How to perceive the world

(Definition and explanation)

A not inconsiderable amount of scientists (and by extension the general public) continue to make the assumption - formed in ancient times by people who had no knowledge of the exact workings of the brain. Namely, that the environment sends stimuli that people's senses pick up and direct them to the inside of the brain, which uses them to recognize the world.

This is called the

Outside-in theory.

Much speculation has been made since then; but no one has been able to prove where and how this generally happens in the brain.

The

Inside-out theory

is an alternative.

This is based on the aims that shape people.

The sensors see the world from this point of view (they receive templates, so to speak, of what the world is like from the neural networks – which were formed according to aims in order to achieve them.)

If the sensors report that the world they perceive deviates from the templates, they send this to the neural networks, which adjust their view of the world if necessary.

This process can be clearly followed immediately:

• Template from the brain how the world looks like.

• This is compared by the sensors with the outside they perceive.

• If they recognize differences between these two, this is communicated to the neural networks.

With the inside-out theory one has no difficulty in showing the processes where and how this generally happens in the brain:

The world that living beings, including humans, perceive is one that results from the aims that neural networks have built up. (Just as after conception the body builds itself according to inherited goals, so does the psyche: these aims create neural networks in order to be reached.)

According to these, the sensors see the world. As soon as the inner world does not match the outer world, it is sent to the neural networks, which change their structures if necessary.

This is how man perceives the world according to his psychic aims.

‼ The world that shows itself to us is of course there first, but what people absorb from it is decided by the brain according to its aims. ‼

Even if you want to record everything that is around you, it always remains a matter of the limits of our senses and brain.

Wikipedia (definition): In living beings, perception is the process and the subjective result of information acquisition (reception) and processing of stimuli from the environment and from the body. This happens through unconscious (and sometimes conscious in humans) filtering and merging of partial information into subjectively meaningful overall impressions. These are also called precepts and are continuously compared with stored ideas (constructs and schemes).

► According to this definition, there would be the world first, which is created by filtering and merging partial information into subjectively meaningful overall impressions in living beings.

This raises the question: According to which directives are the filtering and merging of partial information carried out?

The answer could only be: Through the aims in the brain, which are focused by means of the sensors, which are focused by its values (aims) (i.e. where the attention should be directed).

► So, I think it's the other way around: that first the brain (the midpoints) has an approximate expectation about the world according to its aims. Then this is perceived by the senses selected in this way. Once this is done, inequalities in these two worlds (expectation and fact) are corrected by the brain in milliseconds when it feels right according to its aims.

First of all, you always see the world according to your habits, expectations, and ideas that are stored in your brain about aims. If it recognizes (because it is valuable) that it deviates from it, then the perception is adjusted accordingly. Aims learn or form a new – again initially according to the aims that one has inherited or learned, because only through them can one originally perceive the world.

There is no world as it actually and always is, but only one from the perspective of the respective observer.

Therefore, we do not see the world as it appears to be in front of us (that is, the same for everyone), but one that the brain shows us based on its aims.

Since every person has their own characteristic aims, they also see their own world, to which they react individually.

(By the way, since each species has its specific goals, the world sees them similarly).

Again: People can only perceive the world from the perspective of the respective observer.

Summarized:

Human beings see the world from their point of view. This results from the aims of the respective person. Namely from his currently active ones or especially from those currently additionally stimulated.

► The active aims shape the world into a structure that is needed to achieve them.

►  Depending on the value of the stimuli that are now activated, further aims are awakened, which additionally structure the view.

► So, there is ultimately no identical world that everyone sees the same, but many different, from the point of view of the respective aims.

And: intellect means to perceive something precisely, i.e. to understand it. You can only grasp what you have a system for.

(If one encounters something absolutely new, then of course one can also take in and grasp it - but, as I said, only according to one's predispositions aims). In this way, the new from the environment and inner field of the human being, from the brain, becomes his predispositions adjusted accordingly.

So, you absorb the world first through the aoms in yourself and then with the aligned senses – in that order.

The senses are constantly confronted with unfiltered stimuli (approx. 11 million bits per second), but they do not simply represent the world in front of us 1:1, but the brain selects them with its aims, which align the senses in such a way that they only perceive the information that fits the goals of the brain because it is important.

These million bits are not there to depict the environment precisely for us, but to compare the structures that arise after selection through our aims with those stored in the brain and, if necessary, to correct them by learning (changing synapses).

In general, then, man has his hereditary world in the head brain, the autonomic nervous system (plus the somatic nervous system) and the abdominal brain (enteric nervous system), along with those who have experiences and learning were built in him.

This is the reason why we each perceive the world differently and possibly wrongly; because we weren't in the right midpoints. (Wrong in relation hung that we have disadvantages, e.g., not respond appropriately.)

And since the selection by the aims also influences the storage of experiences in the brain, this can lead to incorrect information.

There is no world that is the same and unchangeable from every perspective.

And all perspectives of the macro or micro world result in the sentences:

• Identical substances under identical circumstances always give identical results.

• The reason for this is that everything is subject to unchangeable laws.

• If you change substances or circumstances, then other laws also appear.

If you turn 180 degrees in a strange environment, it takes milliseconds before you consciously perceive what is in front of you.

This attaches to the brain: First, the general perception occurs according to its expectations. (If there are no specific ones, it looks for similarities). Depending on the extent to which this does not match what is in front of you, it is corrected if it is relevant.

The aim of orientation requires data from the senses to clarify whether and to what extent the world shown by the brain may deviate from reality in order to be able to adapt. This takes milliseconds. (The aim of orientation is a central aim in living beings).

Recognition also takes place through aims; one recognizes what was stored in the brain. This is also where the reason for confusion can be found (because the brain searches for similarities).

The selected stimuli may change existing neuronal networks in the brain or generate new ones if aims (midpoints) in the psyche consider this to be important. If the stimuli show more or less strong differences from what has been stored up to now, it is adjusted.

By means of the senses, which send information to the brain via attention, this is always up to date - if the aims of perception are not restricted too much by certain (rigid) midpoints.

Without new information from the senses, the brain is virtually blind - and only acts according to the previous information it had stored - as happens in a dream.

Regarding knowledge, individual things are not important. It all depends on the aim. If this is to look at details, only then will these be particularly perceived. But when it comes to saving the overall impression, then you perceive it as a whole.

The perception of music can serve as an example: You perceive the whole and not the individual instruments, because that is not the aim. (The whole thing is to perceive the feeling of music). The perception of individual devices would cloud the perception, because it could lead to other central points and be distracted.

This is exactly how you absorb everything in daily life from your goals. And that's how you see the world.

If something is no longer correct (e.g., something dangerous appears) then a target is activated in order to perceive it specifically. This suddenly puts you in a different focus. This is also recorded holistically and creates a different pattern in the brain.

Again: How and with what a room is filled is initially not important as long as one is aiming to perceive this room. Only when you look more closely through other aims do they gain value.

Conclusion: the brain always absorbs holistically. The stimulated aims can change the topics quickly.