A poster on a wall in Ely invoking Civic disobedience. Our religious mandate to civic disobedience and what that might mean in practical terms. Why do human beings have such big brains? Look at those starlings swooping and wheeling in their murmuration; these birds have tiny brains which are mostly eye, yet they can do everything necessary to find food, choose a mate, build a nest and rear young so perpetuating their species. Our large brains comprise some 86 billion neurons which form 100 trillion connections to each other. It seems probable that we need them to understand and negotiate the complexities of our human social life, including developing language skills more complex than any other species. It takes about 20 years for an individual human to learn about and manage their social life. Our social lives have an objective of maximising the utility of mutual help to be found in communities of human beings whilst avoiding the negative effect of antagonisms, by ma...