Our Brain Works Sort of The Opposite of How You’d Think

Dec 2, 2019, 3:41 PM

—Our brain works sort of the opposite of how you’d think: it’s always running, always forecasts everything, in a vast competition for attention, what’s most coherent and rewarding gets attention. The brain never stops, ever. We disconnect from it to daydream, relax, rest, or sleep. It never, ever, ever, stops.—

(from elsewhere)