Matija’s Reviews > Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst > Status Update

"Maybe inventing deities is an emergent by-product of the architecture of our social brains."

"Synapses utilizing glutamate occur throughout the nervous system, and LTP isn't exclusive to the hippocampus. This was a traumatic discovery for many LTP/hippocampus researchers - after all, LTP is what occurred in Schopenhauer's hippocampus when he read Hegel, not what the spinal cord does to make you more coordinated at twerking."