My 3 Greatest Revelations
Joseph LeDoux on writing his new book, "The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human." The post My 3 Greatest Revelations appeared first on Nautilus.
by Joseph LeDoux
Nov 17, 2023
4 minutes
1 The Fundamental Division of the Nervous System Is Not What I and Many Others Thought
For me, book writing is a process of discovery. I find out how much I don’t know about a topic that I thought I knew well enough to write a book.For example, in my latest book, I proposed that everything about being human is subsumed within four fundamental, parallel, entwined realms of existence that reflect our evolutionary past and account for our present ways of being. These are the biological, neurobiological, cognitive, and conscious realms. I knew quite a bit about each of these topics and felt they must fit together in some fundamental way, but I did not fully
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