Moderns tend to focus on mechanics and abstractions, leading to a focus on the heart and the head/brain. We denigrate emotions and try to ignore them, but if we attend to them we notice that they primarily arise, or are felt, in the gut.
Ancients, without all the distractions and knowledge we have now, might have been much more attuned to their emotions. They’d likely need to be in order to survive by following intuitions and responding to low-level feelings of fear.
This alone would be reason enough for hepatocentrism.
That reasoning would only be bolstered by knowledge of the liver’s regenerative abilities, its high-desirability to meat-eating predators, its size and weight, its mysterious structural homogeneity (at a macroscopic level), and its visible response (upon inspection) to a life of health or sickness and abuse.
Ancients, without all the distractions and knowledge we have now, might have been much more attuned to their emotions. They’d likely need to be in order to survive by following intuitions and responding to low-level feelings of fear.
This alone would be reason enough for hepatocentrism.
That reasoning would only be bolstered by knowledge of the liver’s regenerative abilities, its high-desirability to meat-eating predators, its size and weight, its mysterious structural homogeneity (at a macroscopic level), and its visible response (upon inspection) to a life of health or sickness and abuse.