This is Your Brain

The header image on this post depicts the structure that permits you to read this page, to understand these glyphs as words with a meaning, meaning that is known to you, meaning that is shared with all other humans literate in English, meaning that in some ineluctable way has come to inhabit the brain matter of millions of beings.
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Cognitive Circle

A dog, when it is preparing its bed for sleep, will circle round and round, chasing its tail in a fashion, before it finally decides to lay down. Today, on my hill climbs, I thought of the circling dog and realized that I am guilty of the same behaviour. I go round in a cognitive circle.
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