Comments on: Is it possible to locate the ego in the human body? http://www.e-g-o.co.uk/is-it-possible-to-locate-the-ego-in-the-human-body/ If you have or know of EGO stay here Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lana Mooney http://www.e-g-o.co.uk/is-it-possible-to-locate-the-ego-in-the-human-body/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Lana Mooney Sat, 26 May 2007 07:12:19 +0000 http://www.e-g-o.co.uk/is-it-possible-to-locate-the-ego-in-the-human-body/#comment-99 The exact physical location of the concept explain by Freud of as the "ego" is not really the point. If the organism is inanimate (dead), then the ego clearly does not exist, unlike the frontal lobe, or an organ. Rather, it is accepted that the ego is a phenomenon requiring dorsal stream processing, and thus is perception based. This “dorsal stream” is an anatomically and functionally distinct subsystem of the visual system that projects to dorsal temporal and parietal cortex and is highly responsive to motion. Therefore, it isn't specifically attributable to one part of the brain or the other. Self awareness is one of the major differences between complex and simple organisms and as we relatively defensless organisms developed our brains to overcome our natural disadvantages, we developed higher conceptual abilities such as abstract thought. Forensic anthropologists believe that the reason homo sapiens exists (and possibly is not a descendant of homo neanderthalensis (neanderthal man)) is that Homo Sapiens was able to develop these higher process which facilitated social cooperation and abstraction. Homo Sapiens, after all, means "thinking man". The exact physical location of the concept explain by Freud of as the “ego” is not really the point. If the organism is inanimate (dead), then the ego clearly does not exist, unlike the frontal lobe, or an organ. Rather, it is accepted that the ego is a phenomenon requiring dorsal stream processing, and thus is perception based. This “dorsal stream” is an anatomically and functionally distinct subsystem of the visual system that projects to dorsal temporal and parietal cortex and is highly responsive to motion. Therefore, it isn’t specifically attributable to one part of the brain or the other.

Self awareness is one of the major differences between complex and simple organisms and as we relatively defensless organisms developed our brains to overcome our natural disadvantages, we developed higher conceptual abilities such as abstract thought.

Forensic anthropologists believe that the reason homo sapiens exists (and possibly is not a descendant of homo neanderthalensis (neanderthal man)) is that Homo Sapiens was able to develop these higher process which facilitated social cooperation and abstraction. Homo Sapiens, after all, means “thinking man”.

]]> By: Johnathan 213 http://www.e-g-o.co.uk/is-it-possible-to-locate-the-ego-in-the-human-body/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Johnathan 213 Fri, 25 May 2007 14:24:15 +0000 http://www.e-g-o.co.uk/is-it-possible-to-locate-the-ego-in-the-human-body/#comment-98 Do you mean the ego as in "id, ego, superego" (freud)? Or do you mean the ego, like how good someone feels about themselves? Do you mean the ego as in “id, ego, superego” (freud)? Or do you mean the ego, like how good someone feels about themselves?

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