Sublime

We come to know our own minds through our interactions with others. Our mirror neuron perceptions, and the resonance they create, act quickly and often outside of awareness.

The limbic system and the frontoparietal network are two key players on this team. The limbic system, a network of brain structures such as the amygdala and the hippocampus, is the passionate team member, playing a key role in our emotional responses and interacting with other brain areas for complex emotional processing.

In Part I, I address the means to truth, in the sense of the faculties with which we are endowed for this task. I take these to be: attention, perception, judgment, apprehension, emotional and social intelligence, cognitive intelligence and creativity (what I mean by each term will become clearer in the appropriate chapter). In each case I look at

Annual Review of Neuroscience 32 (2009): 289–313. For recent thinking on the amygdala, see: FeldmanHall, Oriel, Paul Glimcher, Augustus L. Baker, NYU PROSPEC Collaboration, and Elizabeth A. Phelps.

affirme qu’il n’existe pas un soi, mais plusieurs. Notre psyché est constituée de plusieurs systèmes concurrents, chacun ayant son propre agenda. Platon propose une structure tripartite : il existe un système rationnel, réflexif, un système spirituel, ou émotionnel, et un système basique d’appétits physiques. On peut comparer cela à ce que le neuro

Thus, what you see of me is as much a function of your own individual peculiarities as it is of my nature. For instance, you have strong analytical tendencies, so you experience a rather analytical Other. Another Explorer with poetic or artistic tendencies would have a very different—though equally valid—experience of me.’

Other scientists also have demonstrated, as Camras and Oster did, that you take tremendous information from the surrounding context. They graft photographs of faces and bodies that don’t belong together, like an angry scowling face attached to a body that’s holding a dirty diaper, and their test subjects nearly always identify the emotion appropria

30-millisecond (ms) exposure to happy, neutral, and angry faces (too fast to consciously register that a face was even seen) will cause you to have measurable facial muscle reactions that correspond to the happy and angry faces