That was a thoughtful, interesting article. From the link: "Like most arthropods, they date from the Jurassic period, biologically so much older than mammalia that they might as well be from another planet." (then later...) “The nervous system of a lobster is very simple, and is in fact most similar to the nervous system of the grasshopper. It is decentralized with no brain. There is no cerebral cortex, which in humans is the area of the brain that gives the experience of pain.”
Which makes it all the more remarkable that we share some basic elements. As Jordan Peterson recently explained in his book (12 rules) and the now-famous BBC Channel 4 interview, lobsters have been around for an exceedingly long time -- before there were trees! And we share a number of hormonal pathways with this lowly, delicious creature.
The same hormonal triggers that lead an Alpha-lobster to walk with pride and swagger and respect among his carapace-suited peers are involved in our own human sense of accomplishment leading to machismo. How incredible that durable, robust mechanisms replicate in nature and result in enormously complex systems (such as social networks),built on this foundation!
Which makes it all the more remarkable that we share some basic elements. As Jordan Peterson recently explained in his book (12 rules) and the now-famous BBC Channel 4 interview, lobsters have been around for an exceedingly long time -- before there were trees! And we share a number of hormonal pathways with this lowly, delicious creature.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lobster+dopamine
The same hormonal triggers that lead an Alpha-lobster to walk with pride and swagger and respect among his carapace-suited peers are involved in our own human sense of accomplishment leading to machismo. How incredible that durable, robust mechanisms replicate in nature and result in enormously complex systems (such as social networks),built on this foundation!