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ortical electro-physiologists are beginning to generate functional models that must eventually be fitted into the known structure of the cortex. Quite independently from this ancillary role of histology, the structure of the cerebral cortex is impressive enough to invite speculation on its own. Peculiarly, the view of the cortical computer derived from the electro-physiology of sensory or motor areas is quite different from that which the global view of cortical anatomy inspires. The two views will eventually converge. Both in a mouse and in a man, the cerebral cortex is the largest continuous piece of gray substance. If continuity of the neuropil means the unity of function, it would imply that the cortex is responsible for the most circumspect decisions within the nervous system. There is continuity of the cortical gray with the amygdala and with the striate body, in memory of the common philogenetic origin of these structures in the primordial telencephalic wall.