Results for “Brain Topolography”

…insky argued that emotions are “ways to think” evolved to handle different “problem types” that exist in the world. The brain is posited to have rule-based mechanisms (selectors) that turns on emotions to deal with various problems. Overall, both of these works serve better as w...

common way for electrical circuits, computer programs, brain mechanisms and other complicated systems, even cultural or spiritual movements, to behave when one or more important control parameters crosses a threshold. Doyne Farmer of the Los Alamos’s Prediction Company once said...

…ture, and blood sugar, are largely hard-wired and organized at relatively low levels of the nervous system, such as the brainstem and spinal cord. An example comes from autonomic nervous system regulation of cardiovascular function. The sympathetic division of the autonomic nervo...

hyperbolic brain flow is made up of three decomposable

making us killophilic in a variety of situations. Our brain’s unique

we currently lack understanding of how the brain gives rise

wrapping the nerves and the neurons in our brain.

author most recently of The Tell-Tale Brain.

a network of brain areas that releases dopamine in most invertebrates and

but a more important designation defines the two stages in terms of brain waves

overall mind-state” is replaced with ""brain-state"")

the brain circuits that generate this psychology

which are located in the brain and in other organs

recognizing that they harbored significant brain damage and as a result

the human brain was remodeled to allow promiscuous connections between previously