Scientific Model of the Brain - From Instinct to Reason: How does the Brain work?
It certainly makes sense to view the brain as the government of the organism. It would then be natural to say, that all important decisions are taken by our (conscious) mind. However, if we analyze a little deeper how the brain works, we will quickly realize, that in this context the word 'decisions' is rather misleading: Our mental constructs are nothing but the result of our experience with the environment. As a matter of fact, our mental constructs' raison d'etre is the formation of a model of the world outside, where - in order to optimize our interaction with our environment - our interpretation of how the world works is represented. It is therefore really hard (if not altogether impossible) to conceive anything foreign to everything we have so far been exposed to. For instance, as three-dimensional beings interacting in this world with other three-dimensional structures, it is really hard for us to conceive any four-dimensional shape. Since it is also our daily e...