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Brain's primary job is body regulation

The brain's most important job is not thinking, seeing, or feeling but regulating the internal systems of the body (heart, lungs, immune, endocrine); thinking, deciding, seeing, and feeling are all performed in the service of bodily regulation.

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Speaker

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Evidence Quote

when your brain thinks and decides and sees and hears and feels it's doing this in the service of the regulation of your body and that turns out to be a really important insight

Source

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

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