Sublime

ability to think, reason, or learn.

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

‘Indeed,’ he confirmed. ‘But notice that layered cognitive activity is not limited to the performance of tasks. It applies also to how you feel about life and self.’

Our prefrontal cortexes allow us to think about our own minds. Our brains think about themselves. Psychologists call it metacognition.

Buddhi, intelligence, is the aspect of citta that produces, among other things, the functions of thought connected to judgment, discrimination, knowledge, ascertainment, and

cognition as an effective action, an action that will enable a living being to continue its existence in a definitive environment as it brings forth its world.

Emotion