Who/Where is the descision maker?

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See if this makes sense to you:

Basic system level diagram of the brain

HTM seeks to model and understand what is going on in your head. I tossed this drawing together from memory so it is sure to be missing some connections. I skipped the thalamic connections all together as this was already a very complicated drawing. Also not shown are the connections between the limbic system and the stream passing through the brain stem and the cerebellum. These are important but not necessary to illustrate the basic cortical/limbic data flows. The blue maps are cortex compose…

Low level processing in the old brain

I have posted several times offering that the lower-level control structures work something like a Boltzmann or Hopfield network. I would like to expand on this concept. Let’s start with the basics. In the brainstem processing, we have many body sensors that sample blood-based messengers such as osmotic concentration or glucose levels. All of the body sensations also pass through these systems and provide additional information on the outside environment. It is the job of these low-level contr…