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After class, I was thinking about the implications of the independent, but communicating boxes model of the nervous system.  In the absence of a director, how is a conflict between one or more boxes adjudicated?  Is one box right and the other merely wrong?  Could conflict be more than a prelude to violence or judgment?  Might the conflict between two boxes be a sort of opportunity.  A chance for creativity or making conflict generative.  At its best, the brain is skeptical; it suspends judgment in a conflict between two boxes.  The brain “listens” to the competing stories and combines the useful elements into a synthesis, a new story.