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| Title: | Tyranny of the Prefrontal Cortex - http://jeremylent.wordpress.com/ |
| Description: | A blog that explores how the prefrontal cortex has come to dominate human consciousness. It performs a “cognitive archaeology” of human thought, from our hunter/gatherer origins through agriculture, monotheism and more. |
| Category: | Home ~ Science |
| Link Owner: | Jeremy Lent |
| Date Added: | January 01, 2010 12:24:44 AM |
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The Rise of Dualism A False Choice: Reductionism or Dualism Infinition: Our Acceleration to the Infinite Science and Absolutism: The Worship of Truth |
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Tyranny of the Prefrontal Cortex
How the prefrontal cortex has come to dominate human consciousness Towards a Science of Consciousness I’m pleased to tell you that I’ve been invited to present at the biennial conference Towards a Science of Consciousness to be held in Tucson, Arizona on April 9-14, 2012. Here’s how the conference ... ?Ensnared in an inescapable web? This blog describes how our current state of consciousness may be viewed as a “tyranny of the prefrontal cortex.“ Sounds a little extreme, perhaps? Well, hopefully browsing the pages of this blog... External symbolic storage My last post described what I call the “external pfc” – the accumulation of symbolic networks of meaning that literally sculpt the growing brain of every infant born into a particular culture. Thi... The External Pfc This blog describes how our consciousness is under excessive control from our prefrontal cortex (pfc). But it’s not just our own pfc that controls our consciousness. Far more powerful is the cont... The patterning instinct The human prefrontal cortex (pfc) instills in us a patterning instinct that shapes patterns of meaning to make sense of our world. This section from my book Finding the Li: Towards a Democracy of ... |