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BRAIN STEM
reasoning – consciousness will – meaning
Emotion – sensory relay bodily impulses
Autonomic functions (breathing, etc.)coordination - arousal
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Stimuli cause neurons to fire.
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Neurons activate in a network, creating a specific experience.
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Links from the experience remain after the experience has completed.
The more the specific experience happens, the stronger the links become, creating a distinct Neural Pattern, and a propensity for the experience to happen again.
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As a new experience starts to happen, it involves one of the neurons in the associated network, and the original Neural Pattern is engaged, recreating the previous experience.
From the work of psychologist Donald Hebb, as discussed in A General Theory of Love, by Thomas Lewis, MD, Fari Amini, MD, and Richard Lannon, MD. Vintage Books, NY 2000.
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