See my LGN conjecture for an approach to completing Confabulation Theory as a high level description of "the mechanism of cognition". RHN leaves unstated the way his "cognitive muscles" are "coordinated." Here's my guess: The phylogenetically primitive learning systems lacked a neocortex and merely produced action/reaction coordination of muscles with utility function largely hardwired to react to certain sensory inputs. However, in order to make decisions that are more adaptive, evolution increasingly abstracted action into virtual action/reaction -- aka simulation. This does two things: 1) Virtual action no longer goes to physical muscles but, rather, to virtual muscles. 2) The reaction to these virtual muscles occurs in a kind of self-simulated virtual world that generates virtual sensory inputs to the LGN that then is in a position to make decisions based on the invariant -- hardwired utility function. The layers of the LGN become the phylogenetic origin of the self-simulation machinery's layers that generate virtual sensory inputs driven by virtual muscular contractions. Eventually, you get neocortical patches emerging as the "muscles of thought" but these "muscles of thought" have coordination mechanisms intimately related to the original coordination of muscles directing the organism toward reward.
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