Barbara Maria Stafford

The world-generating power of neural nets transforms electric patterns excited in the receptor organs into internal representations. The brain, as a vast collection of systems, is constantly deploying the images that constitute our thoughts as it interacts with the body and the outside world. In between its five main sensory input sectors and three main output sectors lie the association cortices, the basal ganglia, thalamus, amygdala, limbic system cortices, limbic nuclei, brain stem, and cerebellum. Taken together, these organs hold both innate and acquired knowledge and so help us develop a visualizable self-image over time.