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Old 12-10-2004, 10:43 PM   #36
Troubleshooter
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Originally Posted by jinx
You lost me here... what do you mean?
The brain can be roughly broken down into three portions:

1) "lizard brain" or the limbic system, it controls our basic needs, the three F's; feeding, fighting and sex

2) "mammalian brain" or the intermediate cortical tissues deal with memory and less simplistic responses to a changing environment

3) "primate brain" or the frontal lobe is what makes us human, advanced (hopefully) reasoning, nuclear weapons and such
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