Making decisions

Something is going wrong and an uncontrolled explosion is happening. He holds a six-pound iron bar in his hand, passes over his head, passes his skull over his forehead, and jumps about 25 meters away. The gage goes out for a while, then the horses go to the horse cart and go to the doctor. He realizes that you can not speak at the beginning, but when he gets near him, he shows his head and says an interesting sentence: "There is a lot of work here for you!" There is no left eye, but Gage has no additional complaints. The 25-year-old Gage complains of the epileptic seizure only until the age of 41 when it reaches the age of accident. However, although the Gage is healthy and normal, it can never be the old Gage. Before the accident, after building "moderate habits and a highly energetic character," he acted disrespectfully and rudely about irregular, thoughtless, vulgar insults, capricious, unstable, futuristic plans. It will never be successful in business life and social life will turn into a nightmare. The problem seems to be disconnected from change, emotion, and thoughts in trouble character rather than physical talent and skills. The brain of the Gage, which is located in the gray matter area (prefrontal region) at the front of the brain's frontal lobes, is protected only in the lateral and outer gray matter (dorsolateral prefrontal area) of the anterior lobes. although there are gray ore (orbitofrontal and medial frontal areas) on the medial and medial surfaces of the prefrontal region.

Antonio Damasio examines Gage-like anterior lobe gray matter lesions and reveals the concepts of "Somatic Marker Hypothesis" and "Sanction Cycle" to explain the findings of the cases. If our mind can make good decisions in a short time, it should use something beyond the mind. Looking for the answer to this question, Damasio begins to think that an alternative thinking is necessary. Damasio thus explains the hypothesis of somatic markers:

"If you have a bad conclusion about a particular response option or if it is unclear, you feel something unpleasant to us. Since the emotion is about the body, we use a technical term to describe it as a somatic state (" soma "refers to the Greek body) I mark it as a sign for an image "sign" ... What does the somatic marker do? It draws attention to the negative consequence that this particular action may cause, and it gives the following signal like an automatic alarm: if you prefer this result, watch out for danger ... The presence of the Soma marker improves the accuracy and efficiency of the decision process, but its absence reduces them, which is important and can easily be overlooked "(Damasio, 1999, p. 178)

Okay, the body gives these signals / signals, but then what? The brain still has the last word. Always the signal will not interrupt the future. Sometimes (if the heel is very necessary) all our courage will suppress the signals from our bodies and we will walk on a wall 50 feet wide by 4 meters high. Damasio also has atiffte in the brain or in the body. At this point it extends to the concept of "sanction cycle"; "If I come from what I already say about the physiology of emotions, the somatic marker process must have a single mechanism, but through the basic mechanism, the body is forced to obtain a certain profile by the prefrontal cortex and amygdala, and then the result of this body- In the alternative mechanism, the body passes and the prefrontal cortex and amygdala, the somatic sensory cortex, are pleased to report that the body has done it in the desired way and is given upwards according to the activity model that is to be informed upwards: Somatic sensory cortex, The "as if" activity model can influence the decision-making process, even if it is not exactly the same as the activity model created by a real body state.

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