It’s the lizard part of our brains. This is a really cool thing about learning neural anatomy, that the closer to the spinal cord you get, the further back in time we had an ancestor who started growing it. So the part that keeps us alive, it’s from some late dinosaurs and early mammals.
A lot of emotions come out of fight, flight or freeze, which are the common adaptations to predation. Then there’s the whole weirdness of people used to live in smaller groups, and it was very important for those tribes to communicate with each other. We evolved these brains to migrate across Eurasia, not for anything we’re doing with them now.
But we came out of primal insticts, ones that had to be as strong as breathing.
The key to harnessing emotion is the frontal lobe, the last part of our brains to evolve. I’m going to nerd here for a second but did you know that the major difference between chimp neuroanatomy and humans is connections between the left and right lobe? That blew my mind, it’s still my favorite stupid thing I learned in a psychology degree. Chimps have a smaller frontal lobe as well, but that’s to be expected.
Your frontal lobe does all the higher level work, and it’s the reason meditation actually does something. When you’re upset your brain sends lots of blood flow to the back, pump out those panic chemicals. So the switch is purposefully redirecting bloodflow to the front of your brain.
I still want to see a guy meditating be devoured by a tiger, because that would the the natural outcome.
We have to have emotions though, to be human. It’s the original currency, and on the rare occasions someone appears to have limited emotional range it can be one of the most dangerous symptoms there is.
So that’s what they mean, breadcrumb trail back to our far distant ancestors.
I think it’s because the human brain was developed organically, not as a planned system. Early computers had weird side effects of the ways they did calculations. Once the money really started flowing they found ways to either hide or get rid of them, which I think is a shame for the ways that human brains and computers are similar; The way we got here is the reason for the method.
I might be rambling, I have a sinus infection and don’t really have a firm grip on anything less esoteric than gravestones.
hm interesting. well, i’m into something called “attitudinal psyche.” wonder if you’ve heard of it. it’s a typing system. one of the aspects is emotion. when you take the quiz, it asks you about that aspect and about whether one analyzes their emotions or takes them at face value. honestly, the system is a little weird, because i think it equates all mental states as being equally valid. i feel like the “personalites” are like snapshots? sorry if it’s random, but i have no one to talk to irl about any of this. i’d be interested in knowing your quiz result.
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It’s the lizard part of our brains. This is a really cool thing about learning neural anatomy, that the closer to the spinal cord you get, the further back in time we had an ancestor who started growing it. So the part that keeps us alive, it’s from some late dinosaurs and early mammals.
A lot of emotions come out of fight, flight or freeze, which are the common adaptations to predation. Then there’s the whole weirdness of people used to live in smaller groups, and it was very important for those tribes to communicate with each other. We evolved these brains to migrate across Eurasia, not for anything we’re doing with them now.
But we came out of primal insticts, ones that had to be as strong as breathing.
The key to harnessing emotion is the frontal lobe, the last part of our brains to evolve. I’m going to nerd here for a second but did you know that the major difference between chimp neuroanatomy and humans is connections between the left and right lobe? That blew my mind, it’s still my favorite stupid thing I learned in a psychology degree. Chimps have a smaller frontal lobe as well, but that’s to be expected.
Your frontal lobe does all the higher level work, and it’s the reason meditation actually does something. When you’re upset your brain sends lots of blood flow to the back, pump out those panic chemicals. So the switch is purposefully redirecting bloodflow to the front of your brain.
I still want to see a guy meditating be devoured by a tiger, because that would the the natural outcome.
We have to have emotions though, to be human. It’s the original currency, and on the rare occasions someone appears to have limited emotional range it can be one of the most dangerous symptoms there is.
So that’s what they mean, breadcrumb trail back to our far distant ancestors.
I think it’s because the human brain was developed organically, not as a planned system. Early computers had weird side effects of the ways they did calculations. Once the money really started flowing they found ways to either hide or get rid of them, which I think is a shame for the ways that human brains and computers are similar; The way we got here is the reason for the method.
I might be rambling, I have a sinus infection and don’t really have a firm grip on anything less esoteric than gravestones.
hm interesting. well, i’m into something called “attitudinal psyche.” wonder if you’ve heard of it. it’s a typing system. one of the aspects is emotion. when you take the quiz, it asks you about that aspect and about whether one analyzes their emotions or takes them at face value. honestly, the system is a little weird, because i think it equates all mental states as being equally valid. i feel like the “personalites” are like snapshots? sorry if it’s random, but i have no one to talk to irl about any of this. i’d be interested in knowing your quiz result.
They are there as result of depth.
Situation acting on memory of self produces emotion.
They are there as result of height.
Situation acting on desire of self produces emotion.