> Only the real heavy thinking/processing happens in the CPU... > Brains and computer systems work in similar ways. I think that this characterization is pre

> Only the real heavy thinking/processing happens in the CPU... > Brains and computer systems work in similar ways. I think that this characterization is pretty simplistic. Perhaps it's useful as a model from time to time, but does not capture the massively complex reality, full of unknowns and poorly understood by science to this day. Where is this "CPU" in the brain, of which you speak? I suppose the pre-frontal cortex? That zone is generally associated with orchestration/planning, that you mention. But to say that those functions constitute "the real heavy thinking" is a bit of a reach, I think. It would be like saying the manager does the all the hard work (: I'm no neuroscientist, but anecdotally, a good portion of my important mental results come from an unknown place — maybe bubbling to the forefront of consciousness when I'm sitting on the toilet, or in a dream. Not when my "CPU is spinning", so to speak. YMMV.