There is a lot of evidence implicating the thalamus (esp the central thalamus) and likely brain stem structures such as the locus coeruleus. But birds do have something analogous to the c. cortex at the micro level, it just doesnt have 6+lamina. Still, yum!https://twitter.com/SquashedBox/status/1223726232560336898 …
sorry if this seems irrelevant, but a neuroscientist wrote: everything we observe (between exclusive predictions) has been neither created (+) at some point in the past nor destroyed (-) at some point in the future; which is to stop counting from zero in favor of one another #MSF