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Poor impulse control is a hallmark characteristic of the majority of criminals in the prison system.
The main difference between teenage and adult brains is the development of the frontal lobes.
vision is a construction of the brain, and its only job is to generate a useful narrative at our scales of interactions
consciousness seems to be about setting goals for what should be burned into the circuitry, and it does little beyond that.
peripheral nervous system employs one hundred million neurons to control the activities in your gut (this is called the enteric nervous system).
emergence.27 When you put together large numbers of pieces and parts, the whole can become something greater than the sum.
A meaningful theory of human biology cannot be reduced to chemistry and physics, but instead must be understood in its own vocabulary of evolution, competition, reward, desire, reputation, avarice, friendship, trust, hunger, and so on
The brain is tied in constant two-way communication with the endocrine and immune systems, which can be thought of as the “greater nervous system.”
If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn’t be smart enough to understand them.
