BRAINS AND MINDS

At the top of its central root, the Tree Of Knowledge (TOK) shows the mind of an illogical Being. This mind interfaces with a human brain, and this post concerns both.

The essential question is how does a physical brain interface with a nonphysical idea, or how does a physical atom think? People who work with and study the physical ideas on the left of the TOK ignore this problem. Their interests range from quanta of light and gravity to faraway galaxies but not inward to what is handling their interests.

My metaphysics post says our physical universe is a self contained set of interacting logical ideas. Our minds process these ideas, and we think they are real. I started with the idea of a point and created a field of Space and ten other fields. These fields interact to produce all that we think are real including brains.

Let’s start with an unstable atom that just became alive and is on its evolutionary way to becoming a mammal. It began by covering itself with stable atoms, and this stability is a key. Gravity compresses other atoms together to produce other stable elements like Carbon while converting some atoms to Space. So, stability is only for a short time as all will eventually reconvert to Space.

As for our unstable atom, the orbital energy of its neutrons spreads to other neutrons in its surrounding atoms. This enables them to make contact with other stable atoms so that the surrounding wall of atoms becomes thicker. To remain the same, this live unit must make contact with other atoms like Oxygen and transfer some of its orbital energy to the original unstable atom. The process repeats, and the unit grows.

As the unit grows, it bends due to outside influences. This bending impacts all of the atoms in the unit, and changes their energy level or orientation. Some internal atoms carry the bending signal better than others, and a line of these atoms becomes the affecters for the unit. Another line of atoms becomes the effecters and try to prevent the bending. The incoming energy signal is Ray, and it triggers the release of a larger Ray which becomes the outgoing signal. We know it as a stimulus and a response.

It is possible for the bending to take place without an external stimulus when an atom suddenly releases its energy. If this bending helps the unit move and find Oxygen atoms or other energy sources, then the unit survives. If it repeats this cyclic process, we say it learned to move and search for food. The point or atom for these internal stimuli marks the beginning of a brain. However, at this stage, it is better to stick with a natural cyclic stability process.

If we move up to an egg in a female mammal, we find a cluster of atoms like a row of dominos. The stimulus for this cluster is the male sperm. This sperm is not alive, but it has the ability to bend its tail and move. Upon penetrating the egg, it provides the stimulus to set off a chain reaction that allows millions of years of evolution to occur in a few months. As the fetus develops, so does its brain. Absent an illogical Being, a child continues to develop and learns stimuli-responses (S-R) from its family. Again, the key is stability for the child and its family as they hunt and gather food for survival.

With the advent of an illogical Being, changes occur which are not related to S-R. The first change is the occupation of the Being’s memory with the brain of the fetus. It is best at this point to remember that a brain is a group of ideas. And, it is these ideas which sate the memory of the illogical Being and overloads its mind. As this mind begins to process these ideas, the child continues to develop. As this mind gains control, it begins to make changes in its community, and others learn from these new changes.

Psychology is the branch of science that deals with the S-R behavior of humans. Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that deals with emotional and mental disorders. Both are important fields to help understand how the brain and mind function.

HUMAN CLONES

The Tree Of Knowledge (TOK) shows humans at the bottom of its central root, and we need a generic view of these humans.

The reasoning in my metaphysics article says our physical universe cycles form one Big Bang to the next. During the compression period before a Big Bang, there are no humans. During the expansion period after a Big Bang, there is only a short period of time in which animals can live.

Visualize this period by thinking of a planet much larger than our Earth. Its sun gave it birth, and it has its own free neutrons. Gravity pushes these free neutrons together, and they cause a nuclear explosion which vaporizes a third of the planet. The planet splits apart to stabilize its moment of inertia. The rains come to fill the abysses and form oceans. Life begins. Dinosaurs come and go, and the age of mammals begins which include anthropoids.

These early humans live in packs like other animals. They evolve and reproduce. They kill for food and live close to the soil. There may be zillions of them on zillions of planets, but they will all die and reconvert to Space before the next Big Bang. ‘Die’ is a misnomer. Our physical universe is a self contained set of interacting logical ideas. Our minds process these ideas, and we think they are real.

We now want to consider why humanoids are a part of this reality.
Our universe is a school whose purpose is to teach its pupils (illogical Beings) how to reason logically.

A major change occurs in a human society when an illogical Being is born into a family. This pupil cannot bring over any ideas from The Universe into this physical universe. However, it does seem to realize that there is something more than the physical objects it sees. It conceives the idea of a creator, and the tribe learns to believe in a God.

With the coming of religion, the locals need to have faith. They must believe whatever their shaman tells them, and the tribe employs some sort of punishment for the unfaithful. Faith in the local dogma makes it difficult for new pupils to learn to reason logically. Faith impedes reason even for physicists.

A major change also occurs when two illogical Beings were born into a tribe. A conflict arises as to whose illogical ideas are to dominate. Each pupil believes everything would be better if everyone followed his ideas, and the end justifies the means. Various political forms arise and evolve as the locals fight wars to establish their illogical ideas.

It appears that humans serve two purposes. First, humans are receptacles for the minds of the incoming illogical Beings, and I’ll say more about these minds in my next post. Second, humans are receptacles for the illogical ideas and act like mirrors. That is, the illogical Beings will recycle, and upon reentering, they will face their own illogical ideas, e.g., Brahmins return as ‘untouchables’ and masters as slaves.

This is a form of teaching. A pupil returns to live in the Hell it creates. This recycling continues until the pupil realizes its ideas are illogical and begins to learn how to reason logically.

With this recycle in mind, think of the first rule: ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’.