About This WebsiteThis website explores the unknown, based on a simple, but powerful insight about the enigma of the human mind. Many eminent scientists, in the fields of quantum mechanics, neural networks, artificial intelligence and cognitive science have speculated about the underlying mechanism of the mind. Surprisingly, while there are many theories, there is not a single one, which can explain common sense, or love and compassion. As a general rule, science assumes that nerve cells compute.But, computation can never explain the massive subtlety of the mind. Can an adding machine feel compassion? This website presents the uncomplicated idea that your mind senses patterns. By evaluating the molecules in the air, your nose senses the fragrance of a flower. From that humble beginning, you can understand why you stand in awe of a sunset, or weep in anguish at the loss of a loved one. The concept can lead to innumerable explanations of how the mind works. But, that view is unlikely to be easily accepted by science.
 Science does point to the complexity of the mind. Typically, Karl Friston compared the assembled knowledge in the nervous system to accumulated complexity of waves in a pond. He suggested that those waves carried memories of turbulences created by all the raindrops, or even pebbles, which ever fell into the pond. The concept powerfully pictures an unimaginable complexity. But, it completely fails to explain how you recognize the difference between a smile and a grin.Sadly, the simple idea that the whole mind senses patterns is unlikely to be accepted by science any time soon. Because, the concept covers too wide a territory and demands too many explanations. It is as untimely as a round earth theory would have been 2300 years ago. Those were the times of Aristotle, the founder of modern science. Gravity was yet to be discovered. If earth was round, why didn't people fall off? It needed a huge leap of faith to ignore that issue. There are other reasons, why such a broad concept is unlikely to be accepted by science. At the outset, science sensibly avoids broad visions. Scientists, who speed read journal abstracts by the hour, mean no ill. They painfully trudge for years up varied alleys and peer through, mostly to find they are blind. Thousands of failed experiments burden their minds. Faced with constant and tedious toil, they know that beaten paths save valuable time. In such a world, it is annoying to suggest leaps of faith. Only small incremental visions are accepted. Not huge insights, like pattern sensing by the mind. There are still more problems for this concept. Science worships maths. Large sections of the scientific community fondly hope to discover a maths formula to explain the mind. So, the idea that the mind does not compute, but recognizes patterns can hardly be popular. But, does the mind use recognition, or maths? Consider the evidence:With damage to a small sliver of your cortex, you cannot keep your eyes closed and recognize a pair of scissors by touch. Medical text books place responsibility for recognition of objects by touch to that bit of your cortex. There is another organ, which recognizes the significance of a smell and still another, dedicated to just recognizing hand movements. Can you imagine a mathematical formula, which can recognize the anguish in a colleague's face? Mirror neurons do exactly that. Science acknowledges that huge sections of your mind just recognize things. Recognition can also explain human memory. Actually, nature's miracles depend on vast coded memories. If the DNA codes in the human body were written into 500 page books, those tomes will fill the Grand Canyon 50 times over! Those codes build your eyes and your finger nails, among other things. You can recognize a pair of scissors by touch, because you remember how it feels. Which means your system has a memory for that feel. Memories are the key to intelligence. In 2004, a Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery that the mind recognizes smells using a combinatorial code. In theory, such codes can store astronomically large memories. Actually, the whole mind senses patterns and acts using the the same process. But an acceptance of that idea again needs a huge leap of faith. These pages suggest that intuition is a routine, which enables your mind to recognize patterns. Every instant, it is intuition, which enables the machine to process cubic miles of information to manage your life. When you begin to speak, it generates a feeling, organizes the concept, chooses words, arranges the sentence, retains grammar and manipulates your muscles to guide the tone and tenor of each uttered word. All this is done before you can even begin to say “But, ...”But, intuition itself is yet to be discovered and evaluated in detail by science. Professor Carver Mead of CalTech once predicted that science could discover it by 2050. This website offers an explanation, without your having to wait that long. Again, you need a leap of faith to accept the