Three Layers of the Brain
Edited and posted by Prof Ilchi Lee
To utilize your brain in the manner described before, you need to be familiar with the rudimentary facts about our brains. You don’t have to be familiar with the various specific names for the different and intricate parts. You just need to know that the brain is divided into three layers. The outermost layer is the neocortex. The middle layer is the cerebral limbic system. And the innermost layer is the brain stem.
On the scale of human history, the neocortex is the youngest of all the three layers, coming into being relatively recently. The neocortex is mainly responsible for logic deduction, reasoning analysis, memory, and creativity. With the development of the neocortex, humans have been able to develop languages, create ideologies and religions, write laws, and raise up civilizations. In a word, the neocortex is what separates human beings from other animals in biological terms. The neocortex has the ability to control our basic instincts, sometimes going too far to the point of suppressing our natural survival instincts. The neocortex is the part of us most responsible for the material world we live in today.