At the beginning, Yahweh is pictured, not only as indignant at man's eating
of the «tree
of the
knowledge of good and evil» (Genesis 2:9) and so becoming
conscious of sin, but as being anxious lest man should «take also
of the tree
of life, and eat, and live for ever,» and, in order to guard against this
event, man is driven from Eden and its gates are guarded by «the flame
of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way
of the tree
of life.»
As such, executive function is integral to our
conscious experience
of the world as prior
knowledge is integrated into the current «state
of play» to make predictions about likely future
events.