Cora the Ancient

This text will look at the cortex of the ancient fossil ape, which is more accurately called the paleocortex. Today, the word "ancient" usually means "extinct." However, historically, the word “paleo” refers to the past, not the dead. Therefore, such bark can only be from extinct monkeys, but not from extinct ones. By the words “cortex of an ancient fossil macaque, paleocortana,” the author probably means the inner layer of the ancient hemisphere of the forebrain of anthropoid apes. But often the term “Cortex”, from this one word, is understood in the broad sense of what is commonly called the cerebral cortex in humans.

From the point of view of the euthanasia problem, it can be considered that the neurons in the brain of this monkey died, but the brain remained functional, since this monkey was probably alive for a couple of weeks. It’s just that from our human point of view, this is already a dead organism, for which it is already too late to provide any medical assistance.

It is assumed that this macaque participated in the creation of the first and oldest civilization in human history. Scientific speculation suggests that this ancient ape shaped our own language system by first communicating through speech. It is important to understand here that speech is a communication system. With its help, our brain told us important actions and information about what needs to be done. When they tried to extract brain structures from us like the ones they had, speech was probably the last thing on their mind.