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Hopefully this link works but if not it's freely available on the ABC's webpage.
Just listened to this podcast from the ABC radio National show "All in the Mind"with Sana Qadar.
This particular episode was broadcast last Sunday and is a discussion with Professor Moshe Barr who is a cognitive neuroscientist and is about, amongst other things, the Default Mode Network which I will describe as the generally misunderstood standing state of our mind.
When we are apparently doing/thinking about nothing in particular or when we are daydreaming or mind wandering or just "resting."
This section starts about 2 minutes in and runs for about 10 minutes.
I found it particularly interesting in regard to the role of memory as an associative database with which we hypothesise about and try to predict possible/potential future scenarios.
The type of "thinking" perhaps that can presuppose that a child may follow a ball rolling out from behind a hedge?
The type of memory that may be sitting in an early stage of development zipping around a cortical column on a bench somewhere.... maybe???
Could be a long bow, but an interesting way to spend half an hour if you'd like.
Enjoy.
