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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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QM as a Model of Human Consciousness

As is true of all models, the quadrune mind model of human consciousness is a simplification of reality. The diversity of people’s mentalities is much more complex than QM’s basic four: reptilian-like, old mammalian-like, new mammalian-like, and human. However, complex variations arise from the interactions of these four fundamental levels of consciousness. Understanding the dynamic […]