their noses, they don't know they can eat it. The lionfish does have a problem, though, and that is that its fins and dorsal fins are poisonous. And what's the mortality rate for diners? Zero. I mean, there's a Japanese fish called fugu that has a gland that makes its flesh poisonous, and if you
And we use classic ID techniques. We look at dorsal fin nicks and notches, which most people use from surface work. But because we work underwater, we can also look at full body marks.
And they live starting at around 1,000 feet. And they have these two big dorsal fins. The forward one has a poisonous spike in it.
And it really took forever, but it opened the border. He shot the shark in the dorsal fin.
Why does self-consciousness disappear in flow? Because a portion of the brain known as the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex, which sort of is responsible for self monitoring and impulse control, shuts down. So self-monitoring, that's your inner critic, your inner Woody Allen.
it gets split into two Pathways um one is called the the wet pathway also called the ventral stream and this upper one called the dorsal stream is called the wear pathway so the visual information takes these two paths and the operations that the brain performs on these paths are very different the
And it can be even more complex than that. And it's running forward in these pink areas out of auditory parts of the brain into medial prefrontal fields and sort of dorsal medial thalamic fields.
And this, well, and his mom swam around me for 20 minutes. Mozart had his pec fin out like this, and mom's dorsal fin was like this. So he's hitching a ride.
And let me illustrate that with attention networks in the brain. So in the brain, we have two distinct attention networks, goal-directed or also called top-down system, dorsal attention network, which basically, no matter how much noise was around me right now, using this network, I can still focus on what I'm trying to discuss in this presentation.
So we need the healthy balance between them both. So depending on which one you assess that you need to train more, here are some tips of how to train dorsal attention system. So there is focused attention meditations you could do, reducing distractors in the environment that wouldn't steal your attention, and you
And from six or five feet away from a whale's eye? This is his head, this is his blow hole, his dorsal fin.
And from six or five feet away from a whale's eye? We're probably 15 miles offshore, and I'd pour a cup of coffee and look out the porthole, and her dorsal fin would go by.
So good balance between both is needed. However, now, if you do an honest inventory of yourself, majority of people kind of feel, oh, yeah, I need to train my dorsal attention system a bit more because I get too distracted.