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05-13-07, 11:35 PM
Hello. I am Kaleb, from Georgia, America. Over time, especially recently, I have been contemplating the human mind from a scientific viewpoint, rather than a moreso philosophical or religious one. From this, I have gained much truth and much subsequent pain, and yet also enjoyment in the journey. I would like to convey these conclusions with you, if you would receive them.
I have come to conclude that, as many scientists posit, the human brain is essentially simply an extremely advanced, organic computer, with nature as it's programmer, math as it's processor, and memory as RAM, I would think. Thought is simply the brain's processing/utilization of information gathered from experience or instincts, or else devised by the brain's logic system of comparison to form new knowledge by oneself, or through discussion and those sorts of speculative practices. This human brain derives ultimately from the very first brains, whatever had them; at that time obviously they were quite simpler than the human brain is, accepting evolution. But, over time, through the devout devotion of nature towards the survival of life, the brain changed and adapted to promote better survival of it's host, just as bodies develop, and indeed why the brain came around at all in the first place. Over the millenia, brains developed as with the rest of life, coming eventually to the brains other primates possess, then to our closest relatives, and then to our human brains. We needed these brains to survive in our bodies, whether because of the weakness of our bodies or because of the specific advanced nature of our bodies depending on who you ask. In both my opinion and Stephen Hawking's, as can be seen in his book The Universe in a Nutshell, the most important invention by/for humanity has been information stored outside of our body, in the form of written/recorded information. Before this, the only method of recording, sharing and transmission, as well as advancement, of information has been DNA, which took millions of years to change, and was subject to sharp randomness in it's process of changing, unlike human-recorded information. With the latter, the only change it takes is that which we give it. This is simply an extension of our computer brain. Just as computers can burn information onto a disc, our brain can, using our body as a computer uses lasers, record knowledge onto the world.
When a human being is born, they are the most empty-minded animal, as Carl Sagan pointed out in his book Dragons of Eden. We only have instincts, and very little of them. Other animals' brains are essentially full when they're born; they adapt and learn very little. Other mammals, especially other primates, are more similar to us than are other animals, but not nearly so as we are in this fashion. During our early childhood, from about birth to five years, the human brain takes in information at an absolutely extraordinary rate. Picking up information directed or undirected at it, the child's brain becomes individual during this period, with each child taking in life from a different viewpoint/standpoint. From about age five, when the child's memory and thus knowledge base becomes more concrete, the child has their personality set, and lives their life as their individual self from then on; gaining, but remaining themself. Emotion is instinctual, although it is processed by the conditioned brain the child receives during this early period throughout the person's life. In childhood, the computer brain is programmed, and from then on the processor uses this. The brain learns of course, but it's hardware is given at this time, as well as the most basic software programs, and knowledge acquired later in the person's life, as well as every experience and thought the person has from then on, is seen through the eyes of their childhood programming, and, as with a computer hardware but even more so, it is difficult to reprogram (not remove) an individual's basic hardware/software programming, and hence the difficult of getting one to see life objectively.
I hope you all enjoy my post. I enjoyed writing and creating it! Thank you for your patience. :)
I have come to conclude that, as many scientists posit, the human brain is essentially simply an extremely advanced, organic computer, with nature as it's programmer, math as it's processor, and memory as RAM, I would think. Thought is simply the brain's processing/utilization of information gathered from experience or instincts, or else devised by the brain's logic system of comparison to form new knowledge by oneself, or through discussion and those sorts of speculative practices. This human brain derives ultimately from the very first brains, whatever had them; at that time obviously they were quite simpler than the human brain is, accepting evolution. But, over time, through the devout devotion of nature towards the survival of life, the brain changed and adapted to promote better survival of it's host, just as bodies develop, and indeed why the brain came around at all in the first place. Over the millenia, brains developed as with the rest of life, coming eventually to the brains other primates possess, then to our closest relatives, and then to our human brains. We needed these brains to survive in our bodies, whether because of the weakness of our bodies or because of the specific advanced nature of our bodies depending on who you ask. In both my opinion and Stephen Hawking's, as can be seen in his book The Universe in a Nutshell, the most important invention by/for humanity has been information stored outside of our body, in the form of written/recorded information. Before this, the only method of recording, sharing and transmission, as well as advancement, of information has been DNA, which took millions of years to change, and was subject to sharp randomness in it's process of changing, unlike human-recorded information. With the latter, the only change it takes is that which we give it. This is simply an extension of our computer brain. Just as computers can burn information onto a disc, our brain can, using our body as a computer uses lasers, record knowledge onto the world.
When a human being is born, they are the most empty-minded animal, as Carl Sagan pointed out in his book Dragons of Eden. We only have instincts, and very little of them. Other animals' brains are essentially full when they're born; they adapt and learn very little. Other mammals, especially other primates, are more similar to us than are other animals, but not nearly so as we are in this fashion. During our early childhood, from about birth to five years, the human brain takes in information at an absolutely extraordinary rate. Picking up information directed or undirected at it, the child's brain becomes individual during this period, with each child taking in life from a different viewpoint/standpoint. From about age five, when the child's memory and thus knowledge base becomes more concrete, the child has their personality set, and lives their life as their individual self from then on; gaining, but remaining themself. Emotion is instinctual, although it is processed by the conditioned brain the child receives during this early period throughout the person's life. In childhood, the computer brain is programmed, and from then on the processor uses this. The brain learns of course, but it's hardware is given at this time, as well as the most basic software programs, and knowledge acquired later in the person's life, as well as every experience and thought the person has from then on, is seen through the eyes of their childhood programming, and, as with a computer hardware but even more so, it is difficult to reprogram (not remove) an individual's basic hardware/software programming, and hence the difficult of getting one to see life objectively.
I hope you all enjoy my post. I enjoyed writing and creating it! Thank you for your patience. :)