Saturday, September 22, 2012

What consumes your mind, Controls your mind!




Human brain process information like a supercomputer, but all the activity that goes on within is not understood by a man, unless he is a Neuroscientist.

but for a layman like me who likes to simplify things to the extent that they become distorted, i would say
Left brain processes our Ideas, Intuitions and Inferences.
While Right Brain mainly handles our Feelings and Emotions for us, which inturn stimulate outputs from left Brain.

So people who follow their heart are just people with dominating right brain. (as i see myself in the mirror)
and i would also like to assume that a person's ability to think increases exponentially with his ability to feel. Because a child is never born with thinking capacities, initially he just developes feelings for his experiences and then as the experiences increase in intensity so does his his ability to feel and thus his ability to think.

Outputs of the Brain that emerges to us as our inferences, ideas or intuition are the genuine art of an individual brain which usually (excluding Plagiarists) is a processed result of intensive input we put in the form of Inspiration, Imagination, Creativity. processing in the brain works on logic and predeveloped ideas, inferences and intuitions. one more interesting feature of ideas is that once they are developed inside the brain , they remain there only in one form or another (opinions), so the brain is never parted from 'brainchildren'.

so, inspiration, dedication or imagination can be figuretively called fuel to the brain - the Production unit for Ideas. but does brain produces its own fuel?

I would rather believe that inspiration, dedication or imagination are nothing but 'Myriads of Emotions' or 'Clusters of Feelings'. I believe so because everyday i see Men being driven by Emotions and Feelings (while some men may even seem not driven at all, its again because of Emotions or Feelings).

Majority of primary processes going on in our head are just feelings , Good Ones, Awesome Ones, Exhilerating Ones, Burning ones, Sad ones, Sour Ones, etc.
They are so prominent because we are living these emotions by expressing them. These expressions in turn are used by those around us to characterize us as an individual.
But in the Systematic Universe, stuff is always going around in cycles, so are our experiences, feelings, ideas, and expressions. Our Expressions usually come back to us as experiences when the social universe reflects your words or actions to you. vaguely similar to the way in which feelings promulgate ideas, Expressions promulgate Experiences in the Social Universe. Outputs (Expressions) become Inputs (Experiences) in this cycle of Intellectual Enrichment or Knowledge Refinement going constantly in about 7 billion Personalities almost all the time. while half of this cycle goes on in Brain, half of it lies in the Social Universe.

Modern Lifestyles may have dubbed 'Experience' as a tiresome word. But indeed it is the most effortless and one of the most beautiful Verb in the dictionary. Life is just a 'collage of experiences' in your memory, always.
But some Experiences are radical, they change the way you think, and these radical experiences can be of 2 types - 'Experiences of Virtue' and 'Experiences of Vice'.

'Experiences of Vice' are the Experiences prohibited by Moral Police, and extorted by Civil Police all over the world. The problem with these experiences is they tend to dominate over a person's preferences or choices by creating a vaccum in processing of brain, thereby disturbing the usual process of experiencing which disrupts the entire process of Intellectual Enrichment. The vaccum created needs to be filled by Reinforcing, Reinflicting and Re-enacting the 'Experiences of Vice' which will further damage the cycle of learning for the concerned. further more the cycle of learning (multidimensional) converts to the cycle of obsession (unidimensional).

Now most of us have experienced the cycle of obsession as we frequently browse through feelings like Security, Defiance and Pride. These feelings dont stimulate the left brain in any way. They are the smallest among the 'experiences of vice'. These experiences when enter the cycle of 'intellectual enrichment' tend to create 'ideas of vice', thereafter 'expressions of vice' which further result in more 'experiences of vice' gifted by the social universe. and in this way, the brain is consumed, unable to funtion on its own, processing only 'the vice' by its logic and pre-existing opinions generated just after being introduced to the vice. The vice grows stronger after undergoing every progressing cycle of intellectual degradation in this case.

Let us Think about control with reference to our brains. our right brain virtually is invisible, we dont even know if its there, because we still think that its the heart giving us these crazy ideas. Something as abstract as the right brain cannot be controlled. but by choosing your experiences wisely, wisdom of intellectual character can be envisaged. Logic too is hard to change, and  difficult to control. but we can easily control the outputs of right brain entering as inputs into the left brain. we always tend to process the emotions that we dwelve in. As one cannot be sad and think of exceeding ideas. We think only what we feel like and we feel likewise how we are treated and we are treated as we treat others. so how we treat others determine how we think. so, in a way the social universe controls atleast 50% of the brain, rest 50% of control stays with the individual, provided the control on self is coded in morality otherwise dominating or radical ideas  (brainchildren) resulting from radical experiences, develop into strong opinions requiring intellectual defence. Creating this Intellectual Defence requires extensive thought and flow of ideas from left brain to right brain opposite to the Natural scheme of functioning of brain. this way ideas control the way you feel, contrary to basic order of functioning - feelings promoting the ideas.

hence Ideas have 3 Stages of development

- initially, ideas tend to commit us.
- then they tend to consume us.
- finally they tend to control us

Ideas therefore should be worn like clothes, suiting our feelings. Afterall feelings are what humans can hold on to throughout their lives.
Fundamentalists are different from humans in this regard. they hang on to their ideas and use feelings as the suiting for their ideas.


