Brainy humans unique (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, September 19, 2013, 19:52 (4084 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Where imagination is developed; lots of places at once:
 
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130916162003.htm-QUOTE: Philosophers and scientists have long puzzled over where human imagination comes from. In other words, what makes humans able to create art, invent tools, think scientifically and perform other incredibly diverse behaviors?
________________________________________-The answer, Dartmouth researchers conclude in a new study, lies in a widespread neural network -- the brain's "mental workspace" -- that consciously manipulates images, symbols, ideas and theories and gives humans the laser-like mental focus needed to solve complex problems and come up with new ideas.
-The rest of the article is in precisely the same vein, and I've struggled to find any answer to the question at the head of this passage. They might just as well have said that imagination, like every other faculty associated with human consciousness, springs from the brain. The fact that different areas of the brain are associated with different activities is hardly a new discovery, but still leaves unanswered the question of HOW globules of matter produce consciousness, images, emotions etc., and indeed whether the brain cells do produce them, as opposed to receiving them. Have I missed something, or is this another case of have grant, will babble?