#9 Mapping Psychology to the Brain

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:37:43 -0500

Transcript Philosophy Unveiled 9Welcome to episode 9 of the series Philosophy Unveiled, by the author Lane Friesen. This is Rachel, and I’ll be reading excerpts from Ordered Complexity.We learned in the previous episode that the connections of MBNI [as explained in previous episodes, the name of this well-known psychological theory is trademarked, and thus we have renamed it] all have four-letter names, such as ESTP and INFJ. Our task in this episode is to decipher these names, and to map them onto the brain.Before we start, I’d like to remind you of what we already know from philosophy. Berkeley, Locke and Descartes all appeared to have differing areas of consciousness. Berkeley spoke of a label of pain and pleasure, and Locke mentioned seeing a substratum. When we put the picture together, we discovered the circuit for the right hemisphere of the brain. At that time, we also labeled regions as being Extraverted or Introverted. It was done to prepare us for our present discussion in psychology.Extraverted Thinking, for instance, is located in the right hemisphere. It contains two cognitive strategies, Contributor and Facilitator, and they interact bidirectionally. The same two strategies connect as well in the left hemisphere, where they form Extraverted Sensing. The fact that connections are bidirectional means that we can talk, or we can listen. We can receive instruction, or alternatively we can give instruction. If loops that go through these Extraverted regions, with legs composed of MBNI modes, have differing directions of data flow from Contributor to Facilitator, or from Facilitator to Contributor, then the operation of one loop can block out another. We’ll look at all of this later on.Introverted Thinking contains Perceiver strategy. It means that a Perceiver person such as Locke is conscious in the region of Introverted Thinking, and can tell us about its operation.Introverted Feeling is the home of Mercy analysis. We saw that Berkeley t...

Intro: Philosophy Unveiled

Wed, 21 May 2008 06:15:23 -0400

Brain circuits for Immanuel Kant’s Apprehending, and Apperception; Hume’s Approval; Nietzsche’s Beauty or Martin Buber’s Beten; Character; Classification; Contingency; Martin Heidegger’s Dasein and the basis for Durkheim’s organic solidarity; Discernment; Dissociative Observation or alternate reality; Dream; Heidegger’s Familiarity; Isabel Briggs Myers’ Feeling; Habit; Heidegger’s Intentionality; Heidegger’s Interpretation; Kant’s iNtuition; in which this region here is the intuitive manifold; Kant’s Judging; Durkheim’s Kinship and the basis for his mechanical solidarity; philosophical Knowing; Obligation; Observation; Perceiving; Descartes’s Reason; Reflection; Religion; Isabel Briggs Myers’ Sensing; Max Weber’s Subordinate; and Superior loops; both Kant’s and Isabel Briggs Myers’ Thinking; Kant’s Understanding; Value or Vengeance; Vision; and Weltanschauung or Worldview.

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#9 Mapping Psychology to the Brain

Intro: Philosophy Unveiled