“Reasoning is wayfinding.” All human cognition evolved from coordination of two

“Reasoning is wayfinding.”
All human cognition evolved from coordination of two hemispheres for the purpose of movement in pursuit of acquisition of resources (or escape from harm to them). Once one has dependent offspring, a nest and a social group, one requires wayfinding.
Wayfinding requires a context or episode (index), a need or want (motive), auto association (goal), and relations (paths). That’s all that’s required to organize a neural network to continuously learn.
Everything in the brain and mind is an evolution of the minimum capabilities to navigate.
Evolution in ability is just ‘more neurons’ in a hierarchical, recursive organization of increasing abstraction of increasing complexity of information – but performing the same very simple (even trivial) operations.
Stimulation > Nervous system > Memory > categorization (perception) > Episodic memory > Auto association > wayfinding > [repeat]
It’s not even complicated. There is just a lot of it going on in a continuously updating stream of massively parallel competition for survival of a ‘route’ that achieves an end.
Consciousness is just the memory of the past few seconds of the surviving memories that result from that adversarial process and how we predict it will affect our homeostasis (state).
CD

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