Comments on Context: Our Brains and Minds

An Integrated Mind from Parcellated Activity:
One common false intuition shared by many who enjoy thinking about how the brain works is that the many strands of sensory processing experienced in the in the mind--sights and sounds, taste and aroma, surface texture and shape--all "happen" in a single brain structure. Somehow it stands to reason that what is together in the mind is together at one place in the brain where different sensory aspects mingle. The usual metaphor has something to do with a large CinemaScope screen equipped for glorious Technicolor projection, stereophonic sound, and perhaps a track for smell too. Daniel Dennett has written extensively about this concept which he dubbed "Cartesian theater," and has argued persuasively, on cognitive grounds, that the Cartesian theater cannot exist. I too, on neuroscientific grounds, maintain that it is a false intuition....
     We are beginning to glean where the construction of images for each separate modality is likely to take place, but nowhere can we find a single area toward which all of those separate products would be projected in exact registration.

What does this have to do with online education?

Our minds are not really centralized in our brains, as was once thought.  So why should our ideas always be presented in a centralized fashion?