AFAIK: Hippocampus is a ‘repeater’ thereby converting state to short term memory, and to long term, by continuous recursive free association, whereas thalamus (you) seizes opportunities to focus upon, and uses frontal lobe to incrementally and recursively consider seizing them.
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@DegenRolf
The median temporal lobe is the breeding place for self-generated thought in the human brain. https://t.co/pPvRoxLv5b More evidence for the hippocampus as the “spark plug” of thinking: https://t.co/XGoUcCItHB https://t.co/qPofF2kLJy
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