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As many neuroscientists have affirmed, this evolution has led to the higher mammalian brain being composed of three parts. The oldest is the reptilian part of the brain, which controls all automatic responses that regulate the body. This is the instinctive part. Above that is the old mammalian or limbic brain, governing feeling and emotion. And on
... See moreRobert Greene • The Laws of Human Nature
Common to many transformative experiences is the dissolution of the self, including loss of ego and the body it is chained to.
Christof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
I am suggesting that the brain has all kinds of local consciousness systems, a constellation of them, which are enabling consciousness. Although the feelings of consciousness appear to be unified to you, they are given form by these vastly separate systems. Whichever notion you happened to be conscious of at a particular moment is the one that
... See moreMichael Gazzaniga • Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
Creating a useful, accurate picture of something complex and abstract is very difficult. And there is nothing more complex and abstract than the human mind.
Frank Tallis • Mortal Secrets
As a cognitive scientist, I think this is a doomed strategy; overwhelming evidence says mind and consciousness are emergent from your brain and dependent on it.
John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, • Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
The Mind
Brittany • 12 cards
Chapter 18, The Dog Beneath the Skin from The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
Neuroscience
Matthew Sparks • 4 cards
two possibilities. One calls for actual neural projections from the “affect complex” to the “posterior sensory set” and vice versa. The other possibility calls for approximate simultaneity of activations in the two sets, resulting in the production of a time-based ensemble. In either option, the ultimate realization of a conscious mind depends on
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