Question: how does the brain talk to it self

James Stovold answered on 21 Mar 2013:

The brain `talks’ to itself in a a couple of quite strange ways. The first is the way that we are aware of — this is your conscious mind chattering away in your head, that we hear on a regular basis, when reading/writing and when thinking or talking to ourselves. The second is a bit of a misnomer, as the brain doesn’t strictly `talk’ to itself, but it does communicate with itself by sending electrical signals between different parts of the brain, and by stopping other parts of the brain from communicating at the same time (this is where the idea of attention is thought to come from).