The neocortex performs all of the functions that make us unique as humans. For many years we believed that humans had two major kinds of intelligence - verbal and mathematical. All of these functions are part of the neocortex. Probably the highest of the intelligences, and the greatest form of creative thought, is intuition. Intuition is the ability to receive or perceive information that may not be directly available to our five senses.
People are afraid of intuition because they think it somehow precludes rational thought.
Next week we'll explore some of the insights that our knowledge of brain functions provides. His copy of the Wellness Encyclopedia is on its way to him. The number and scholarly nature of the responses was quite impressive. Many people noted that farm animals are reservoirs of the disease. For example, there is a strain named for Fort Dix, NJ where an outbreak involving a previously unidentified influenza strain occurred in 1977.