Synopsis:
- Neurons are active all the time
- The activity of neurons generates patterns of behavior all the time
- Neurons are always active, even when there are no inputs
- Neurons operate at their own pace, regardless of the pace of information
- A rhythmic system controls their activity
- The neurons are telling the body to move even when the body is not moving
- The environment selects which movement the body will actually perform
- Movement is not reactive: it is active and automatic
- An organism has only limited control of its brain
- A scanning system that sweeps across all regions of the brain 40 times a second
- A wave of nerve pulses sent out from the thalamus and triggering all the synchronized cells in the cerebral cortex that are recording sensory information
- The cells then fire a coherent wave of messages back to the thalamus
- Only cortex cells that are active at that moment respond to the request from the thalamus.
- Consciousness originates from the constant interaction between the thalamus and the cortex
- Every function in the body is controlled by a rhythmic system that occurs automatically
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