Sublime

6 The emotional brain is at the heart of the central nervous system, and its key task is to look out for your welfare.

On the sensory side, a wide variety of input patterns can activate a stable cell assembly that represents some abstract pattern (your friend’s face, your sunglasses). On the motor side, a stable cell assembly representing some abstract motor command (catching a ball, signing your name) is able to express itself using a wide variety of muscle groups

Shelley H. Carson, author of Your Creative Brain,

What we call fluid intelligence—the ability to reason and solve new problems—makes massive use of the brain’s executive control system: both mobilize a similar network of brain areas, notably the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

Creating a useful, accurate picture of something complex and abstract is very difficult. And there is nothing more complex and abstract than the human mind.

The occipital lobe is at the back of the brain. Its main role involves vision.

Porte d’entrée du cœur émotionnel cérébral, l’amygdale opère une surveillance émotionnelle du monde où vous évoluez, évalue le contenu émotionnel de ce que vous voyez, et distingue enfin ce qui est trivial de ce qui mérite une réponse émotionnelle appropriée.

An image enters your pupil, gets inverted by your lens, hits your retina, and creates a spatial pattern. This pattern gets relayed to your brain. People tend to think that there’s a little upside-down picture of the world going into your visual areas, but that’s not how it works. There is no picture. It’s not an image anymore. Fundamentally, it is