possibility that intuition is a simple algorithm. This website also breaks with science to suggest that specifc regions in the brain focus on specific functions. Scientists report activity in many regions, when any function is performed. They reject the concept of functional independence, viewing the mind to be an integrated computational network. But these pages build the structure of the mind on functional regions. The olfactory system distinguishes odors. The amygdala triggers fear, or anger. The insula initiates social emotions. The cerebellum coordinates habitual actions. The prefrontal regions deliver unemotional judgments. These regions must be independent, because their damage cause the related functions to largely disappear. Intuition and combinatorial coding, as explained in these pages can enable complex teamwork among such regions. This view of functional separation brings clarity to how the mind perceives, interprets and responds to the environment. If this is “over simplification,” then, so be it! This website also does not follow the scientific route in presenting experimental data. A science paper has to be peer reviewed and extensively tested. This website does refer to the success of its ideas elsewhere. But, many of its concepts have not been scientifically tested. Yet they reflect general personal experience. The results are presented on the assumption that human minds are similar and what is applicable for one will be generally applicable for another. You are bound evaluate your own experience and decide if the ideas are valid. That is the best way to recognize the overall pattern of the concepts here. It was Glen Kezwer, who advocated using your mind as a research lab to study experience. "The cost to the government exchequer and the people is nil, no research grants need be applied for, no progress reports are necessary and there is no need to be concerned about the renewal of funding. There is also no pressure to publish papers, technical reports or books on the experiment." These pages contain both known scientific data and a host of assumptions. Except in a few places, references to scientific journals are not provided to validate data. Such explanations have been avoided, because wading through a mixture of "scientific certainties" and "unproved theories" could prevent you from sensing the grand underlying pattern. But, in every case, "unproved theories" refer to Kezwer verifiable experiences. You can personally ascertain its applicability. The objective of this website is to make the contents readable to a lay person with an abiding interest in improving the quality of his life. An explanation aimed at pure science will contain medical and software terminology associated with neurology, computers and the mind. That will make it obscure and inscrutable to the layman. Such jargon has been avoided. For the sake of simplicity, explanations of internal linking mechanisms of the mind have also not been detailed. Terminology has been minimized to avoid subtle barriers to understanding. These pages aim to enable an ordinary person to genuinely benefit from a new global view of complex neural processes.Back To Top Return from About This Website To Effective Mind Control Home Page E-Mail Me Your Comments! |
The “Mind Computes” approach of science makes it impossible to explain common sense, or love. Neither can the current scientific theories explain the subtlety of a smile. But, the concept that the mind recognizes patterns can logically explain such mysteries.
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Effective Mind Control
Mind Control Tips
Steps to reach your highest RI level of consciousness.
A Self Improvement Plan
A life plan for effective stress relief.
Developing Self awareness
The process can take the sting out of your fears and frustrations.
Eugene Gendlin Focusing
About Eugene Gendlin's steps to achieve self awareness.
Who Am I?
The great sage Ramana Maharshi advised his pupil to ask this question.
How To Relax At Work
Steps to help you to relax quickly while at work.
Breathing Exercises
Conscious breathing stills disturbing emotions.
Visceral Reaction
An exercise to subdue the impact of a visceral reaction.
Mindfulness Exercises
Your ability to recognize patterns can improve the quality of your life.
Coping With Stress
How to "Accept the things you cannot change."
About Will Power
Will power has nothing to do with a free will.
The Startle Response
On dealing with unwanted surprises in life.
Your Hidden Emotions
Your Hidden Emotions
How to uncover and regulate your hidden emotions.
When Life Has No Meaning
Finding the meaning of life has little to do with your happiness.
Overcoming Shyness
It is all about being comfortable with people.
Developing Intuition
Enrich your life by gaining timely and helpful insights.
A Cure For Boredom
Permanently cure the boredom malady.
The EFT Way To Be Happy
Be rid of your bad feelings through acupressure.
I Am So Sad
Not a mild, momentary unhappiness, but afeeling of intense grief.
