Exorcising the Homunculus: There’s No One Behind the Curtain. A neuroscience perspective from a research associate at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition in Pittsburgh on the localization of will. “What emerges is a general story in which the frontal cortex sends actively maintained control signals to much of the rest of the
brain. The nature of these signals is selected primarily by circuits in the limbic system, based on predictions of reward. The control
signals maintained in working memory, along with conflict-related processing in the anterior cingulate, give rise to the selection of
appropriate actions for the current situation.” Free Inquiry