Your Lizard Brain Triune And How It Shapes Driverless Car Software Design

Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Insider

When I was a youngster, some of my playmates would hurl a verbal insult at one other by saying that the person was a lizard brain.

I don’t believe that the same taunt of being referred to as a lizard brain is used much anymore and it has ultimately gone by the wayside as a toss-able insult for kids.

Background About Our Triune Brain

There was a kind of scientific revival of referring to a lizard or reptilian brain in the 1990’s when a book by Paul MacLean came out, known today as a now-classic entitled “The Triune Brain in Evolution.”

The triune brain theory postulates that the human brain physically evolved over time and consists of three separate parts. Presumably, evolution of the brain over time coincides with the rise of humanity and the bolstering of our thinking processes.

The three parts are united in that they ultimately work together in various fashions to undertake human thinking. Though there is a united aspect, they are nonetheless considered distinctive in their own right each.

This notion of having three separable and distinct functions might be likened to certain aspects of a car. If I had a car engine in front of us, I might…