Make Life Meaningful
Can 15 year old Angie make life meaningful?
What Causes Fear
A potential for pain, or an unrecognizable event, causes fear.
Dealing With Severe Guilt
A few years back, Ann swung out on to the outer lane to overtake...
Controlling Anger
Achieve a measure of control and your mind will not revert.
On Swallowing Your Pride
All about avoiding embarrassment.
The Power Of Gratitude
While it brings a sense of well-being, is it justified?
Social Comparison
A relentless and often troubling drive within you.
Overcoming Low Self Esteem
Learn to rid yourself of a painful habit.
Respect
Respect is a herd emotion, which helps you to jump the queue.
What Is Trust?
Trust is a positive emotion, which makes people rely on others.
Contempt
The word "contempt" implies either disgust, or disrespect. The two are different.
The Power Of Expectation
Hidden expectations become self-fulfilling prophesies
Pessimist To Optimist
Switch off pessimism and improve your health.
A View Of The Mind
How The Mind Works
Pattern recognition explains the brilliant wisdom of the mind.
The Triune Brain
The three guiding objectives of nature's control systems.
Consciousness & Soul
Your consciousness occasionally mirrors your soul.
Levels of consciousness
Evolution created different levels of consciousness.
What Causes Emotions?
The neural signals, which control behavior.
The Secret Of Intuition
Intuition is a pattern recognition algorithm.
The Subconscious Mind
The troubling drives within your subconscious mind.
What Is Intelligence?
A 2004 Nobel Prize refers to the central secret of human and animal intelligence.
Human Memory Capacity
About the immense capacity of human memory.
The Olfactory Sense
The olfactory sense has used a specific coding principle for hundreds of millions of years.
How Do We Remember?
Nerve cells recognize your current emotion and recall related images.
Long Term Potentiation
LTP is not the basis for human memory, but merely assists memory retrieval.
Behavior Pattern Recognition
Enables the mind to understand events.
Memory Research
Science has not focused on its huge capacity and precision.
Amygdala & Emotions
The amygdala triggers your emotions faster than your conscious awareness.
Insular Cortex & Social Emotions
The insular cortex grants you self awareness, empathy and social discipline.
Mirror Neurons
How can a group of neurons generate a subtle experience like empathy?
Stress Relief & Attention
Focusing attention inwards is the secret of effective mind control.
Theory of Mind
The knowledge, which enables you to predict and manipulate the behavior of others.
Meditation Benefits
Understand why it works.
A Theory Of Motivation
Motivation levels are regulated by neural pattern recognition events.
Acupuncture - How it Works
Acupuncture utilizes the capacity of the mind to sense combinatorial patterns.
Daniel Amen
How he links brain images to behavioral problems is inexplicable to many scientists.
Determinism vs Free Will
Free will loses in the determinism vs free will debate.
Define Common Sense
Science cannot clearly define common sense.
Intuitive Decision Making
Intuition can hand over control to fear, or make wise decisions.
Organ Transplants
Behavior transfer after organ transplants.
The Limbic System
The limbic system makes the behavioral choices of the human mind.
Artificial Intelligence
The AI disadvantage
AI lacks the real tools needed to succeed. It has one now!
Uncertainty & Expert Systems
Uncertainty can assist Expert Systems to diagnose problems.
Future Computers And Robotics
The Evolution Of Computers
The next stage is pattern recognition, leading to true artificial intelligence.
Robots In Our Future
They will, one day, be able to read and understand this article.
Kurzweil Singularity
Singularity will not be the end of human understanding.
Watson Computer - Finally, Strong AI!
UIMA, a program that can read and understand this article.
A View Of Management
Motivation Techniques
Motivation techniques should be humane and help people to achieve excellence.
Stress Free Career Success
Stress free career success is possible even if you are not a millionaire.
Practice Love and Compassion
Practice love and compassion as your life strategy and flow with the tide of nature.
NLP For Dummies
NLP is for dummies.
Living In The Now
A way of blocking out bad thoughts and finding joy.
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