{"id":126767,"date":"2021-08-26T20:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T03:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/this-is-how-your-brain-makes-your-mind"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T03:22:17","slug":"this-is-how-your-brain-makes-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/this-is-how-your-brain-makes-your-mind","title":{"rendered":"This is how your brain makes your mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-how-your-brain-makes-your-mind2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is your mind? It\u2019s a strange question, perhaps, but if pressed, you might describe it as the part of yourself that makes you who you are\u2014your consciousness, dreams, emotions, and memories. Scientists believed for a long time that such aspects of the mind had specific brain locations, like a circuit for fear, a region for memory, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>But in recent years we\u2019ve learned that the human brain is actually a master of deception, and your experiences and actions do not reveal its inner workings. Your mind is in fact an ongoing construction of your brain, your body, and the surrounding world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is your mind? It\u2019s a strange question, perhaps, but if pressed, you might describe it as the part of yourself that makes you who you are\u2014your consciousness, dreams, emotions, and memories. Scientists believed for a long time that such aspects of the mind had specific brain locations, like a circuit for fear, a region [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}