Get More Self Knowledge: Our Primitive Mind
- Self-knowledge can describe accurately how one is feeling, through introspection or self-inquiry.
- Knowing yourself also means being aware of your self-machinery, or how your mind operates and distorts the world around you.
- The primitive, part of our brain is interested in our survival and does not have the capacity for morality, empathy or being deeply insightful.
- The evolved, mature brain, the neocortex, which came much later, is sophisticated but is not as strong as the primitive brain.
- Our hopes, fears and desires belong to our reptilian minds and overpower us most of the time.
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