" neuroscience has come to believe that all of our human qualities of language, reason, thought, auditory and visual perceptions, emotional forces, etc.—essentially all of the qualities of mental experience that become part of our human awareness—are directly derived from the most powerful calculator in the human brain: the neocortex. Although "

― Eben Alexander , Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Heart of Consciousness