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Midpoint-mechanics

CP and I went for a walk around the lake Alster in Hamburg.

"Why do aims in your scriptures play such a central role?" CP wanted to know.

"Well, because they structure everything, put it in a shape: Everything has the aim to form a structure according to the laws.

Let's take the human being: The midpoint is the shape that makes an aim out of a person.

While everything in the universe is shaped by aims that are 'no matter' to the implications of their intended structure, the aim of conservation is added to living beings. These conservation aims are formed in the brain by networks of neurons, which are connected via synapses and which, as I said, I call 'midpoints'.

Depending on the species and individual, the living beings are designed by them.

So, midpoints are made up of neurons distributed far the brain, forming a network that serves to create attitudes, actions, ideas, feelings, and so on. Each midpoint it's an aim that allows for everything that suits to achieve it, paying little or no attention to anything else." 

It is very rare for only one midpoint to act; mostly, various are included that are suitable to achieve the goal. "

"Then the midpoint is a key to understanding human beings?"

"Yes - of all living beings. To reach an aim, you have to go one way. If you want to express 'way' more broadly, then you can say: you need a structure. And indeed, the way in the environment must be structured and of course the person who wants to achieve this aim. Everything that could contribute to this structure and is tangible at the moment is taken into account by the aim - everything else remains unused.

For example, if you focus heavily on reaching an aim, you will realize afterwards that he has not noticed anything else. Only what suited his purpose.

One comes closer to oneself each time one recognizes in which midpoint one was."

"I understood it that way," CP summarized: "A midpoint wants to be realized. This requires a specific structure. This is created from what is relevant, everything else is disregarded. Should something be disturbing, it is reduced in value, so it can make people much less".

I nodded. "This lowering of the other values does not happen willingly, but mechanically. It is a legal process, that's why I called it 'midpoint-mechanics'."

"It is not deliberately suppressed, but it happens automatically through the midpoint?"

"An example: On March 24, 2015, a pilot in a passenger plane flew into suicide. He steered the plane against a huge rock. He tore all 150 inmates to death.

What happened in the head of this person?"

"He has supplanted everything else," CP concluded.

"Imagine that you're focusing your attention on something you do not want to admit. This makes this something stronger because you are dealing with it (you are so in the midpoint of it, you are shaped by it). With repression, you get exactly the opposite of what you want, to put something aside. "

"But it is also said, 'One displaces something when something unconsciously continues to act.'"

“That is also incorrect in the true sense of the word. It is reduced in value from other midpoints so that it is no longer perceived, but can continue to work in the unconscious. – However, not if a current midpoint is very strong.

The answer to what was going on in the co-pilot’s head is the midpoint- mechanics: The aim is to take his own life, sat all other midpoints worth reduced or zero - the impending impact of the mountains, the 150 people who were on board and had to die with him, their relatives who suffered the loss, etc.

On the one hand, it's frightening what midpoints can do, such as the incredible atrocities of the Nazi regime or inhumane acts that virtually all nations have perpetrated. "

"Or what individual people did to others," added CP.

"Yes. On the other hand, it's nice what midpoints can do. For example, the love to enter for humans or other living beings.

By the way: This also explains the essence of mediation: Here, a midpoint is formed, which becomes stronger with the time and the intensity and amount of the exercises and lowers all other midpoints in value.

As a rule, of course, there is not only one midpoint in the psyche, but many who complement each other, inhibit or only partially play along. They can act together, form mega-nets (clusters), for example, to ensure repetitive processes, integrate into new ones, find themselves together for specific actions.

As adaptation is a central theme for life, new midpoints are always forming.

Here's an example of how midpoints work: People like to argue about whether humans can be altruistic. Surely, he can, because: If he is in the midpoint of helping others, then the midpoints of selfishness, which are actually strong aims in humans, can be eliminated.

However, in the strict sense, there is no selflessness because the aim is to satisfy one's own feelings. "

"What can one do to avoid a midpoint, not to be a slave?"

"Beat him with his own weapons: choose another midpoint or create something new."

"How do you best achieve an aim?"

"By reinforcing the midpoint: paying attention only to what is important to the aim.

If that is not enough, then a new target can be formed that includes more neuron groups, which are automatically selected for how well they might contribute to the solution.

Again, you can see the selection principle of the midpoint.

In addition, similarities in other areas are searched for each aim. Whether there is experience, or by logic, such as the exclusion process, whether solutions are suitable for the problem. And rejects all offered 'solutions' that are illogical in the experience, not fit to achieve this aim or nothing similar to the one to a similarity Theme in common. "

"So, aims are the mainsprings?"

"As often as you investigate, you will always meet aims that have driven, structured the human being.

They can seriously change our perception: through the midpoint-mechanics.

Imagine a tremendous amount of aims that are interconnected. "

"You mean the brain."

"Yes, the neurons that are in contact with each other through the synapses. There are about 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses in the brain. Neurons form networks to perform certain functions.

