I'm sorry, but each of the bullet points in the top answer were known at least 100 years ago and I'm not sure why it got so much recognition.. My take-away being, human thought won't be better understood by transferring research on statistical optimization models back onto popular or even state-of-the-art neuro-philosophical representations of the brain or the mind or the unconscious or the claustrum or the homonculus or the.. etc. . It's going to be as successful and as much a misplacement of resources as that fable of when the farmer asked a king to place a doubling number of grains of wheat on consecutive chessboard tiles..