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.