Sublime

de plus en plus d’éléments viennent confirmer la thèse de Socrate. Les neurosciences démontrent que, quand nous changeons de jugement sur une situation, nos émotions changent. Les neuroscientifiques appellent cela la réévaluation cognitive, concept dont ils font remonter l’origine à la philosophie antique.

expands our understanding of the mind beyond the limits of the brain’s biological processes,

Human beings have evolved two distinct systems for processing information. The first, the explicit system, is rule-based, can be expressed verbally, and is tied to conscious awareness. When the prefrontal cortex is fired up, the explicit system is usually turned on. But when the cold calculus of logic is swapped out for the gut sense of intuition,

je restais lucide en dépit des troubles mentaux qui me handicapaient. Notre conscience résulte du fonctionnement simultané d'un certain nombre de « programmes »

distinctly human about our lives seems to depend upon our viewing one another as autonomous persons,

comecei a me perguntar por que gostava de uma garota e não de outra,

Refletir é difícil e às vezes desagradável.

or, better, a collection of perceptions—a tightly woven bundle of neurally encoded predictions geared toward keeping your body alive.