Sublime

brainstem represented in your palm. Place your thumb back down and you’ll see the approximate location of the limbic area (ideally we’d have two thumbs, left and right, to make this a symmetric model). Now curl your fingers back over the top, and your cortex is in place. These three regions—the brainstem, the limbic area, and the cortex—comprise

is involved in thinking, decision-making, and controlling your movement.

The mind and the brain are not the same thing. One is in the head, and the other is spread everywhere.

The sensations are then passed on in two directions—down to the amygdala, two small almond-shaped structures that lie deeper in the limbic, unconscious brain, and up to the frontal lobes, where they reach our conscious awareness.