Define Common SenseScience has been unable to clearly define common sense. Philosophers choose to avoid the phrase, because of its lack of precision. Yet people understand the idea of common sense. The Buddhists seek to achieve a common sense view, enhanced with compassion. This article defines common sense as the undefiled output of the prefrontal region of the brain. It is one person's calm and nonjudgmental view of the world. It is not a “commonly held view” as suggested by the dictionary, because what is common sense to one person can be stupidity for another. A common sense view integrates all the information available to one person into a single unemotional perception. With more information available, the common sense view of another person may be different.Define Common Sense – One Out Of Many Viewpoints  Paul D. MacLean proposed a triune brain concept to suggest three evolutionary stages in the development of the human brain. The initial mechanical responses evolved further to emotion controlled behaviors and finally culminated in the output of rational human viewpoints. Hunger and thirst, or territorial rights controlled the first stage reptilian brain. Social emotions such as guilt and shame controlled viewpoints for the second stage mammalian brain. In the third human stage, amplified cortical regions enabled a purely rational evaluation by the prefrontal human brain. All these systems operate in parallel. In an intuitive decision making process, one of these control systems takes charge and sets the viewpoint of the mind. Common sense emerges, when the prefrontal brain is in control.Define Common Sense – The Prefrontal Regions Have An Integrated View The flow of nerve impulses traced by science point to progressive integration of information by the brain. Increasing meaning is derived from information as it flows from sensory perceptions to the final stages of evaluation. The primary areas of the cortex receive sensory information. This information proceeds to secondary areas, which coordinate binocular vision and stereophonic sound. This integrated information travels to the association regions, which enable you to recognize objects and events. Typically, the somesthetic association region recognizes objects through touch. When that region is damaged, a patient cannot recognize a pair of scissors, when touching it with her eyes closed. She can still feel the scissors. Other regions recognize events through taste, sound, light and much more. The assembled recognition images proceed to the prefrontal regions, enabling you to make final sense of the whole. That is the common sense view. Unfortunately, the more primitive limbic system intervenes to narrow that vision. Define Common Sense – The Prefrontal Regions Manage Tact & Judgment The role of the prefrontal regions has been noted by science. Many years ago, prefrontal lobotomy was applied for patients with intractable pain, or to modify the behavior of severely psychotic patients. The procedure isolated the prefrontal regions by cutting its nerve fiber links. Most patients were able to return home and even resume their former activities. The results of these operations were widely published. A significant outcome of this procedure was that the patients appeared to lack judgment and were tactless in social relationships. The general view of science is that these regions play a role in the global evaluation by the mind. People understand that common sense acts with tact and judgment. Define Common Sense – Intuition Uses An Either, Or Logic  Science has held that all regions of the mind participate in mental activities. As such, how can common sense be the output of a single region of the brain? This website suggests that intuition is an algorithm, which narrows down answers by inhibiting irrelevant information. An animal cannot afford to pause undecided whether to quench thirst, or satisfy hunger. In every decision making process, intuition selects a single strategy from among many – common sense, anger, fear, guilt, envy, etc.Define Common Sense – Limbic System Compartmentalizes Views In the early developments of the reptilian and mammalian brains, nature developed mechanisms to categorize incoming information in terms of emotions, including fear, sadness, disgust, contempt, curiosity, surprise, love, pleasure, embarrassment, guilt, and shame. Each emotion focused the behavior of animals into a single strategy – fear impelled the animal to avoid danger and anger to attack an opponent. In order to impel a focused response, the nervous system inhibited “irrelevant” information. Fear had no access to knowledge of previous successes. Anger was blind to past kindnesses by an opponent. Thus emotional viewpoints were blinkered and lacked the integrated view of common sense. Define Common Sense – Intuitive Decision Making Favors Emotions In the competition for the control of the mind, an intuitive decision making process hands over control of the mind to the most powerful emotional signals. Science discovered that the limbic system responds within 20 milliseconds, while the awareness of the prefrontal regions appear after 300 milliseconds. Thus you become angry, before you realize that you are angry. In the process, emotions dominate human behavior, making common sense rare. This website offers a few Mind Control Tips to still emotions and pass