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Brain has no modular mental organs

The brain is not organized into discrete object-like parts (an amygdala that 'does' emotion, basal ganglia that 'do' movement, a prefrontal cortex that 'does' rationality); it is better understood as a single dynamically fluctuating network of neurons defined by their relationships and the features they compute, more like shifting weather patterns than batons passed between regions.

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Speaker

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Evidence Quote

we should be standing neurons in terms of their relationships to one another and the features that they compute

Source

247 - Constructing MindsMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:52:39 AM

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