Basic system level diagram of the brain

[Bitking]

I don’t recall ever seeing anything that says that the cortex initiates action, only that it responds passively. The closest that it gets in initiating action is spreading activation from map to map.

The Thousand Brains Theory - Reviewed

I respectfully differ on this. I see that the Papez circuit loops through most of the limbic system (including the hippocampus) and that the hippocampus is the main mediator between the two systems (limbic and cortex) - it combines the episodic experience and what we felt about it to drive judgement. We do NOT think through what is good and bad about things, we feel it first and remember it with the experience. This ranges from simple objects to complex social settings. Our judgments of good an…