# Neuropsychoanalysis

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**Created:** [May 11, 2019, 12:41am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/neuropsychoanalysis/5991 "2019-05-11T00:41:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bitking](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/bitking/32/3099_2.png) [@Bitking](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/Bitking)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/neuropsychoanalysis/5991/3 "2019-05-11T01:20:06Z")

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Welcome to the community.  
You may find this helpful in learning about this forum:

> [@Read this first](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/read-this-first/384):
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> Please read this before posting on this forum. Table of Contents [Welcome](#welcome)[What is This Forum?](#what-is-this-forum)[Before Posting](#before-posting)[Getting started](#getting-started)[Forum Preferences](#forum-preferences)[Moderation Policies](#moderation-policies)[Examples of High Quality Posts](#examples-of-high-quality-posts)[Questions or Feedback Regarding this Forum](#questions-or-feedback-regarding-this-forum)Welcome to the HTM community! You may have arrived here after: Reading “[On Intelligence](https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Understanding-Creation-Intelligent-Machines-ebook/dp/B003J4VE5Y)” Seeing a presentation by one of the Numenta staff Reading a reference to Numenta in the media In any case, if you are someone who is curious about the human brain, and p…

As far as your question; do you mean like this?

> [@Consciousness - not what you might think](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/consciousness-not-what-you-might-think/3094):
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> I have long thought that the hippocampus/temporal lobe is more of a tourist and less of a driver. [1] The driver is the midbrain/limbic system. The back parts of the cortex filter and shape perception, to be registered in hippocampus/temporal lobe as autobiographical memory. In this general view - the forebrain takes the midbrain “animal impulses” and shape and elaborate them into various actions such as “seeing” (Scanning and parsing visual perception), “hearing” (cocktail effect), and actin…

This is a much more detailed exposition of the role of sub-cortical structures:

> [@Basic system level diagram of the brain](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/basic-system-level-diagram-of-the-brain/5834):
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> HTM seeks to model and understand what is going on in your head. I tossed this drawing together from memory so it is sure to be missing some connections. I skipped the thalamic connections all together as this was already a very complicated drawing. Also not shown are the connections between the limbic system and the stream passing through the brain stem and the cerebellum. These are important but not necessary to illustrate the basic cortical/limbic data flows. The blue maps are cortex compose…

Numenta is focused on the general cortex algorithm but there are many here with a more general focus.

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