THIS IS WHERE WE ARE STARTING FROM
I have been researching the brain for over thirteen years now and still I only can realise just how little we know about our human brain and our individual mind. Our brains are our species brains, developed over millions of years , we have to consider that it is most likely that our species brains are very similar in their inherited abilities, considering research that proves every one living today is related directly to one woman living in Africa over two hundred thousand years ago now proven by DNA testing.
Allowing five generations per one hundred years that is one million generations of evolutionary history, where each of us has a proven connection, further research identifies the fact that our modern brain was already around, forty to fifty thousand years ago, given obvious physical differences which can be explained from evolving within differing physical conditions , and that children can be produced from any combination of human beings from all corners of the earth. I consider it is highly likely that our human brains are very similar concerning their physical abilities.
The physical common ability to use language and simply teach ourselves the non technical structures of language give ever indication that this is so.
It was from an instantaneous realisation that children could rapidly acquire a very early grasp, of simple arithmetic and a firm understanding of the way we use the decimal system, to build easily understood patterns of numbers, at very early ages, simply by repeated physical experience with an Abacus, that brought me to examine how these abilities to learn anything and everything we humans can achieve, given time and experience so quickly.
I asked myself the question how do we manage to do everything we can do. In order to understand just how quickly we can learn something , and examine whether or not we can all learn everything so quickly, that my research into human and animal brain function began.
There are two areas where we can gain insight into how the brain works. Directly studying human behaviour and trying to rationalise it, along side reading about brain research and trying to rationalise experimental findings and researchers hypothesise, regarding the
First of all let us first consider our conscious mind, just how many things are we aware of consciously. You will consider with your conscious mind everything you can remember from everything that you have read and learnt in any other manner.
What we are not aware of is the knowledge we contain within our subconscious brain. Our subconscious brain ability is far in excess of our conscious brain Ability.
To understand this, one simply has to understand that our subconscious brain is required to work without making mistakes. Our subconscious brain is in charge of all the physical abilities. Clearly therefore it is following our conscious requirements whenever it possible can, for instance we consciously chose which way we want to walk and at what speed we want walk , unless some other necessity is signalled to the subconscious brain consciously, even avoidance of objects in our way are taken care of subconsciously. We are therefore never totally in charge of what we are doing physically. In the case of sudden danger our subconscious brain will have already made the decision as to just what to do and be carrying it out before our conscious brain is hardly aware of it.
So there is an overriding control system acting to protect our welfare when we have made a conscious mistake within some or other physical activity.
So also you may then ask just who is in charge of yourself, obviously when ever danger threatens and action is needed your subconscious brain acts independently taking stock of as many other factors as it possibly can.
Ok your next question should be “if things are so well looked after between the subconscious and conscious brain” why does anyone need to know anything about it .
Obviously we have managed our human affairs without knowing everything or very little about our brain function for thousands of years, philosophers throughout our recorded history and most likely thousands of years before any recorded history was available, will have puzzled with the same questions that have kept me engrossed for over a quarter of my adult lifetime.
Just how can we, the only mammals on earth that can speak, achieve so much so slowly when our closest animal pet, the dog can hunt for itself at ten weeks of age, what is the difference between human beings and the rest of the worlds mammals .
Not many animals can walk on two legs no others have a discernable language that we have decoded even after hundreds of thousands of years.
For millions of years we have evolved along similar mammalian lines adapting to our environment utilising four legs but eventually we walked on two legs and developed language.
It is language that has made us different, language that has created our advanced abilities, language that allows me to explain directly to my child what I think and mans development of written language that enables one man to speak to all men.
The most important language of all has always been numerical and only within the last two thousand years have every race on earth utilised one standard set of symbols (only 10) utilising one pattern to create standard multiplication or division of ONE
Our ingenuity knows no bounds our abilities are without any conceivable limit when we combine our knowledge and areas of expertise together. What makes us so special? The inherited facility to remember virtually everything we ever see (In a positive or negative term) we all share this ability to recall “ as images in action” the things we have seen or heard of that are vital to us.
The positive memories are those we utilise consistently in explanation or consideration of ideas and concepts, the negative or passive memories return when we revisit something we may have only seen once or herd of imperfectly.
We use language to give explanation of ideas and concepts that are vital to us, store ideas as images in action and recall those ideas quite naturally again in spontaneous language, created at will subconsciously, only where further explanation is so complicated as to develop deeper explanation which may be required or that we intend to specifically mislead others, do we pass the words being utilised through our conscious mental processing chamber, we call it our MIND that ability to process information we use to reason with. I consider the mind to be singular, impossible to replicate, simply because of our ability to understand language, can we then utilise our massive natural memory abilities of what we see hear and think.
Simply because of our unlimited memory ability and the advanced processing abilities this gives us when combined with the physical ability to copy however imperfectly at first any physical procedures perfected by others which then allows us to eventually to do most things within the range of other humans.
Given the will and the training.
We all posses natural memory and the ability to copy.