control to your common sense. The following paragraphs show how the stilling of emotions can empower your common sense. They show that emotional viewpoints generally lack common sense. An absence of negative emotions defines common sense. Define Common Sense – An Absence Of Anger Overt anger blinds you to the problems faced by your opponent. Many people have a hidden anger towards authority, or against a cruel fate for some self perceived inferiority. The emotion makes people impatient with mistakes and errors, or contemptuous of people. In positions of power, such people become harsh, or patronizing and condescending. Hidden anger often justifies itself by covertly inducing self failure. Such people generally know the error of their behavior, but anger impels them on. Such anger can be stilled through anger management. When their common sense is thus empowered, they will be able to accept the frustrating foibles of the world and act with kindness and consideration. Define Common Sense – Alert And Not Fearful Andy Grove suggested that only the paranoid survive. But fear tends to paralyze. Every vista appears dangerous and threatening. Creative management requires alertness, not fear. Pangs of fear can be stilled through self awareness and a few mind control practices. When fear is stilled, the awareness of danger will still be present. But the ability to take calculated risks and make a project successful will come to the forefront. Common sense appears, when fear is stilled. Define Common Sense – Not Overwhelmed By Grief When life deals you a severe blow, it is but natural to feel sadness and to dwell on the images of “what might have been.” A reasonable period of grief is needed for a person to come to terms with traumatic changes in life. But, it is necessary to gradually forget the past and to plan for a new future. As grief subsides, common sense will take over, motivating the mind to get on with life. Define Common Sense – An Absence Of Envy And Jealousy Envy and jealousy are triggered by the pain of failure. A neighbor's shiny new car can be a painful reminder of overdue mortgage payments. A bright new recruit to the office may be seen as a threat to the chances of promotion. An acceptance of one's own shortcomings can still these debilitating emotions. When your own failures are accepted, common sense can motivate you to avoid those failures in future, or to go out and seek new opportunities. Define Common Sense – The Buddhists Have Isolated Pure Perception The logic of intuition suggests that the human mind always enacts a single course of action, inhibiting other points of view. Can the mind isolate a purely rational view from its myriad emotional viewpoints? People have inbuilt prejudices, which may negate common sense. The Buddhists have practiced over centuries the art of stilling emotions through meditation and self awareness. They claim to have reached a stage, where “you will see the color or the sound as it is - you will not see something is good or bad, whether it is a beautiful picture or a very ugly picture, a sweet sound or an ugly sound. When you act like this, your mind will stay calm.” Evidently pure perception, without emotions is possible. The prefrontal regions have massive links to the limbic system, which controls emotions. Common sense may be a calm view of the world, with an awareness of emotions, while remaining unhindered by their blinkered views. Define Common Sense – Common Sense Is Personal The dictionary defines common sense as “a sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or fact.” But such judgment varies between people. Your judgment depends on the information available to you. So, a common sense viewpoint is not clearly definable, if it is considered to be common to all people. It is neither “a sense of common things, nor a sense of things common to humanity.” It has no consistent set of propositions. It does not follow rules of reasoning, or mathematical logic. Common sense is one individual's “sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or fact.” Intuitive logic suggests that common sense is the pure unemotional perception of one person's prefrontal brain. Back To Top Return from Define Common Sense To Effective Mind Control Home Page Your Comments Feedback - E-Mail Your Comments |
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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
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Dealing With Severe Guilt
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Controlling Anger
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On Swallowing Your Pride
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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
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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
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Kurzweil Singularity
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Watson Computer - Finally, Strong AI!
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A View Of Management
Motivation Techniques
Motivation techniques should be humane and help people to achieve excellence.
Stress Free Career Success
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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
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