Functional Organization of the Central Nervous System

Abstract

If the modern concept of reality, a relative space-time continuum, is used as the basis for considering the primary central nervous system function of orientation, one arrives at an interesting and simplified concept of the brain. Using the basic sensorimotor organization of the central nervous system, and assuming that motor function can only occur in the future, sensory experience only in the past, the organization of the cerebral cortex (a discriminative organ) can be divided into past and future orientation. The midline cortex ("visceral brain") is not concerned with orientation in time. The value of this different approach is discussed.