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Brain Foundational

Categorizing a Continuum

Paul MacLean, the Triune Brain, and the Necessity of Metaphor “Thus, we’ve got the brain divided into three functional buckets, with the usual advantages and disadvantages of categorizing a continuum. The biggest disadvantage is how simplistic this is. Despite these drawbacks, which MacLean himself emphasized, this model will be a good organizing metaphor for us.”  –Behave, Robert M. […]

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Contemporary Issues

QM, Unenlightened Power Elites & Mindless Oppressed Masses

Quadrune mind is a brain-based model of spiritual consciousness that says the human brain can produce four different kinds of minds, or levels of consciousness. Each mind is identified by our behaviors. The three types of minds we have inherited from our evolutionary past are a behavioral reptilian-like mind, an emotional old mammalian-like mind, and an intellectual new mammalian-like […]