Because our cognition emerges from big
areas of the brain interacting and sharing communication.
Not exact matches
We have seen that Cobb found it necessary to reject Whitehead's view in favor
of a theory
of regional inclusion if mind events are to
interact with broad
areas of the
brain.
Theta wave activity starts in the back
of the
brain, in it's fear center — the amygdala — and then
interacts with
brain's memory center — the hippocampus — before traveling to the frontal lobe where thought processing
areas are engaged.
It's also the moving chemical,
interacting with the
areas of the
brain responsible for conscious movement.
Specific
areas of interest include how the microbiome and the immune system develop and
interact with the
brain.
These cases and others — from the commonly known (Alzheimer's disease) to the highly unusual (Ecstatic epilepsy, in which seizures convey a feeling
of transcendent joy) to the almost supernatural (the Doppelganger effect, where people see and
interact with a duplicate
of their own body)-- are linked, Ananthaswamy suggests, by the simple fact that each condition involves disruptions in an
area of the
brain where the «self» is thought to reside.