Everything in the brain runs according to laws. The brain creates the midpoints and these structures the human. "

We sat down on a bench and watched the sailboats cruising the Alster. It was a wonderful day.

"The midpoint means the world that is created to reach an aim," explained Phil Osof.

"An aim creates a world?"

"To achieve an aim, you need a structure. The midpoint is designed and is this structure. He evaluates the world and the people and puts together what is useful for achieving the aim. Everything else is more or less shielded."

"You think the midpoint is the facts that are interesting for the aim? And brings the people and the world in the appropriate form? "Peter hooked.

"The midpoint is the shape that makes an aim of a human.

He structures the perception of the outer world and of oneself. He chooses what he finds and thinks it has value for the aim. He gives shape to the world. "

"That really sounds like," Peter said, "as if through the midpoint a new world would emerge."

"That's right," Phil Osof nodded. "He's redesigning. This can go so far that you cannot see things as they were, because they are totally re-evaluated.

The midpoint can be like a sorcerer, changing everything with lightning speed. This is how a new world is created. This gives rise to freedom, meaning that one does not perceive much, or only perceives it marginally. At the same time, however, one is also trapped in the midpoint and no longer sees many things. It only comes to the fore, which is important. Everything else goes by, so to speak, suddenly has no value. "

"So, is the midpoint at the same time freedom and prison?" Peter wondered.

"That's the way to express it."

So, "midpoint" is what you call the perceptual world of living beings?” "he wanted to know.

"Yes, the world- and the self-perception. What and how creatures perceive depends on their aims, or in other words: we (our brains) do not simply model the world in ourselves, but create a world of perception based on our aims and the particular spectrum of our senses. The amount of information that comes from the world, but that we ultimately shape ourselves from our human perspective and can only capture within our intake corridors, must be selected. This will get the midpoints. They choose what fits the aims."

"I remember once saying, 'Everything is aligned with aims.'"

Osof nodded again. "Living beings are controlled exclusively by aims. There is nothing that does not originate in it. "

One more question came to Peters mind: "But is not the world actually what it is? How can she be so different and suddenly different?"

“When the aims change, the substances change. Because different substances are needed for each goal. And when they change, the world also changes because it is composed of substances. "

"From the human point of view," I interjected.

"Yes. But ultimately, what we see is always from the point of view of human beings."

"Then there is really no 'world in itself'?", I was curious.

"Yes - of course, the objective world can be depicted using photography, for example, because the subjective influences are not present here at first.

Beyond that, however, there are only views of it from the living beings. Every living entity sees her differently, from what is important to him. And this view shapes his world and himself. The world is not a rigid entity, but a 'something' that can be seen infinitely varied by the living beings. And there are as many worlds as there are living things "

"That would mean that we ourselves make the world that we see through our aims."

"It is exactly like that”.

"You say that a camera can image the world objectively?"

“Yes, depending on the setting (distance, resolution, special perspectives). However, the camera can only take a snapshot with it.

By the way: Without midpoints there would be no demarcation, without them no structures - and of course no life, because no figures could form in the world. The midpoints are the central factor of life. "

"Still," I shook my head, "I think the world is what it is, and we need to adapt, so shape it."

"Of course," Osof replied.

"But is not that a contradiction?" Peter wondered. "What do you think makes the world or us the world?"

“First of all, our brain shapes the world according to its aims - compares them with what it has holistically stored. When differences arise that it sees with its (enhanced) senses (and these differences have a certain value), then it learns.

Peter considered. “So, we see them according to our values (aims). And since everyone has their own individual aims, those of their group, their country and those of the respective community of values, this is how they see the world. "

"Exactly," nodded Osof.

‼ The world that shows itself to us is there first.

But what a person sees or perceives from this, the brain decides according to its aims.‼

Max Wertheimer: "There are connections in which not everything that happens as a whole derives from the way in which the individual pieces are composed, but conversely, where - in a pertinent case - what happens in a part of this whole, determined by internal structural laws of this his whole ".

When differences occur (and they have a certain value), the midpoints learn. 

So, it can also absorb something totally new, if e.g., the aim of life is threatened."

"And we always only see the world that selects our aims, put together?"

"Yes," nodded Phil Osof, "that's how we make the world, we can only see it from a human perspective."

"That was an exhaustive information," CP thanked. "How did Phil Osof get to the mechanics of the midpoints?"

"Well, you can only come to that if you realize that everything is designed according to aims. And aims need certain structures in order to be achieved. Everything that could not contribute is ignored.

An example: A question arises on a complex topic. You find an answer. As a result, you usually no longer include all the factors that could be considered for this question, but only those factors that support the answer you have decided on.”

"Does that mean that the midpoint changes due to the determination?"

"Yes, first you were in the midpoint, which takes into account all the essential facts, then only those who supported your own opinion were seen."

"If you don't get the answer right, it would be a threat to the right answer," GP concluded.

"Exactly, all other essential factors are suddenly no longer taken into account."

"These are really interesting examples of how midpoint mechanics work," GP concluded thoughtfully.