Abstract
This paper builds upon a critically clarified statement of the triune brain concept to set out the conflict systems neurobehavioral model. The model defines the reciprocal algorithms (rules of procedure) of behavior from evolved brain structure. The algorithms are driven by subjectively experienced behavioral tension as the self‐preservational programming, common to our ancestral vertebrates, frequently tugs and pulls against the affectional program‐ming of our mammalian legacy. The yoking (zygon) of the dual algorithmic dynamic accounts for the emergence of moral and spiritual consciousness as manifested in the universal norm of reciprocity and in the work of such thinkersas Martin Buber and Paul Tillich.
Keywords
Martin Buber, conflictsystems neurobehavioral model, Paul Tillich, reciprocalalgorithms of behavior, triune brain, Paul D. MacLean
How to Cite
Cory Jr., G., (2000) “From Maclean's Triune Brain Concept to the Conflict Systems Neurobehavioral Model: The Subjective Basis of Moral and Spiritual Consciousness”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 35(2), 385–414. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/0591-2385.00283