Re: Fwd: Researchers Identify Brain's Moral Center

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    > secondary processing is the use of harmonics analysis and is secondary since
    > it assumes meaning exists as set by the primary process. Random 'moments'
    > can allow for secondary processing to be applied to 'noise' and meaning is
    > generated from 'nothing'.
    >
    > I think there is emotion in primary processing but it is single context and
    > EITHER/OR in form, thus the 'correct/incorrect' distinction is felt as
    > Demasio et al found in the left hemisphere of the neocortex; there exists a
    > 'feeling' for syntax processing.
    >
    > When you pass the syntax you move to semantics and this is harmonics
    > analysis of that which has been passed as 'correct'. This is the refinement
    > of value such that that which was passed syntactically is now painted
    > semantically and becomes an object 'in here' that is then used in the
    > parsing process at the primary level; you get a feedback pool, the contents
    > of which now go to filtering 'raw' inputs by attempting to assume/presume
    > and so predict. Problems come when this process takes over and controls
    > rather than acts as a guide.
    >
    > I agree that the secondary processing aids in developing more abstract
    > concepts etc in that it takes you away from 'out there' and more into
    > cultural 'in here' but the idealist emphasis is asserted in the primary
    > processing since primary processing emphasises archetypes more so that
    > secondary that is more typal, secondary mixes, primary seeks purity.
    >
    > Initally the archetypes are rigid, colourless. After secondary processing
    > they can take-on colour and become more flexible.
    >

    has anyone done any imaging of this process by MRIs?

    >
    > best,
    >
    > Chris.
    >
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    > > > > Chris.
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