>>246
Thinking (conscious, "talking to self") and feeling (i.e. intuition) is done by the very same circuits that allow us to make those "word categories" about which >>235 wrote.
However, our consciousness\the "I" that senses, thinks, talks (to itself), feels sad, insecure and lonely, thinks\does not, in fact, exist. There is no "centre of consciousness" in the brain. The closest thing to it\our "I"\are those spots of activity that you might have seen on those fancy MRI pictures that constantly shift all over the place. It is strange, considering that we don't feel any interruptions while we are awake, isn't it?