Humans beings work in very specific ways. One of the things our brain does for us is to consolidate and streamline the habits we practice into the fewest number of groups possible.
This is a metaphor as our habits aren’t stored in paper files or cabinets, and most habitual behaviors are not localized in the brain. The “sorting”, if you want to call it that, seems to occur on the basis of matching features in external phenomena or internal “mental representations” (another metaphor but we will have to leave it for later discussion) Continue reading this post
