Neuroethology
Neuroethology is the evolutionary and comparative approach to the study of animal behavior and its underlying mechanistic control by the nervous system. This interdisciplinary branch of behavioral neuroscience endeavors to understand how the central nervous system translates biologically relevant stimuli into natural behavior. For example, many bats are capable of echolocation which is used for prey capture and navigation. The auditory system of bats is often cited as an example for how acoustic properties of sounds can be converted into a sensory map of behaviorally relevant features of sounds. Neuroethologists hope to uncover general principles of the nervous system from the study of animals with exaggerated or specialized behaviors.
As its name implies, neuroethology is a multidisciplinary field composed of neurobiology (the study of the nervous system) and ethology (the study of behavior in natural conditions). A central theme of the field of neuroethology, delineating it from other branches of neuroscience, is this focus on natural behavior. Natural behaviors may be thought of as those behaviors generated through means of natural selection (i.e. finding mates, navigation, locomotion, predator avoidance) rather than behaviors in disease states, or behavioral tasks that are particular to the laboratory.
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Neurotheology
by: Screaming Monkey BonerHard wired heads plugged into a higher power
Unified deity flowing from the poppy flower
Fuels of creation of answers to the desperate
Questions raised since the dawn of man
Who are we and why are we here?
Traveling in circles never getting any nearer
Our thoughts erased by Psilocyben
Lost in a world of hallucination
How...hear the ape man screaming
Now....give me the answers to
How....hear the ape man screaming
Now....give me the answers to
Who came first the leader or the follower
The meaning of life has never seemed hollower
We built our beliefs to cleanse our impurities
We built our beliefs to mask our insecurities
The flaw in the system is that
We hold in reverence what we can not see
Our thoughts erased by Psilocyben
Lost in a world of hallucination
How...hear the ape man screaming
Now....give me the answers to
How....hear the ape man screaming
Now....give me the answers to
Why are we slaves to our own
Sense of well-being?
Everyday I wake up still alive on this miserable fucking planet and ask myself the same set of questions over and over again...what is it that I am still doing here amongst all these fucking finite state....machines
How...hear the ape man screaming
Now....give me the answers to
How....hear the ape man screaming
Now....give me the answers to
Why are we slaves to our own