Martin Monti, “The Limits of Consciousness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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The Three Day Aspect of the Brain
The working hypothesis is that there's a certain circuit in the brain that allows for long range communication to happen very efficienty. This is a circuit that goes from particular areas of our cour through the thalami, which are two nuclei, two sort of nut shaped nuclei, in the very middle of your brain. And n these circuits, from cortex to the phalami to cortex, are what allow very efficient information exchange from different from aras that are very far away from each other. It's kind ofout like a short titis.
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