I watched a talk given by Neil Burgess on how your brain knows where you are and where you're going. He gave the example of a rat in a maze looking for food. Whenever the rat had been a certain place in its environment, its neurons would send an electrical spike signal telling the brain it has been there before. All of the different neuron signals put together actually form a map for your brain, telling it where it is in its environment and where it can go. The talk definitely changed how I see the world, because in everyday life there are times where it seems your brain automatically knows where to go, such as remembering where you parked your car or knowing you're moving in the right direction.
Mason Augustus Wheeler
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