The first lesson in Lisa Feldman Barrett’s popular book, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, 1 is titled "You Have One Brain (Not Three)." It focuses on debunking Paul MacLean’s triune model of ...

In theatre of the mind, where impulse clashes with intellect, a mid-20thcentury theory endures like a stubborn stage set: the Triune Brain. Coined by neuroscientist Paul D MacLean, the term ‘Triune ...

Gifted science communicator and astrophysicist Carl Sagan won the coveted Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction writing just once, but it wasn’t for his universal classic Cosmos, nor his visionary book Pale ...

(via Big Think) Plato famously described the human psyche as two horses and a charioteer: One horse represented instincts, the other represented emotions, and the charioteer was the rational mind that ...