Knowing about goodness is more important than being or trying to be good because our intent tends to get carried away, and yet we couldn't afford to lose balance. Quality of life increases only when your brain is Experiencing rather than Being Consumed.


- Inspired by what my Mother taught me, the crux of the philosophy of being Human!

Connecting the Dots

Before being a believer, you are human. You gotta believe in yourself, before you start to believe in anything else that pleases you.   

According to me, humans over the huge course of time have found the answer to every question ever wondered. What yet stops us from reaching the Pinnacle of our existence is connecting the dots.

Over the course of history people from all over the world have studied the universe (universe is an indicative word for whatever that is outside the confines of your body) from various different viewpoints first from a 'Cosmological Viewpoint' that established the existence of a Superhuman Ulterior Being and then from a 'Scientific Viewpoint' that established Humans as the only Ulterior Beings of the Universe. Although humans are still struggling to take that giant leap of faith in themselves, but that doesn't undermines our greatness at all.

We have discovered, all that was there to discover except some stringent corners of universal reality. I would say this was the self realization phase of humanity and what lies ahead of us is living up to that potential of being those Superhuman Ulterior Beings which we used to believe in. I guess its time we start awarding ourselves (humanity in totality) some respect and aim for the impossible.

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Human After All



our religions explained humanity perfectly some 2000 years back.. but then people forgot the fact that Humanity can Evolve.
hence the need for self discovery of mankind is essential and now that human evolution (qualitatively and quantitavily) is taking place quite rapidly compared to last centuary, we need to rediscover humanity to eliminate our differences. humanity for the past 5000 years have been a positive force in earth's biosphere but now it poises a sincere threat of self destruction, along with elimination of the gift of life given to planet earth.


i percieve humanity at micro and macro levels consist of Characters.
so i asked myself, what can be the basic characters of humanity?

i pondered and came up with 6 unique characters consistent with both 'humanity at large' and 'humanity at individual levels'.

1. Physical Character
2. Intellectual Character
3. Fighting Character
4. Loving Character
5. Dark Character
6. Spiritual Character

and they are present as concentric layers one within the other. spiritual character though the point of origin of it all(soul), is the smallest and is directly engulfed within the dark character. that according to me is the very reason why in the epic war of good and evil, evil always have an edge.
since we are trying to find out about humanity we need to know that it exists as persons, communities, societies, countries and an animal species that goes by the name Homo Sapiens. Humanity is an abstract concept, Our personalities are personification of humanity, which consists of these characters in various proportions. they are the building blocks for all the diversity found in our personalities for they emerge in different proportions. what we do all our lives is creating these characters within us by learning and adapting. and while we shape our characters 3 forces might act on them.

1. External forces (from our environment) which tend to shape up our physical and intellectual character heavily and rest 4 characters only mildly..
2. Emotional Forces these are internal forces that need stimulus from the environment. (so.. yes they are complex by their very nature!). They affect our fighting and loving characters heavily and rest 4 mildly.
3. Internal Forces are our individual ingenuity. for humanity in its smallest manifestations (persons) tends to evolve at a large extent, these forces are basically representing humanity as having a good or bad character. they influence our dark and spiritual Characters heavily and rest 4 mildly.

this means humanity is a system consisting of 6 components and being driven by 3 forces (energies).
how many personalities can be created by this system? infinite.
to know humanity, one needs to study personalities.
every individual forms his own personality, every society forms its own personality, every country has a personality. a personality which is unique because different forces act on their different characters differently.

but why humanity is now at risk?
diversification of humanity in various personalities may sound like development. but if you think that if something as abstract as humanity has to die out, how will it happen?
well if humanity is disintegrated into fragments by diversification of personalities and these diverse personalities evolve into something even bigger than humanity itself and then collide with each other (as obsession for war imbibed within our fighting character). destruction of humanity is destruction of the idea that humans are the 'special race on earth' brought up with a moral code.
life in itself is formed from characters consistent with humanity. a plant will have a physical character, an intellectual character(cz it adapts), a fighting character (required for survival), and an enjoying character(they reproduce). an animal will also have all 4 of these characters plus a dark character which enables him to depend on other creatures for its needs. humans will have all 5 of these characters of animals plus a spiritual character which enables us to 'create' unlike other manifestations of life.
hence i tend to believe that if life consists basic 5 elements, humanity has 6 elements. the 6th element being our spiritual character which is directly reflected in the moral code of conduct for humans, all in the name of Humanity.