OFC: Orbital Frontal Cortex: Transmits pleasure/pain valenced stimuli to the self‐domain PFC: Prefrontal Cortex: Evolving cortex comprising system‐consciousness apperception PTSD: Post‐traumatic‐stress‐disorder: Chronic failure of VMPFC to inhibit fear conditioning

Following Gerald Edelman’s understanding of the formation of consciousness, and using contemporary neuroscience findings about the functional qualities networks add to consciousness when they are included in a distributed top‐down network, I have gathered data about how the social brain transforms neural to mental function. I think all social neuroscientists are indebted to Raichle’s group’s discovery of the default domain, a highly activated set of networks that spend 90% of the brain’s metabolism activated together to calculate survival strategies. Many social neuroscientists,‐‐like Anthony Damasio‐‐have accepted the proposition that an extended VMPFC self‐domain focused on emotional regulation enters consciousness as the core of a social domain extending to DMPFC otherness. Therefore, I have annotated studies that focus on describing networks that enter the default domain, particularly those networks that carve a social domain—a theory of mind (ToM) ‐‐ from the VMPFC and DMPFC arena.