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Our prefrontal cortex functions like a primitive “Turing machine.” It operates slowly and makes frequent mistakes, but the novel syntheses it generates can be genuinely creative.

In summary, our brain behaves as if it were inhabited by two visual experts. The first, which I will call the “collector,” recognizes and labels objects, but pays little or no attention to location and orientation in space. The second, the “manual worker,” acts, compares, manipulates... but fails to identify the objects it handles.