discovered: don’t entirely pre-script the brain instead, just set it up with the basic building blocks and get it into the world.”
