F16 and our "restless" brain..Royal Society's take!
It stuck me as a genius whoever designed the F16... pilots have to be absolutely alert and true fighters remain agile every split second! Same way 'I' as pilot of our constant "restless brain" have got to be alert every split second , not to be led astray! But when we join an organised service in Government, it is like a stable passenger plane... quite restful with occasional exciting club games like pipping some one in the race for promotion! http://rstb. royalsocietypublishing.org/ content/364/1521/1181.short As much as this collection answers important questions, it raises and emphasizes outstanding ones. How are experiences coded optimally to afford using them for predictions? What is the mechanism underlying reconstruction, and how do we construct a new simulation from separate memories? How specific in detail are future-related mental simulations, and when do they rely on imagery, concepts or language? What is the difference in mechanism and cortical underpinnin...