1-9. Thought as a Control Mechanism

The various forms of control systems discussed above operate in the physical domain. Our CNS moves various body parts daily by contracting or relaxing muscles to make a purposeful movement. Analogously, we manipulate daily a thought in the mental domain. For example, we use languages, make evaluations, and come to decisions, these being major components of human intelligence. Formalistically, as a controlled object, an idea or concept in the mental domain is analogous to a body limb in the physical domain. At present, however, there is as yet no experimental or computational way to bridge the physical and mental domains that operate in the CNS. Hence, any postulated thought control mechanism has no unequivocal representation in neuroscienc....