Whistle

[Song: Whistle] [verse 1] I’m readin’ that the neocortex Has a hundred-fifty-thousand — more or less Cortical columns, mostly the same Animating what I think is… me? [pre-chorus] And the columns all convene Vote on what they’ve heard and seen And what I think that means? There’s nobody drivin’ this machine… [chorus] I'm just the whistle on the train of consciousness Expanding the domain Of my incompetence Neurocortical brain And hypothalamus The whistle only does What the whistle must I'm just a whistle [whistles hook] A simulated whistle [whistles hook] [verse 2] On Intelligence in two-thousand-four Predicted memory with an example door My thalamo-cortical relay Hallucinated yesterday [pre-chorus] My proprioception, interoception Force me to assume that I made a selection And what does all that really mean? There’s no engineer driving this human machine [chorus] I'm just the whistle on the train of consciousness Expanding the domain Of my incompetence Neurocortical brain And hypothalamus The whistle only does What the whistle must I'm just a whistle [whistles hook] A simulated whistle [whistles hook] [bridge] Am I the thinker or the thought? The allocortex or the knot Of spinothalamic signal caught In loops that fired... before I'm not (before I'm what) (before I'm what) The Libet clock already ran I chose before I made a plan I'm just the whistle, not the man (not the man) [kazoo break] [final chorus] I'm just the whistle on the train of consciousness Expanding the domain Of my incompetence Neurocortical brain And hypothalamus The whistle only does What the whistle must I'm just a whistle [whistles hook] A simulated whistle [whistles hook] [outro] La-la-la-la... (la-la-la-la) Nobody's home... (nobody's home) La-la-la... the whistle blows alone