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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.
Daniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
Show me a neuron (or brain) whose generation of a behavior is independent of the sum of its biological past, and for the purposes of this book, you’ve demonstrated free will. The point of the first half of this book is to establish that this can’t be shown.
Robert M. Sapolsky • Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Psychology
Matt Mower • 7 cards
According to Damasio, the mind, at its base, is nothing other than the body’s ongoing experience of perturbations unfolding at the contact surface between itself and the world.Ω
David Abram • Becoming Animal
Above all else, it is the capacity to acquire, store, process, and transmit information that separates life from nonlife.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
the development of integrative structures and processes in the brain (Delmonte, 1995; Siegel, 2012).
Emily J. Wolf • Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy: Accelerating Healing and Transformation
What makes logical sense for action in the outside world does not necessarily make psychological sense in the world of thoughts and feelings.