Neurobiology and society

Abstract

Neurobiology is, like all science, a product of man's innate curiosity to know, to penetrate knowledge of his surroundings and also of himself. Man carefully observes the evolutionary biological facts and sees that among other properties of living beings are that of being irritated by certain agents and that of conducting the stimuli produced in order to provide a response to them. This succession of events, irritation-conduction, although it is essentially the same for a unicellular being as for the human being himself, although it is evident that in man these sensory, integrative and response processes are infinitely more complex and, to a great extent, conditioned by stimuli or previous experiences, received or received from the natural and social environment and, in turn, the final response may affect that environment in one way or another, conditioning changes that feed back the sensitivity of the issuer of the response. Hence, given that man's influence on his environment is the most significant from a biosocial point of view, there is little doubt that the human nervous system is the highest expression of biological organization in the animal world and, therefore , the most transcendent instrument of change.