Armed with his knowledge, Kasparov looks at the chessboard and compares the patterns that he sees to all 100,000 board situations that he has mastered, and he does all 100,000 comparisons simultaneously. There is consensus on this point: All of our neurons are processing—considering the patterns—at the same time. That does not mean that they are all firing simultaneously (we would probably fall to the floor if that happened), but while doing their processing are considering the possibility of firing.
