@ TGV - Agreed; well on the first part of point two (... that's just me being nice to the poster). If anything, the concept of "default" is a discovery, not an invention as the post claims. If you look at biological and cognitive systems you see "defaults" everywhere...instincts, reflexes, prepotent responses... are all terms used to describe "default" behavior or functioning in biological systems; and they've been around since before the 60's ... or so I've been told ;)

This is interesting and I don't mean to be cynical, but neuroscience is at least 10 years behind cognitive science and psychology. I can't wait until they can use all their fancy technology to tell us something psychologists and psychophysicists don't already know :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_Embedded_Cognition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situated_cognition