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Evidence for the bipartite brain: the frog brain plus neoortex

Taking a serious look at the blindspot	Taking a serious look at the anatomy
Seeing more than your eye does	The bipartite brain

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• There is an important distinction between actions of the nervous system and actions of the nervous system that produce "internal experience"
• "Internal experience" depends on but need not include any experience of actions of the "frog brain"
• "Internal experience" is a "story"
  • Need not correspond to what is "out there"
  • May be one of many possible resolutions of ambiguous input
  • Reflects distinctive "personal" organization of nervous system as well as inputs/other stories
• Story telling in turn affects behavior, one's own and other people's, and the world outside
  • creativity
  • personal autonomy ("free will")

| Introduction | Science | Brain: Basics | Brain: General Architecture | Brain: Bipartite | Implications | Metacognition | Science as Story Telling On-Line Forum |