Sublime

The unconscious operations of a soul would grant you no more freedom than the unconscious physiology of your brain does.

Our language-based theories of how our minds work don't often succeed in explaining how our minds actually work, for so many layers of the mind's operations occur prior to the stories and explanations we offer with language. Neuroscience is helpful in capturing more subconscious processes.

Only a mobile creature needs a brain, points out New York University neurophysiologist Rodolfo Llinás in his 2002 book, I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self.

Our brains are always thinking about something. Because of this, the brain areas that turn off whenever we start to carry out a mental task are the regions that do whatever the brain does when we’re “not doing anything.” Together these regions make up the default mode network (DMN), whose discovery has helped us appreciate just how true it is that

Raichlen, D. & Alexander, G. 2020. Why your brain needs exercise. Scientific American 322(1), 26 – 31.

Memory is shown to be not so much a library but more a repository of ready-to-run routines that enable our daily living.