Lost In Thoughts
So we fumble back on to track of my favorite topic, mind.
And its underlying substrata, the brain. Examine. Haven't you thought this before? That brain may be the hardware, and mind is the software that runs on it. Brain, basically a giant storage device with a huge capacity. The neurons, the network cells that basically create algorithms to run itself. Continuously mutating, making itself better suited to survival. With every bit of new information, new data. The only question is the mind running only on the brain or the whole body, permeating every system, every cell. Full from the beginning, saturated with information from the DNA. Cumulated learning of the human species, then the specific race, then the specific ancestory, family, parents. Then I guess a dash of randomness for garnish. Unique snowflakes and all that.
Then it changes, becomes more. Based on learnings from the surroundings. A continuous barrage of information. About survival, then pleasure and pain. Behind it all, the core of intelligence. The hidden kernel on which all this is built. A built-in code for survival and evolution as a species.
On which every new layer of decisioning algorithms are tested against. The criteria column against which each new protocol is weighed against.
Each new idea, unthought of before tumbling into your mind as if by accident. Or may be it is like our brain is a honed antenna and when compatible ideas are broadcasted, you are just a great receptor. You see it is no use downloading a nuclear physics idea to a shopkeeper's mind who doesn't have the compatible background knowledge to become a good docking space. But how do you get lost in thought. Who is getting lost then?
I know this is philosophy, but we only go there because it is my second favorite subject. I guess I will leave you with your thoughts then. Because men who have not about these questions, either don't have enough time, or don't have enough mind.
And its underlying substrata, the brain. Examine. Haven't you thought this before? That brain may be the hardware, and mind is the software that runs on it. Brain, basically a giant storage device with a huge capacity. The neurons, the network cells that basically create algorithms to run itself. Continuously mutating, making itself better suited to survival. With every bit of new information, new data. The only question is the mind running only on the brain or the whole body, permeating every system, every cell. Full from the beginning, saturated with information from the DNA. Cumulated learning of the human species, then the specific race, then the specific ancestory, family, parents. Then I guess a dash of randomness for garnish. Unique snowflakes and all that.
Then it changes, becomes more. Based on learnings from the surroundings. A continuous barrage of information. About survival, then pleasure and pain. Behind it all, the core of intelligence. The hidden kernel on which all this is built. A built-in code for survival and evolution as a species.
On which every new layer of decisioning algorithms are tested against. The criteria column against which each new protocol is weighed against.
Each new idea, unthought of before tumbling into your mind as if by accident. Or may be it is like our brain is a honed antenna and when compatible ideas are broadcasted, you are just a great receptor. You see it is no use downloading a nuclear physics idea to a shopkeeper's mind who doesn't have the compatible background knowledge to become a good docking space. But how do you get lost in thought. Who is getting lost then?
I know this is philosophy, but we only go there because it is my second favorite subject. I guess I will leave you with your thoughts then. Because men who have not about these questions, either don't have enough time, or don't have enough mind.
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