Brain - How the brain works

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Updated edition 2023

 

The brain (which also contains the ego with its aims) interprets all information and makes all decisions based on the aims it contains – which include cognitive and intuitive parts.

  • The brain directs and moves people.
  • It is not that the brain is there on the one hand and the SELF is on the other, but this is integrated in the brain and plays its role from here.
  • And to prevent a widespread misunderstanding: Consciousness is not the SELF!

The brain is an interpreter: it interprets the world and events in a way that suits its aims. It has the task of interpreting perceptions and sensations (i.e. information) according to the aims it contains and generating appropriate attitudes and instructions for action.

(It does not simply depict the world, but shapes it - according to its aims.) This is done by the midpoints (neural networks).

This includes anticipating alternatives, and et al to ask the consciousness of what the particular problem solution might have consequences (so that it experiences it and gives information to the brain) - unless it already "knows" the consequences through similarities that it has stored.

Again: The brain does not simply depict the world, but shapes it - according to its aims. This is done by the neural networks (midpoints).

All human decisions are made by the brain in the head, the autonomic nervous system (plus the somatic nervous system), and the abdominal brain (enteric nervous system).

Between these there is a constant exchange of information by means of neural networks.

Anyone who has ever been in a research facility in which the constant firing of neurons is made audible, gets an impression of the countless processes that take place in the brain.

The general knitting pattern of the brain is the similarity; When an impulse, a question, a request, etc. comes up, it first looks for something that equals it.

The brain is subject to physical and chemical laws. It runs, as I said, for similarities, themes and aims with their midpoints that control it, and consists of various areas. For example, Amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamus, cerebellum.

Certainly e.g., mainly activated by the eyes the visual center (occipital lobe) in the brain, by hearing the hearing center (the auditory cortex) etc., but also always neural networks (midpoints) at the same time.


The first is physical, the second psychic.


It is important to know that these areas never work separately for themselves, but always with others via neural networks.

These in turn have connections to many other networks, so that ultimately the entire brain in the head, the autonomic nervous system (plus the somatic nervous system) and the abdominal brain (enteric nervous system) are interconnected.

All networks were created by aims. The neurons located here are not only bound to them, but can also be used for others via synapses.

Networks are particularly activated by essential information of attention. The feelings that are always stimulated in parallel in the respective networks are of particular value. They are particularly suitable for controlling people. This functional process takes place through the respective similarities in the brain, which only include new information to a limited extent.

Like everything else, the brain runs on substances that are controlled by laws.

As already mentioned, the goals of the ego are also located in the brain. The ego consists of a relatively small number of goals, which - in terms of their values - represent an essential part of the brain. It can strengthen or weaken goals with its will and by means of information from perception, i.e. it can influence other goals in the brain via the center point mechanics of the will aim.

However: If you want something, a target can be activated or generated - but whether this works is decided by the psyche; and the then respectively activated centers in the brain.

One does not experience oneself as someone controlled by the brain; because one does not perceive its processes, except for the decisions; because of the diversity cannot perceive. Therefore, one has the impression that one decides oneself, with his free will, his consciousness.

Not least because of this, the general view is that man controls himself with his consciousness and that the brain is only an aid

So, we do not experience our brain, but what our senses convey to us via the brain.

People see, feel the result of their thinking, their actions and think that they did this (for example with their free will or with their consciousness).

They are wrong! That's what her brain did.

Because if you look more closely, you learn that you are not something separate from your brain that looks at the brain from the outside, but that you are integrated into it.

When one is observing oneself, the aim of observing that has formed as the midpoint in the brain is actually observing the brain.

I would like to point out again that consciousness in particular does not control people. This becomes clear when you take a closer look at consciousness, which is merely a supplier of information to the brain (so that it can make better decisions).

It can only come to someone from his brain. Even if something comes to mind from the environment, it is always up to the brain to decide what value it may have to be taken into account.

Ultimately, someone can only come up with something from their brain. Even if something comes to mind from the environment, it's always up to the brain to decide what value it might have in order to be considered.

