{"id":670,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:54:16","slug":"intellectual-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual Brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"?p=433\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Neo-cortex<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Our intellect evolved out of the instinctual &amp; emotional matrix. Instinct defines the parameters that guide each species to form thoughts and develop language. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In a healthy human, instinct, emotion, and intellect work together to create a wide range of choices.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">However, the neo-cortex is not powerful enough to override the instinctual defense responses to threats and danger, such as fight, flee, or freeze. Thus, humans are inextricably bound to their animal heritage. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Animals do not have a highly evolved neo-cortex to interfere with the natural return to normal functioning through some discharge.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In humans, trauma occurs as a result of the start of an instinctual cycle that has not yet been finished. When the <a href=\"?p=433\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">neo-cortex<\/span><\/a> tries to overwrite the completion of this cycle, we will be traumatized.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=671\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Neo-cortex Our intellect evolved out of the instinctual &amp; emotional matrix. Instinct defines the parameters that guide each species to form thoughts and develop language. In a healthy human, instinct, emotion, and intellect work together to create a wide range of choices. However, the neo-cortex is not powerful enough to override the instinctual defense&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1678,"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-670","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\/670","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=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9028,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/9028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}