Sublime

These observations refute the myth that consciousness simply arises from neurons doing their thing. Here are billions of cerebellar cells doing what comes naturally to them, firing action potentials and releasing little squirts of neurotransmitter, yet without any feelings. What matters is not the constitution of brain tissue but the way it is wire

To take it a step further, the implication is that without thought, the self does not, in fact, exist.

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Un réassemblage permanent des idées : l’hyperlatence La troisième caractéristique est le surinvestissement d’un processus principalement inconscient et dont seul le résultat est parfois visible de l’extérieur. Ici, le cerveau réassemble les dernières expériences vécues et les compare avec des expériences antérieures de même ordre pour se créer un m

Consider what this means: events in the world, such as a snake slithering at your feet, merely tune your predictions, roughly the way that your breathing is tuned by exercise. Right now, as you read these words and understand what they mean, each word barely perturbs your massive intrinsic activity, like a small stone skipping on a rolling ocean wa

Generally speaking, the brain is divided into two “hemispheres”—right and left. The left hemisphere is typically associated with analytic and reasoned thoughts. Often it’s the part of the brain that guides conscious awareness. The other parts of the brain, including the right hemisphere, support emotional responses and what we refer to as the uncon

two possibilities. One calls for actual neural projections from the “affect complex” to the “posterior sensory set” and vice versa. The other possibility calls for approximate simultaneity of activations in the two sets, resulting in the production of a time-based ensemble. In either option, the ultimate realization of a conscious mind depends on b