Don't suffer from questioning about what
it is we are actually doing on this earth and how things just 'happen'. Think of this curiosity as a
beautiful thing. There are so many pieces to this puzzle that you can find along the
way. The bigger picture can be intimidating sometimes. But you can't look at the disassembled puzzle and give up or feel shit because not everything is in the place from the start. You have the time. You can solve these things step
by step, truly experiencing every realization that life has to offer. And I feel that what you could find out while solving these things is that there is something more than the mere satisfaction of completion beyond
that finish line. Maybe you'll see that there is no such thing as a finish line, there's no such thing as everything being ‘over’. Everything might just be transformed and strangely connected. Don’t attach yourself so much
to what you do or do not have. Let it flow. Embrace that flow despite emotional conflict.
The limbic system has been commonly referred to in scientific literature as the emotional brain. But we know now with more information and advanced technologies that the limbic system is an ambiguous concept, it is what LeDoux says is just a “useful anatomical shorthand”. One evidence that challenges this theory is that areas that are considered unique to mammals (therefore termed the “mammalian brain”) is also present in ‘primitive’ creatures such as reptiles and amphibians. For example, a study conducted by Gilles Laurent and colleagues in 2018 using single cell RNA-sequencing technology showed that the neurons of the pallium of reptiles had similar genetic makeup to that of the hippocampus and amygdala of mouse and humans! These areas are what MacLean included in the limbic system theory, yet they are present in these ‘lower’ animals. Moreover, the same study showed that the anterior dorsal cortex of the pallium in reptiles was similar to the human neocortex, which is a layer ...
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