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The effect of stimulations, external or internal, is to
break up the unison of action of some part or the whole
of the brain. A speculative suggestion is that the
disturbance in some way breaks the unity of the actual
pattern that has been previously built up in the brain. The
brain then selects those features from the input that
tend to repair the model and to return the cells to their
regular synchronous beating. I cannot pretend to be able
to develop this idea of models in our brain in detail, but it
has great possibilities in showing how we tend to fit
ourselves to the world and the world to ourselves. In some
way the brain initiates sequences of actions that tend to
return it to its rhythmic pattern, this return being the act
of consummation, or completion. If the first action
performed fails to do this, fails that is to stop the original
disturbance, then other sequences may be tried. The