Click Here to Read: Chapter 11 of Minding the Social Brain by Jay Harris.
From Jay Harris, author of the upcoming book, Minding the Social Brain:
I invite you to the final chapter of Minding the Social Brain, a book about how the functional brain externalizes its structure to form human society. The anterior prefrontal cortex contains the full verbal and iconic consciousness we are used to, at the same time that it is the immediate source of our social narrations to one another. You will read here how the limbic system responds to dissonance between our indwelling social domain and the external social world. As Freud surmised, executive ego-functions use limbic anxiety signals to mediate between our animal instincts and the social world. Thus, leaving the anterior prefrontal cortex, we go down the rabbit hole of reverie via our default domain. We time travel the left brain’s motivated agency of words, mixed with the right brain’s imagination. Yet we are like any other animal gathering around the periaqueductal grey watering hole of survival. Consciousness is as much top-down as bottom-up. Jayevansharris@gmail.com
Click Here to Read: Bibliography of Chapter 11.