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...brain differs from the animals' in having a huge neocortex, a thick new bark containing billions of nerve cells. Each half of the cortex is divided into four main lobes: frontal (behind the forehead), temporal (inside the temple), parietal (under the crown), and occipital (at the back of the head). Animals do not speak, write, or think abstractly, and presumably both halves of their brains are equally active. At birth, the human brain is little different from an animal's. A newborn infant who has suffered severe damage to the left side of the brain may have almost...
...jail for using peyote in a religious ceremony in their hogan. A major civil liberties issue of the next decade will be the control and expansion of consciousness. The old values are at stake--academic freedom, freedom of consciousness, the freedom of the nervous system. Who controls your cortex? Who decides on the range and limits of your awareness? If you want to research your own nervous system, expand your consciousness, who is to decide that...
Leary conceives erternal behavior as games, involving roles, rules, rituals, goals, values, and language. External happiness, he says, depends on playing these games successfully. In playing, the mind rules the cortex like a tyrant. (Sunday evening he referred specifically to the mid-brain as the censoring agent.) Internal happiness, however, he considers strictly non-game; it is equivalent to the brain without the mind's control--"physiological freedom...
...Civil Servant. The shape of a United Europe is already evident in the institutions of the Common Market. The cerebral cortex is housed in a new concrete-and-steel nine-story building on Brussel's appropriately named Avenue de la Joyeuse Entrée. Here the European Commission, a nine-man executive, plots the grand strategy and supervises the daily details of the Common Market's operation...
Superstition's Stigma. Although history's epileptics feature such notables as Mohammed and Napoleon Bonaparte, the vast majority have been stigmatized by superstitions that attribute the disease to demons. The actual cause is unknown, but seems to be related to a disturbance in the cerebral cortex. A patch of the cerebral cortex-the brain's command post -gets irritated, and sends out waves of involuntary impulses. On the receiving end, the body muscles respond with spasmodic convulsions-the epileptic seizure. In the average victim, the seizure passes within five minutes. Drugs, among them Dilantin and phenobarbital, eliminate...