“I resisted the urge to look up or down. I knew that I was making desperately slow progress and I didn’t want to be reminded of it by seeing the sunbeam still far above me.” Interesting. For how can you know something and still keep from reminding yourself of it? It would seem to be a paradox…unless you had two brains. Indeed, when Simpson says he “knew,” he means that his hippocampus contained a short-term memory pattern about his situation. But the visual perception of how far he had to go would be sent straight down through the thalamus to the amygdala to be screened, and that was what he
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