Reptile Dreams of Entrepreneurs

I recently received this email from an American Professor who indulges me with my questions regards the brain:

Dreams are generated in the mesencephalon region of the brain. They are rearrangement of our memories and our conscious and unconscious observations. The dreams occur in REM (Rapid Eye Movement) State. Before the reptilian brain presents the dreams, it completely paralyzes our body so that we cannot move in REM State. There are some beneficial effects of dreams. The most important one is memory consolidation. This is a very complex subject and I won’t go into it here. No one really knows whether reptilian brain is trying to communicate with us or it is simply doing it for the benefit of our memory system. Because
- reptilian brain has no verbal facilities and can only communicate visually,
- the only time we can accept internal visual signals when we are asleep,
- our 3 brains are not yet fully integrated,
I am inclined to think that memory consolidation is just a byproduct of our dreams.

There is one other related area that we should cover is our two vision systems. Most people are not aware that we have an amphibious vision system in addition to our normal visions system, which consists of our eyes and the visual cortex at the back our head. Visual cortex with its several image-processing platforms is very slow. You should pay particular attention to our amphibious vision system, as this is probably one of the important assets of your entrepreneurs. Here is paragraph written by Linden.

“Just as the mouse brain is a lizard brain "with some extra stuff thrown on top," Linden writes, the human brain is essentially a mouse brain with extra toppings. That's how we wound up with two vision systems. In amphibians, signals from the eye are processed in a region called the midbrain, which, for instance, guides a frog's tongue to insects in midair and enables us to duck as an errant fastball bears down on us. Our kludgy brain retains this primitive visual structure even though most signals from the eye are processed in the visual cortex, a newer addition. If the latter is damaged, patients typically say they cannot see a thing. Yet if asked to reach for an object, many of them can grab it on the first try. And if asked to judge the emotional expression on a face, they get it right more often than chance would predict especially if that expression is anger.”

http://www.thehistoryoftheworldsgreatestentrepreneurs.com/books.php?bookId=1

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