Someone asked if one was a slave to his brain.

My Answer: The brain is not something alien, separate from the SELF - as the question sounded.

Without the brain, you are nothing. With the brain, one is everything that one feels, thinks, experiences, etc. daily. Here, too, are all the aims that the SELF wants to achieve.

And this will of the SELF can more or less bring the brain into corresponding structures with its midpoints via their mechanics, with appropriate practice and a favorable psyche.

One could only speak of slavery here if one has a weak will, or a strong (wilful) aim suppresses other (healthy) aims.

Everything that one perceives, recognizes, absorbs, thinks about, what comes to mind, etc., can form aims that reinforce others or generate new ones. Each new target creates or amplifies synapses, neural networks that work to achieve that aim. Once an aim has formed, it can play a role in the psyche.

The brain is constantly learning - by strengthening or rebuilding the synapses.

That's why it's so important to stay flexible in the brain (this is of course also an aim).

When a target is activated, such as when you want to grab a glass, then a trained cluster that consists of neural networks acts. This includes various areas in the brain to accomplish this task: estimating the distance to the glass, the size, weight, muscle and strength needed to lift it, etc. This is a brain work that we take for granted appears and usually occurs without conscious perception.

 

When you observe two people who talk animatedly: how they speak, their body language, the facial expression, the changing of their eyes, etc., then you have to wonder what the brain (and only this one) can do and does. This all comes from midpoints that are more or less co-ordinated with each other. The consciousness (better: the perception) only sends information to the brain, which then integrates it in the behaviour according to its value.

As a rule, automatic, learned behaviours are used.

It is often forgotten that people are only living beings who have developed from inorganic substances and, like these, are shaped by laws.

The main difference between humans and other living beings is their brains, which are capable of forming exorbitant neural networks with which they can recognize laws and create new processes.

And - with which an infinite number of fantasy structures can be imagined.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How could one 

explain oneself...

 

altruism

 

anchor

 

atheist

 

attachment in children

 

Body-mind separation

 

Brain (and its “operational

 

secret")

 

Brain (how it works)

 

brain flexibility

 

Brain versus computer

 

chaos

 

chosen

 

consciousness (description)

 

conscience

 

common sense

 

Complexes

 

creativity / intuition

 

Descendants

 

De-escalation

 

depression

 

Determinism

 

distraction / priming

 

Dreams

 

Empathy / sympathy

 

fall asleep

 

fate

 

feelings (origin)

 

First impression

 

emotional perceptions (feelings and emotionality)

 

forget (looking for)

 

frame

 

Free will

 

freedom

 

frontal lobe

 

future

 

growth

 

gut feeling

 

Habits

 

Inheritance, Genetics, Epigenetics

 

Heuristics

 

How the world came into being

 

How values arise

 

Ideas (unintentional)

 

Immanuel Kant

 

Inheritance, Genetics, Epigenetics

 

karma

 

Love

 

Location of the goals

 

Meditation (relaxation)

 

Midpoint-mechanics (function and explanation)

 

Mind

 

Mirror neurons

 

near-death experiences

 

objective and subjective

 

Panic

 

perception

 

Perfection

 

placedos

 

prejudice

 

primordial structures

 

Prophecy, self-fulfilling

 

psyche (Definition and representation)

 

Qualia-Problem

 

Rage on oneself

 

See only black or white

 

sleep

 

the SELF (definition)

 

Self-control

 

[sense of] self-esteem

 

self-size

 

Similarities

 

Self-knowledge

 

soul / spirit

 

Substances and laws (definition)

 

Superstition

 

thinking

 

trauma

 

truth and faith

 

Values

 

yin and yang

 

 

What kind of reader would you characterize yourself as?

 

1. I can't understand this.

2. I don't want to understand that because it doesn't fit my own worldview. (So, not to the aims that created this.)

3. I use my cognitive abilities to understand it.

4. I has judged beforehand and thinks I alredy understands everything.