The brain's procedure to handle a problem

1. A preproblem state of being relatively at rest exists.
2. A problem calling for solution--of an opportunity calling for pursuit--is detected at some level of our awareness.
3. In order to solve the problem, both the desired outcome and the conditions likely to prevail in the future must be visualized, hence the forcasting mind is activated.
4. Via the reticular network and many other channels, the frontal brain cells for information from many cohorts--our senses, memory. It also activates the motor centers if eyes, ears, hands, or legs must gather data.
5. The right brain produces a quick gestalt linking the problem to a first-guess solution. 
6. Somewhat later the left brain produces an analysis of how the problem maybe solved as a sequence of specific steps.
   
7. The frontal lobes consolidate these inputs and analysis into a first forecast.
   
8. The forecast is going to the forebrain, midbrain and brainstem areas for evaluation.
   
9. The forecast is been tested, either through imagining what it will mean when put into effect or through actual physical intervention.
   
10. Test results are fed back through the system with forecast revisions until we settle for the forecast as the best we can make at that time, or until the action which it guides is completed--thus leaving us again, temporarily, at rest.