{"id":211,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:25:32","slug":"thoughts-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"The Network of our Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">PART IV<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 402px; height: 179px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Neuronal-colors.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Brain &amp; Body\u2019s nerve architecture<br \/>\nand their functions<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The nervous system is a body&#8217;s decision and communication center. The central nervous system (<a href=\"?p=505\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">CNS<\/span><\/a>) comprises the brain and the spinal cord. The peripheral nervous system (<a href=\"?p=506\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">PNS<\/span><\/a>) entails nerves. Together they control each part of our daily life, from breathing and blinking to memorizing facts. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Nerves reach from our brain to our face, ears, eyes, nose, spinal cord&#8230; and from the spinal cord to the rest of our body. Sensory nerves gather all input, send that to the spinal cord, <a href=\"?p=507\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">which speeds it to the brain<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The brain makes sense of that message, fires off responses via the motor neurons to the rest of our body. The bundle of nerves running up and down the spinal cord, is <a href=\"?p=507\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">similar to a superhighway<\/span><\/a>, racing messages to and from the brain every split-second.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2020%20pics\/Spinal-cord.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"170\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Head-Brain should be considered as <a href=\"?p=415\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">three brains molded together<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">1. geographically: the upper-, center-, and lower-Brain.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>2. historically: neo-cortex or human (3 Mio yrs), limbic or mammalian (150 Mio yrs), and reptilian brain (500 Mio yrs).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The brain in the belly is called the<\/span><\/span><span style=\"6px; color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> &#8216;Gut Brain&#8217;<\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=205\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\">Read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PART IV The Brain &amp; Body\u2019s nerve architecture and their functions The nervous system is a body&#8217;s decision and communication center. The central nervous system (CNS) comprises the brain and the spinal cord. The peripheral nervous system (PNS) entails nerves. 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