{"id":415,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:22:13","slug":"3-1-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"3+1 Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Over 500 million years, several brain types were developed, based on responses to evolutionary need of the various life-forms on planet earth. The human skull contains 3 of them. The \u201cyounger ones\u201d lay on top of the \u201colder ones\u201d. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Our 3+1 \u201cquaternary brain\u201d comprises of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">4 integral systems<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">the &#8216;human&#8217; brain or <a href=\"?p=433\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">neo-cortex<\/span><\/a>, (leftside = rational \/ rightside = creative),<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">the &#8216;mammalian\u2019 or <a href=\"?p=510\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">limbic brain<\/span><\/a>, (emotional),<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">the &#8216;reptilian&#8217; brain or <a href=\"?p=509\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">R-complex,<\/span><\/a> (instinctual),<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">the enteric or \u2018<a href=\"?p=511\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">gut&#8217; brain<\/span><\/a>, (intuitive &amp; experiential), with its very elaborate network of neurotransmitters and over 100 million neurons. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Gut-Brain-Interactions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=416\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 500 million years, several brain types were developed, based on responses to evolutionary need of the various life-forms on planet earth. The human skull contains 3 of them. The \u201cyounger ones\u201d lay on top of the \u201colder ones\u201d. Our 3+1 \u201cquaternary brain\u201d comprises of\u00a04 integral systems: the &#8216;human&#8217; brain or neo-cortex, (leftside = rational&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9277,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/9277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}