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Just as one can look through a microscope to see the nascent notochord in a new fetus, we may also be able to look at our computer screens to see the nascent hippocampus, fore-brain, and amygdala of a World Wide Mind.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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It means that your brain is incapable of comprehending linguistic terms by definition, so they only go by the fore-brain emotive response to a word.
Think Progress » Mullen finds ‘little resistance’ among troops to repealing DADT. 2010
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Just as one can look through a microscope to see the nascent notochord in a new fetus, we may also be able to look at our computer screens to see the nascent hippocampus, fore-brain, and amygdala of a World Wide Mind.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Helping the hypothalamus to maintain homeostasis is the pineal gland, the pea-shaped endocrine gland that is located near the fore-brain.
Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001
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Helping the hypothalamus to maintain homeostasis is the pineal gland, the pea-shaped endocrine gland that is located near the fore-brain.
Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001
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I was running into it and through it until the fore-brain took over and stopped me.
The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968
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It showed-why, he thought with a sudden miserable Rash of insight, it showed nothing at all except that even a doomed creature like himself could submerge the fore-brain in a wallow of physical pleasures.
Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963
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Enteropneusta as the equivalent of the cerebral vesicle only of _Amphioxus_ and the Ascidian tadpole, and also of the primary fore-brain of vertebrates.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The fore-brain undergoes great modification: its anterior part or telencephalon expands laterally in the form of two hollow vesicles, the cavities of which become the lateral ventricles, while the surrounding walls form the cerebral hemispheres and their commissures; the cavity of the posterior part or diencephalon forms the greater part of the third ventricle, and from its walls are developed most of the structures which bound that cavity.
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In its early embryonic condition it consists of three hollow vesicles, termed the hind-brain or rhombencephalon, the mid-brain or mesencephalon, and the fore-brain or prosencephalon; and the parts derived from each of these can be recognized in the adult (Fig. 677).
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