Brainaction

The brain conserves its resources by consigning the great bulk of its routine operations to automatic processing beyond conscious awareness. The automatic use of preset responses makes the brain action relatively effortless. The brain reserves most of its neuronal activity for...

The ready availability of automatic brain action explains the blindness and stupidity of the masses that Hitler exploited (see self-awareness). Most daily brain action proceeds automatically to foregone conclusions. All animals manage the massive sensory input economically with automatic integration...

A form of dualism, the bipolar opposites of consciously directable mental function versus the brain’s unconscious automatic operations, governs brain action (see Descartes). ‘I think, therefore I am” gives consciously directed thought deserved preeminence. The many different ways that brains bring to...