Is the brain Analog or digital??!!!!!!
“It’s as if everyone thought communication in the brain was like a telegraph, but actually it turned out to be more similar to a telephone,”
Depression
البكاء شعور اجتماعي يتضمن في أساسه إيصال معنى طلب العون ممن حولك لأنه تعبير بالوجه الذي يرجع البعض انحسار الشعر عنه خلافا للحيوانات الأخري لغرض التواصل بتعابير الوجه.البكاء وغيره سلوكيات تدافع بها نفس الإنسان عما يهاجمها
الإكتئاب فشل في الدفاع قد يصل إلى فشل وظيفي عام
Depression is a failed defensive response that may become a more generalized failure
Locus Coeruleus
knowledge as a software
Two main forms of information..
knowledge: rearranging previous information units
Feeling: introduction of new units
Knowledge is the software of the feeling(the hardware).
Locus-coeroleus
Hippocampus..a further place in processing
"unlike other senses, space is not analyzed by a specialized sensory organ"
"Unlike vision, touch or smell, which are pre-wired and based on Kantian a priori knowledge, the spatial maps presents us with a new type of presentation, one based on a combination of a priori knowledge and learning. The general capability for forming spatal maps is built into mind but the particular map is not. Unlike neurons in a sensory system , place cells are not switched on by sensory stimulation. Their collective activity represents the location where the animal thinks he is"
Eric R. Kandel from " In Search Of Memory"
Creativity..an ordinary routine in the nervous system
Cambridge definition of "Creative" is "producing or using original and unusual ideas",but actually while the definition denotes that creation is an unusual act the nervous system propably tells something little different.With a closer look to the way the nervous system formulate a behavioral output one can realy become persuaded that maybe every single behavior whatever it is may includes a considerable part of creation within it, actually with a broader philosophical view one can consider that behavior is equal to creativity.
Back with the story to its beginning. The single major difference between animals generaly and plants is the ability of the animal to respond to external stimulus by inducing a change(a behavior) in the environment of a benefit to it.This is the mere function of the nervous system "to make a change for the sake of a better outcome".
Man is for sure included in this generic view, and actually the human nervous system has specialized broadening the domain of the available changes. In a place just behind the forehead some part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, this part of the brain is responsible for preparing for the behavioral output of man.This part of the brain do its amazing job in a way that ensures that every single previous experience is abstracted from its context and reformulated in a new context suitable to be produced by the behaving person.
This very amazing process occurs while the artist draws his portrait, during a brain storming session held by some quantum physicists and during a novel writer imagination of some new novel, but in fact..this also occurs while one walks along the street, while a mother prepares dinner for her children and even when a boy kicks a small rusty cola can in the street.
Actually with some few scientifc exceptions it can be said that "Creation is the default status of human behavioral output"..we may become astonished by the creativity in thinking about the relativity theory or that of the Sydne's opera house, this great creation really influenced our daily living, but also even if theoreticaly and not consciously the little boy kicking the empty cola may have some creation in this simple behavior.
The nervous system does such magic "creation" according to its estimation to the facing problem and according to the "trainable" ability to abstract from the previous experience and reformulate it in a unique new way that can be termed creative by Cambrdige or any other dictionary. The more influencing the idea is and the more of a benefit to the person who originally thought about it the more it is termed creative..people who think in more beneficial or novel issues usually develops ideas termed creative by other people.Maybe the best creative output Einstein's brain made was not the relativity theory and it may be some motion that prevented him from a very dangerous fall or a rapid car in the street, but such creative thought was not of a benefit except for him in contrast to the relativity theory we all benefited from.
Every single person with a normal functioning nervous system is cabable of producing unique thoughts, ideas and acts but this depends upon what things he considers his facing problems and how he is acustomed to deal with it in the light of previous experience, his thoughts will be unique because of his unique preious experience and it is of some benefit determined by its novelty and value to the people in his culture.
Representation Vs determination
لا ترجح شيئا طالما لا يوجد ضرورة للإختيار..نصيحة من الفص الأيمن للمخ
Do not have a choice where it is not required to choose..live the representational amazement..where everything is possible.
locus-coeroleus
Clever people and Faith
Al-jazeera
DAily Telegraph
The previous link is about an article linking between increment in cleverness and decrease in faith and beleiving in Allah SWT.
This is how I see this particualr issue.
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Wetern components of the human intellect are,1)a mind, which is the logic machine and 2)a heart which is a box of emotions.
both components in modern culture are separate from each other and interactions between both is considered as some sort error from the one who exerts such interaction, an example for such errors is applying emotions in the logic stream.
Actually I see this structure imperfect and sometimes leads to conflicts and examples for such conflicts are abundant and the previous link is considered as one of those.I have no clues for such imperfectness except observation of the humanbeing, that suggestes that both components must interact together at all levels and that the components definitions is not that accurate:
Evidence suggesting the essentiality of the link between the components:
1)If it is only a matter of logic then the following should not happen:
a)All people must be on one religion or even without religion..because every religion says that it is the true one, then one only must be true or non of them..and by using the logic machine on this dilemma only one answer will be true and then all people will follow it..and this practically never happened.
b)By the same principle, there should not be laeft and right, communism and capitalism etc. as only one is more right and the other is less right, but what we see is that followers of one side says that the other side is (LOGICALLY wrong and they lack the proper thinking) i.e they do not have a well logic machine.
2)Neurobiology:
The central nervous system can be defined as the system that mediates the achievment of internal needs(internal environment) according to the external environment.
The sensation is the external input to the system and the behavior is the output, the behavioral output is shaped to achieve the needs according to the available realtime input (sensation) and previous input (experience and memory).In humanbeings; thinking is a member in the behavioral output system and hence it must be shaped by the needs at all levels, restricting such interaction to the basic levels only is a naive approach to the understanding of behavior and nervous system in general(but this is the case in modern culture).An example for such interaction on a very high level of thinking is the "morals and ethics", walking nude in the street is not logically wrong, treating the old people and young people the same is not logically wrong, and on religious side; nonbelievers are do not accept the religion (logically as they beleive) because they refuse the concept of being slaves(what is called "Keber").
Definiton probelm of the components:
In modern neuroscience the concept of the mind as a separate entity or as an organ does not exist and there is no localization for such concept in the brain, instead it is considered as function that is being maintained by the nervous system. Mind is not an organ, mind is a function. Being a function requires that the concept of mind being withdrawn from its separate isolation from other components i.e cancels the "logic machine" concept, as every single step by this machine must be working in harmony with the other divisions of the nervous system processing.
the interaction of the mind side with the emotional side, together with neurobilogical perspective, the heart and emotions can be seen as a real director to one's behavior, if we consider the human intellect as a mathematical vector, the heart will be the angle(direction) it and the mind will be the amplitude of this vector.
All this requires a reformulation to the intellect componets and structure other than the modern one.The modern structure reflects what do we like to see ourselves and not what we really are, this is a famous frequent mistake in modern history.I really consider the Islamic perspective to this issue "the Qura'anic intellect structure".
To be continued..
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