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--On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:45:40 Joe E. Dees wrote: >From: "Chris Lofting" <ddiamond@ozemail.com.au> >> (snip) >> >> As we see in hippocampus, there is a link of waypoint mapping to territorial >> mapping and this leads to the abstraction of mine/not mine to >> correct/incorrect. Further abstraction takes us into the neocortex and the >> root of syntactic processing which is sourced in that part of the brain best >> associated with object thinking, encapsulated thinking, SELF thinking. >> >This granting of specific semantic specifications (mine/not mine, >correct/incorrect), for all humans, to a particular midbrain (limbic >system) component which is known primarily for its roles in >memory and emotion is a speculation without scientific basis at >the present state of cognitive science. Current speculation upon >the location of Antonio Damasio's "sense of self" includes, but is >not limited to, the midbrain (primarily the reticular activating >system). >> >> The emotion linked to the syntax concept has been located by Demasio et al., >> in the left hemisphere of the brain. Thus there is a fundamental emotion >> linked to the concept of "I". >> >Emotions are generated in the limbic system, which is midbrain. I >own two of Damasio's books (Descartes' Error and The Feeling of >What Happens); please refer me to pagination for this contention. > Ummm, provide me with support for your contention that the limbic system is midbrain (mesencephalon). I'll be a monkey's uncle, but I thought the components of the limbic system were considered part of the forebrain (prosencephalon). Am I mistaken?
I do recall the superior and inferior colliculi of the corpora quadrigemina being part of the midbrain and involved in visual and auditory functions respectively though.
Scott
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