Eli5: How is it that sometimes you can have a conversation with yourself and have yourself make sense of something you didn’t previously understand?

Question

Eli5: How is it that sometimes you can have a conversation with yourself and have yourself make sense of something you didn’t previously understand?

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

This isn’t going to have an exact answer.

We just kind of barely understand how our brains work, having general ideas of what sections handle which actions. How certain pathways get used more often and grow and become more robust.

But how exactly that mix of electrical and chemical signals turns into our thoughts, feelings, emotions, we have no idea. That step is still a mystery to us. How the brain stores thoughts in information we can’t exactly explain, except that it does.

So the best answer that we can really give and that your brain is a giant complex and confounding library, and sometimes you just need to research that library or walk yourself back down that mental/neural pathway that leads to the information you couldn’t consciously recall Until you remembered it again.