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!

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