Sublime

The internal maps created by mirror neurons are automatic—they do not require consciousness or effort. We are hardwired from birth to detect sequences and make maps in our brains of the internal state—the intentional stance—of other people.

Rain Man and A Beautiful Mind, when it comes to autism and schizophrenia. In his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Exactly why we have two brains remains a mystery, but research in split-brain psychology – when the commissure connecting the hemispheres is severed – arrived at a remarkable conclusion: that ‘we’ are literally two people. The person I know as ‘I’, my verbal ego, lives in the left brain. Next door in the right cerebral hemisphere lives a stranger,

Your brain never was an island. It isn’t one now.

Sigmund Freud, faisait de la recherche en neurophysiologie

also read Descartes’ Error, by the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio.22 Damasio had noticed an unusual pattern of symptoms in patients who had suffered brain damage to a specific part of the brain—the ventromedial (i.e., bottom-middle) prefrontal cortex (abbreviated vmPFC; it’s the region just behind and above the bridge of the nose). Their

that we each have four distinctive groups of cells, divided between our two brain hemispheres, that generate four consistent and predictable personalities.