[Three basic kinds of behaviour, a scheme of their neurobiological correlates (author's transl)]

The psychic sphere is to be regarded as the source of meaningful behaviour, which is carried out in the service of the cell community that makes up our body. Three fundamental types of behaviour can be distinguished: the purely practical, the theoretical-practical, and the purely theoretical. These three types of behaviour have three different reasons: the first a determining reason, the second a motivating reason, and the third a supporting reason. The threefold nature of the reasons is related to the threefold needs of the cell community (in this context man is considered as an example of an animal). Possible neurobiological bases of human behaviour are depicted in a schematic figure showing the relation of cerebral centres and sensorimotor functions of the human face including eye movements. The psychic centre may be located in the thalamus, the areas of the central sulcus are regarded as an objectivation zone. This indicates that the motor zones of the cortex, including the frontal adversive fields, are intention zones, and the sensory zones reproduction, expectation, and recollection zones. A system so composed would render possible what we see in every animal being: decision-making, foresight, and learning.