The mind’s highest activity consists of neural patterns turned into mental images

Evidence

Damasio affirms that ”the brain makes neural patterns in its nerve-cell circuitry and manages to turn these neural patterns into the explicit mental patterns which constitute the highest level of biological phenomenon,” and which he likes to call, succinctly, images—visual images, auditory images, tactile images, and so forth, images that can convey any object, any relation, concrete or abstract, any word, and any sign. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 200