Sublime

The middle prefrontal region creates links among the following widely separated and differentiated neural regions: the cortex, limbic areas, and brainstem within the skull, and the internally distributed nervous system of the body proper.

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

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices!”

Studying anomalous neurological disorders would be the subject to which he could devote the rest of his life.

When prefrontal regions are either surgically removed or fall prey to some calamity, patients continue to see, hear, and sense. Deficits affect the higher mental faculties, resulting in apathy, a lack of curiosity about the world, and a disability in planning, introspecting, reasoning, and regulating emotions. Patients perseverate or consistently

Ele descobriu que as pessoas nessas condições tinham um ponto em comum peculiar. Para elas, era quase impossível decidir.

vida é complexa, com várias forças que exercem simultaneamente suas influências sobre nós, e essa complexidade torna difícil descobrir com exatidão como cada uma dessas forças molda nosso comportamento.

Consciousness is a gathering of knowledge sufficient to generate, in the midst of flowing images, automatically, the notion that the images are mine, are happening in my living organism, and that the mind is…well, mine too! The secret of consciousness is gathering knowledge and exhibiting that knowledge as a certificate of identity for the mind.