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Emotion is from preparatory brain chaos; irrational action is from premature closure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2005

Walter J. Freeman*
Affiliation:
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, LSA 142, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA94720-3200http://sulcus.berkeley.edu

Abstract:

EEG evidence supports the view that each cerebral hemisphere maintains a scale-free network that generates and maintains a global state of chaos. By its own evolution, and under environmental impacts, this hemispheric chaos can rise to heights that may either escape containment and engender incontinent action or be constrained by predictive control and yield creative action of great power and beauty.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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