Ananke

ANANKE was the primordial goddess (protogenos) of necessity, compulsion and inevitability. Area 23c monitors progress of strategy and detects failure to progress towards the outcome.
Ananke

Traditional interpretation

ANANKE was the primordial goddess (protogenos) of necessity, compulsion and inevitability. In the Orphic cosmogony she emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation--an incorporeal, serpentine being whose outstretched arms encompassed the breadth of the cosmos. Ananke and her mate Khronos (Chronos) (Time), their serpentine coils entwined, crushed the primal egg of creation splitting it into its constituent parts of earth,

???Ananke; Greek: Ἀνάγκη, from the common noun ἀνάγκη, "force, constraint, necessity") is the personification of inevitability, compulsion and necessity. She is customarily depicted as holding a spindle.

How neuromythography uses

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Mickey Mouse is a Brain Area

Ananke represents the 23c.

Notes

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Monitors progress of strategy and detects failure to progress towards outcome.
Activated in OCD

Ananke was the goddess of compulsion and slavedriving.

Sense of freedom of choice
Agency

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Beth Sheridan

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