Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.
Peter WattsTags: brain
But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.
Peter WattsTags: brain
It's a mind, it works by metaphor.
Simon J. TownleyTags: mind psychology human-condition metaphor brain
Tutti dicono che il cervello sia l'organo più complesso del corpo umano, da medico potrei anche acconsentire. Ma come donna vi assicuro che non vi è niente di più complesso del cuore, ancora oggi non si conoscono i suoi meccanismi. Nei ragionamenti del cervello c'è logica, nei ragionamenti del cuore ci sono le emozioni.
Rita Levi-MontalciniTags: love heart brain amore cuore
without the power to concentrate that
is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence.
A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.
("Three O'Clock")
Tags: simplicity brain concussion
The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school.
Paul ToughThe brain has only three functions: open, closed, or deprived.
Anthony LiccioneTags: brain open-minded lacking inadequate deprived closed-minded unbeneficial
In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.
István AranyosiTags: pain philosophy self brain neuroscience phenomenology nervous-system sensory
The inability to get something out of your head is a signal that shouts, “Don’t forget to deal with this!” As long as you experience fear or pain with a memory or flashback, there is a lie attached that needs to be confronted. In each healing step, there is a truth to be gathered and a lie to discard.
Christina EnevoldsenTags: fear truth pain lies mind lie brain healing sign trauma head ptsd post-traumatic-stress-disorder negative-thoughts flashback traumatic signal full-of-thoughts
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