Single Idea 4920

[catalogued under 17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 2. Reduction of Mind]

Full Idea

The nuts and bolts of thinking - holding ideas in mind and manipulating them - takes place on the upper side of the prefrontal cortex.

Clarification

The 'prefrontal cortex' is at the top of the head, near the front

Gist of Idea

Thinking takes place on the upper side of the prefrontal cortex

Source

Rita Carter (Mapping the Mind [1998], p.312)

Book Reference

Carter,Rita: 'Mapping the Mind' [Phoenix 2000], p.312


A Reaction

Keep this firmly in view! Imagine that the skull is transparent, and brain activity moves in waves of colour. Dualism would, in those circumstances, never have even occurred to anyone.