ABSTRACT
Mental landscapes, with humans many trillions of notional dimensions, have to be compacted down in order to fit within a brain's three real spatial dimensions plus its one dimension of time. The actual mapping is the other way round; the landscapes are no more than imagined representations of real dynamical events within the brain. Electromagnetic fields in the brain are much more promising candidates for the role of pattern designers. Several theorists have suggested that they are conscious mind. Pseudo-fractality would actually better represent human 'landscapes' than the more ordered, true fractality since the landscapes themselves are likely to be pseudo-fractal. Since astrocytes appear to supply an essential component of the brain's representation of 'mind', it follows that they must play essential parts in cognition and the like. This chapter has been all about looking at the machinery behind mind, which turns out to be quite unlike any automaton from the Enlightenment or android from the twentieth-century imagination.
