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After hearing the extremely brief alternative story of a triune brain at the end of class, I started thinking about it and decided that I like that story over the story of a bipartite brain. The story of a bipartite brain seems too simplified to me, even though the story of a triune brain only adds one more part and is also simple. I like the idea that there is a mediator between the unconscious and the conscious. My unconscious feels very inaccessable so it makes sense to me that a preconscious is needed to facilitate communication between my conscious and unconscious. As kmanning said, with the story of the bipartite brain, it is implied that the conscious has limitless access to the information in the unconscious. I don't know if my story is wrong, but I don't think that the conscious can tap into all of the information in the unconscious. With the story of a triune brain, it seems to me that access to the unconscious is limited by the preconscious. A question I had about this model is can the conscious and unconscious ever directly communicate even if there is a preconscious?