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In part one of Anatomy of the Ego, we learned that the ego is nothing more than a neurological system of measurement designed to defend and maintain a point of observation or level of consciousness. In part two of Anatomy of the Ego, we learned the psychological composition of the ego, better known as Propriospect and Idiolect.

This installment of Anatomy of the Ego will discuss the Five Neurological Operators of the Brain the ego comprises.

Modern-day metaphysics describes the ego as something that controls us and stifles us from advancing to the next level in consciousness. In reality, the ego is nothing more than a group of operators in the brain that help us maintain our equilibrium and our current point of observation-better known as our current level of consciousness.

Dr. Andrew Newberg is the Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, with secondary appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Religious Studies. In his book, Why God Won't Go Away, Dr. Newberg lists key operators, or functions, of the brain that make up the metaphysical concept of the ego, or homeostasis. These key operators are as follows.

Verbal Conceptual Association Area. This first operator that makes up the ego allows us to name and catalog the world in which we live. The Verbal Conceptual Association Area is:
1. primarily responsible for generating abstract concepts and for relating those concepts to words.
2. crucial to the development of consciousness and the expression of consciousness through language.

Causal Operator. This second operator of the ego allows us to ask how and why questions. The Causal Operator:
1. enables the mind to interpret all reality as a sequence of specific causes and effects. Imagine not being able to view reality as causal sequences-we'd have no ability to comprehend anything!
2. drives (most likely) almost all human curiosity. It drives us to find the causes of all things that interest or concern us.

Apparently the Causal Operator compels us to use science, philosophy, and especially religion to explain the mysteries of the Universe.

The Binary Operator. This third operator of the ego:
1. enables us to split reality into this verses that-enabling the mind to make fundamental sense of things by reducing the most complicated relationships of space and time to simple pairs of opposites-up verses down, in versus out, left versus right, before versus after, and so on.
2. prompts us not just to observe and identify opposites, but to actually create them!

Dr. Andrew Newberg who identified these operators said, "Whoever the first myth-makers were, they were likely set apart neurologically from the rest of creation by the presence and function of a well-developed parietal lobe. …the parietal lobe is a crucial part of the brain's myth-making center. No brain lacking some kind of parietal area could think in terms of opposites, so it could not create the basic components of myths' structure."

The Existential Operator. This fourth operator of the ego:
1. assigns a sense of existence, or reality, to the sensory information processed by the brain and maintained by the ego.
2. gives us the sense that what the brain shows us is real.

The Emotional Value Operator. This fifth operator of the ego:
1. gives us a feeling about what happens and assigns an emotional valence to all the elements of perception and cognition.
2. drives us to seek the company of others, without which we'd not desire mates, or even care for our young.

Amazingly, the brain ensures that we will pursue survival intensely and passionately!

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