Let’s not become a nation of physician-robots

KevinMD December 24, 2021
Diana Londoño

My 5-year-old proudly told me during lunch, “Did you know animals don’t cry?” When she told me this, I had to think about it and then immediately Google this. Having small kids teaches you many random facts, including that sharks don’t blink because they don’t have eyelids.

So, when she told me her new fact, I was intrigued.

Animals, unlike humans, do not have a prefrontal cortex.

This is an area of the brain involved in planning, decision-making, and processing emotions. Living beings can have primitive needs such as fear, hunger, and need for sleep, but a key difference is that we have feelings such as disappointment, excitement, tranquility, optimism, or motivation, to name a few.

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