Unregenerate Humanity -edit2

[dukealien]

Unregenerate Humanity


We learn that unlike rats’ or crows’
our adult neurons never split
to generate new cells:  mind grows
by forming fresh connections.  It
relies not on mouse-cleverness
to learn a maze, imprinting on
rejuvenant forgetfulness,
but rules cemented from its dawn
of consciousness to solve each maze
and then to build them.

               Minds are thus
conservative, each rodent craze
for novelty a heedless fuss.
In time, our aging neurons die–
more human, that, than multiply.

edit1;

We learn that unlike rats’ or crows’
our adult neurons never split
to generate new cells:  mind grows
by forming new connections.  It
relies not on rat-cleverness
to learn a maze, imprinting on
erupting all-forgetfulness,
but rules cemented from its dawn
of consciousness to solve each maze
and then to build them.  Minds are thus
conservative, each rat-like craze
for novelty a heedless fuss.
In time, our aging neurons die–
more human, that, than multiply.

original version;

We learn that unlike rats’ or crows’
our adult neurons never split
to generate new cells:  mind grows
by forming new connections.  It
relies not on rat-cleverness
to learn a maze - imprinting on
erupting all-forgetfulness -
but rules cemented from its dawn
of consciousness to solve each maze
and then to build them.  Mind is thus
conservative, each rat-like craze
for novelty a heedless fuss.
Eventually neurons die–
more human, that, than multiply.

Not sure what you'd call this - a curtailed sonnet, perhaps?