Its interesting, perhaps, that all sensory pathways in humans (and other mammals) seem to "bifurcate", in the sense of having one limb that reaches neocortex relatively directly and another that gets there via pathways involving multisensory convergence (and that seems to be present in all vertebrates, whether they have neocortex or not). Maybe that bifurcation helps to explain the interplay between "emotion" and "logic" and the role of memory in it? Maybe it also relates to the question of our ability to "choose" (cf Free will?).