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Taking a break from this course has caused me to reflect on what I have learned this semester, so far.  I’m finding it challenging to organize all of the information on the nervous system.  At the lowest level are the neurons, input/output boxes based on chemosensitivity, inhibitions, and synaptic transmission.  At the next level, are neural networks, patterns of activity, and explanation of how we walk on our own feet.  The following level is the differentiation between the I-function and the unconscious or the part of ourselves we know and the part that is cannot be observed by us. 

What I am curious about, is how the I-function and unconscious interact to create stories?  By stories, I mean not only the tales we tell one another, but tacit understandings, private summaries of observations.  Sometimes stories are buried so deep, the person doesn’t even have complete conscious access.  Yet stories are omnipotent, capable of influencing conscious and unconscious behavior alike.   Both logical rational decisions and emotional intuitive acts are guided by stories.  So if brain=behavior, where does the storyteller reside?