Sublime

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Take a look at people walking down the street, driving in their cars, eating alone in restaurants and cafes. Not so long ago, these people wouldn’t be doing anything else. Their minds would wander and they would daydream; their DMN would be active, and, although they were totally unaware of it, they would be tagging recent memories for processing l

Two brain systems are relevant for the mental processing of trauma: those dealing with emotional intensity and context.

How can we make sense of these gradations of moral responsibility when brains and their background influences are in every case, and to exactly the same degree, the real cause of a woman’s death?

In “Funes, the Memorious,”

The brain sorts through an abundance of information and decides what salient information to include in its stream of consciousness.

For the most part, our brains are equal to our environment, a record of our personal past, a reflection of the life we’ve lived.

Your brain is built like a dam that recognizes acute crisis and holds it all together so that you can do what is needed in the moment. Then once the acute threat has passed and you feel psychologically safe, the dam breaks, you let your guard down, and your true emotions come to the surface. It’s a deluge.

For all of us, unprocessed memories are generally the basis of negative responses, attitudes and behaviors. Processed memories, on the other hand, are the basis of adaptive positive responses, attitudes and behaviors.