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Valar Rereadis: The Sworn Sword - Part 3

History of Westeros (Game of Thrones)

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The Evolution of the Lizard Brain

If we started from scratch with all the knowledge that we have, we wouldn't build the brain we have now. Over time it has had to deal with different things along the way and your DNA and the core of your brain get built on top of what's already there. And so in the core, the lizard brain is just this drive for food and sex part of the drive for food is violent. So like to run, to escape or to attack, it's in us. It's no matter how much of a library of past generations we have to inform ourselves,. No matter how enlightened or moral we are more advanced brain can decide to be, we still get hungry. We still want

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