[MD] memory and the brain

[Krimel]

{Krimel}
> Experience as I have tried to insist is not a unity at all it is the
> illusion of unity. Any experience triggers stimulation of a variety of
> neural pathways, visual, auditory, emotional and so forth. All of these
> different pathways become associated together in memory and as they are
> different pathways and as they are distributed throughout the brain it
> is
> perhaps not surprising that they do not appear to be localized. Unity is
> the
> result of the common patterning of these distributed pathways acting in
> concert.
 
[Platt]
Who does the associating, distributing, patterning and acting? 

[Krimel]
When a raindrop lands on your windshield, who determines its path toward
your wiper blade?

Or I might say that: "Who" IS the associating, distributing, patterning and
acting?