Does anyone understand how the 3 brains work together, context being conscious/aware determinism.?

Question

Definitions being what they are it makes this issue a tricky one at best.
Three brains, reptilian instinct, simian emotion and human thought consciousness is the human legacy.

Does the sum of the three optimised brains
constitute a human mind?

What happens when the three are out of kilter?
etc etc

Any one have any thoughts on these sorts of issues?

Answer 1

My first thought for you is that I am glad you are wary of definitions. It is easy to pigeon-hole people, but impossible to do so accurately, we are too diverse and too complex and each of us is unique.

That said, the paradigm I prefer to work with is that we all have emotions and thoughts. We also have two other energies, feeling (physical sensation) and discernment. When presented with a change (any change from small and non-threatening like a friend coming back from the loo into the room to large and threatening like a tornado blowing the roof off), emotional energy asks "what?" What do I do? Physical energy asks when? and where? Thinking energy asks how? Its worst fear is having to make a choice before it understands how. Discernment asks why? Its worst fear is being misunderstood.

What happens when they are out of kilter (which they are in most people most of the time, because each person relies particularly heavily on one of the four) is that we are unhappy. And we run into conflicts with people of different energy imbalance. For example, a child asking why? why? drives his parents nuts and gets the reply "shut up!" S/he whines or sulks. When I was 12 and on a school exchange, I asked why? so often that I was thrown out of France. My French hosts got fed up with why? why? why? all the time, they weren't used to it in their family. Similarly, my wife, whose primary energy is emotion, is at her most unhappiest when she experiences (as of course happens from time to time in the natural course of life) "I don't know what to do". E-motion wants to act. (And I think instinct manifests in humans through emotion. When we for example jump at a loud sudden noise, there is an emotion of fear.) A person strongest on thinking energy suffers frustration and anger when put under pressure, you hear them complain after an ordeal "I didn't have time to think".

Answer 2

The collective unconscious is an accepted fact of billions of people in the East. People are consciously unaware of what goes on in their unconscious mind which does have complete control for about seven hours each night and does make decisions in the symbolic language and context of dreams and has much power over motivation and emotion. If the unconscious mind is out of kilter or depressed because of a collective decision that is not to its own advantage, that would be a normal response to warn the person that there is a higher priority of its needs to be dealt with.

Answer 3

I can honestly say I have never considered that question before....;