Ah, neuroscience is so cool, isn't it?  I don't study it like I used to.
Maybe when I get to school.....


Matt

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Barber, Kenneth L. wrote:

> i am too dumb to know how to ask questions, but am trying to follow the
> exchange you two are having. i appreciate learning from you two.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bobby G. Greer, Ph. D. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 4:04 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Book Review
>
>
> Kyle,
>
>     Thanks for responding, you're the only on to do so. I will feebly
> attempt
> to elaborate or confuse.
>
>     Our emotions and our primiyive "sense of self" first grow out of somatic
> images.
> Connecting consequences(emotions) with stimuli originate in body sensations
> and reasoning grows from making decisions as the result of emotional
> consequences.
> The most important point here, as per Damasio is that the older conventional
> view of neural development is that the higher cortex evolved from the more
> primitive subcortical areas and thos evolved from the brain stem and
> medulla,
> etc. His contends
> that many people conceive of these higher cortical processes(reasoning) are
> "divorced" from the lower, primitive structures. When,  in fact, this
> circuitry(of these primitive areas) is very much interwoven into cognitive
> decision making in the highest cortical functions. And the most fundamental
> sense of self lies in the somatic landscape of the body.
>
> Hope that el
> In a message dated 9/6/01 5:13:05 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << Bobby, could you flesh out point 3?  I can see the rationale behind the
> others, but I'm not sure what he is "getting at" here?  All thought, logic
> and emotion are dependant on somatic state?  Can this be over-ridden by
> "will"? >>
>