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Body & Soul0 min ago
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The part of the brain that is more developed in mammals, especially humans is the cortex. This is the outer convoluted layer, which as you suspect has specialisations in different regions. The left hemisphere of the brain is more logical and the right side more creative. At the back is the visual cortex, the front does language. All the stuff that animals have to do too is closer to the centre, somtimes called the 'reptilian brain' which processes instincts, emotions, smells, and memory. Control of muscles is at the top above the ears. Spatial awareness and coordination is calculated in the cerebellum, and the very back, and involuntary output like heartbeat, digestion, hormones is controlled the the brain stem at the top of the spine.
We know most of this from unfortunate people who have survived brain injury, but maintain their self awareness. No one part of the brain can be located as the throne of consciousness, but some processes we know from experience do not hassle us with their minutiae.
The brain does not appear to have a central processing unit. It is an organism within a larger support organism for which the survival and well being of both are mutually inter-dependent.
Consciousness is a sum product of mental processes. Mental processes remain elusive to efforts to pin them down to specific physical constructs. As mentioned above this is a relatively new field since we are only beginning to possess the technical requirements necessary to investigate and explore this unique and challenging area of understanding what we are, what makes us possible and how this most fascinating, complex and vital feature of existence works.
Your curiosity about this is, to say the least, understandable. You show wisdom is questioning any answers given because it is your own understanding that will satisfy and further feed your curiosity. Enjoy the dawn, for a grand new day of understanding is on the horizon. What could be more crucial to understanding (have you noticed how much I like to use that word) ourselves and the world we live in than understanding consciousness itself. It is like stripping off the veneer of �God� itself and seeing how it works.
Sorry about this �answer�, if you are sleeping now I hope you enjoy your nap.