Shalom shalom !!
If you did not read the text about evolution written by Anne Dambricourt, it said that, contrary to Darwin's mythological supposition, evolution in the organic world is not the result of adaptation to external circumstances but is due to internal factors that can be separated in two phases. First, there is a long term apparent standstill until organisms reach a threshold when, secondly appears a qualitative transformation that can be qualified as a jump into a new form of life.
In the material world, there are similar thresholds where matter changes but here, the process is not internal but subjected to external forces, to energy applied to structures. For example, the threshold for water to become vapor needs heating until the temperature reaches 100° Celsius, or cooling until 0° Celsius to become solid ice.
Man as an organic creature is bound to the first biological process but akin to the material world, one can apply forces to change one's perception of the world and of oneself. Drugs are the obvious example but there are many many ways to change the vision we have of reality, some internal as the said drugs but others externals and as simple as travelling, encounting new situations, meeting new people. Changes in one's mind as the result of both experiences do not bring jumps at first glance because the revelations that occur must fall in line with a personal process of maturation. Short of that, the sparks will fall on the ground and vanish.
That is exactly what happened to Eve when she ate the apple. As a woman, she was curious of the unknown and more importantly, she was concerned that there may be things that she didn't know about which she could not have her children made aware of. Her motivation to eat the apple was that she wanted to become wise, as the translation says, or better said, educated. She probably thought about the apple for a long time and the event of the snake was just the trigger that decided her to cross the Rubicon.
Alas ! The only thing she got from that experience was that she was in a state of primitiveness, of innocence and instead of becoming learned and experienced, she became more vulnerable than a newborn. She experienced in the first place what Socrates used to say that the first step of knowledge is to know that you don't know.
The conclusion of that might be that changing one's brain cannot be helpful unless it matches a long personal evolutionary research, conscious and straight.
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