Scientific Model of the Brain - From Instinct to Reason: How does the mind work?
Formatted Version . Single Page Version . Have you ever wondered how does the mind work? Believe it or not, here you will find out. How does learning take place? How are ideas generated? How does reasoning come about? How does our sense of consciousness emerge? Why do we sometimes feel happy and some other times unhappy? Our mind is such a miraculous phenomenon, that it is only natural to believe it must be out of magic. However, in actuality, it is not impossible at all to conceive how conscious thought and reasoning may emerge out of the competition and cooperation among the billions of neurons in our brains. Indeed, we just need to consider the brain as the government of the organism: In the same way that the government of a society determines the policies the nation should take in order for the society to prosper, the brain processes external and internal information in order to elaborate plans of actions, for the achievement of the organism's goals. Then, with this parallelis...