Is your nervous system a democracy or a dictatorship when controlling your behavior?

Is your nervous system a democracy or a dictatorship when controlling your behavior?

How does the architecture of our brain and neurons allow each of us to make individual behavioral choices? Scientists have long used the metaphor of government to explain how they think nervous systems are organized for decision-making. Are we at root a democracy, like the U.K. citizenry voting for Brexit? A dictatorship, like the North Korean leader ordering a missile launch? A set of factions competing for control, like those within the Turkish military? Or something else?

Caitlyn Jenner still has faith in GOP despite traditional family value platform
Massachusetts

Caitlyn Jenner still has faith in GOP despite traditional family value platform

Evan Lips

CLEVELAND — Coming out as transgender was easy for her; what was harder was coming out as a Republican.

Caitlyn Jenner, the talk of the nation a little more than a year ago when she announced she was no longer going to be known as Bruce Jenner, drew laughs Wednesday at a brunch held at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by the American Unity Fund when she made the above remark.

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