Way too much information We do not see Reality, we see what we perceive as Reality. Reality has too many details to be recorded registered, computed, analyzed. Only a portion of the world is actually available to us at any given time and it is in fact not what you may think. I am not…
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How the mind came into being
William Calvin in his Brief History of the Mind demonstrated that the brain attained its current size and anatomy long before humans started to use it for higher functions. Only later came the ability to throw with accuracy, to communicate using language, to think in logical terms, create societies, make technology what it is today.

The 3 brains in your head
An organization of the brain The Triune Brain is a theory from the 60s that tried to model the organization of the brain. It is technically inaccurate as an explanation for brain activity as neuroscience understands it but it remains one of the very few good approximations of what is going on in our head.

The Divisions of the Mind
Many scientists, psychologists, philosophers and other folks in quest of understanding the Mind came to put in words the intuitive notion that we all have about our mind, that there are partitions in our head doing different things.