Our goal in this thought is to find a method for the programmed driving of the attention which creates different excitation levels in dif...
Our goal in this thought is to find a method for the programmed driving of the attention which creates different excitation levels in different parts of the shadow network by conditioned and programmed excitation.
The human brain undoubtedly has this capability. We are capable of driving our attention in an earlier specified way. And we are capable of doing this voluntarily, in a planned way too. We are capable of creating plans which we can follow and drive our attention according to that plan. Maybe this capability isn't exclusively specific to the human brain but unique in the animal world.
What brain functions support this capability? The brain has to model the environment, or even I could say see the future based on the earlier experiences to achieve this. And the main function of the human brain to achieve this is language capability.
The main function of the language that we can think of is to create social interaction, information transfer between the individuals. Undoubtedly the spoken language's main function is this. But the language has another kind of function as well, and this is the capability to create an abstract model of the world. This function of the language doesn't require spoken appearance, can be silent or inside language. And the language with this function could be evolved even earlier than the spoken language and even maybe evolved in different species as well.
With the hierarchical and abstract architecture of the language we can match, describe, model, conceptualize our environment, create plans and pathways to our future behavior, and we can think as thinking is the process to find connections between different things.
With the language, we can "imagine" different situations, and by this, we are capable of exciting the corresponding brain regions as it would be excited in the real situation, finding connections between actually excited regions, creating activity pathways to reach desired goals or as we could say simply: we can think. Thinking is the primary goal of the language.
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