Animals immediately 'forget' anger when feeling OK, they show angry behavior as way of sensing reality, not because of 'understanding' the IDEA 'angry'.
'Understanding' = use of memory + testing fit with some logic
Filling memory is a (sub)cultural process, decisive is in what surroundings you are born (parents, family, ..). But USE of that memory is a matter of training. 'Understanding', 'spiritual', 'mental' are words for ill-defined processes. Even in the 21st century of neurology is spoken about 'mind' as an independent 'thing''. The 'quality' of the contents of the brain can be measured, and also the level of training, but at birth brains are largely similar computers of flesh and nerves (and have no central processor 'mind').
Universities are churches of science, maybe useful in simulating 'intelligence' by way of a paperlet, but very inefficient in training useful behavior. As most educations.
The optimistic message: Life is mainly training
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Consciousness is the BEHAVIOR of
treating the reflection in a mirror as copy of yourself, and as independent of 'the others'. |
In the tiny Subreality 'Rationality' produced by Western Enlightenment talking apes (humans = ape body + human 'spirit) like addicted practice all the time the ritual 'Consciousness'. Simulating 'understanding' and use of 'mind'.
'Consciousness' is treated in the same way as electromagnetism before it could be measured. Only difference: the invisible electromagnetic forces can be felt very well. This giving properties to something not material is pointed at by scientists as 'property dualism'. The property dualist adds to reality the force 'consciousness', by saying: Clearly science and our experience tell us that the world of 'consciousness' is not material/physical. And our inner experience tells us with certainty: consciousness has a distinct existence. Our goal: to fit the real effects of the never proven force 'consciousness' into the brain.
Though there are many different ways of modelling the one of reality into 2 or more conceptual schemes (like day and night), ...., there is only one world.
Creationism
To believe in immaterial ideas like 'understanding', 'intelligence' and 'evil' is playing with 'words' and is similar to believe in 'forms'or 'God in Heaven' (worlds of reason).
Better not eat yourself
The myth is that behaviour that SUGGESTS being able to distinguish between self and others points at 'consciousness'.
Well apes that ate themselves didn't survive in evolution.
And children of their own milk drinking ape-mothers didn't either, or ape-'leaders' who without emotion harshley suppressed common sense apes.
And poor apes in a nightmare created by a dreamer (like in Zimbabwe) don't survive.
Mammals became experts in 'communication' by COOPERATION during freedom fights, because mammals (however strong and dominant) behaving like obedient zombies always died.It's hilarious that priests of the religion 'Science' (priests of 'rationality' = 'scientists') INVENT virtual models to make 'spiritual' 'consciousness' SEEM physical common sense. Possibly handling the tool intuition is way to difficult for them, though in use it is as simple as a cellphone.
In fact 'growling' when your intuition triggers angry or frightened behavior, and 'smiling' when feeling OK is much more to the point. The angry-behavior is way to expres sense experience, not result of the 'rational' IDEA 'anger'. That's why other animals immediately 'forget' anger' when feeling OK, they show angry behavior as way of sensing reality, not because of being 'angry'. Very smart behavior.
Mammals (however strong and dominant) behaving like obedient zombies always died.Examples: Roman Empire; British Empire; Nazi Empire (third reich)
the duality behind 'consciousness' (brilliant YouTube video)
'Understanding'
'Rational' philosophers believe in a 'mental process' of 'pure thinking' (mind),
a kind of immaterial bubble outside the body around the head that 'creates' the world (the mind-body problem).John Locke: I may be held morally responsible only for the act of which I am conscious of having achieved; and my personal identity (my self)goes as far as my consciousness extends itself). Translation: My pure reason creates my personal reality and that is my view on the world. Pure Reason is natural law so I can't be wrong. Anyway: I'm innocent. Henk Tuten: 'Understanding' is the ability to use some logic consistently, while using memory. And intelligenceand creativity are pointing at the ability to MAKE logics fitting with memory. |
| Employees of companies leading in 'understanding' (using 'rational' logic)
only consider the 'rational logic' side of a common sense problem. They consider complex rational models for the tiny rational part of a problem as innovative solutions for THE total common sense problem.
They develop cancer cures, test next-generation robotics, test tsunami warning systems, and test the near future of 'defense' tools. But (inherently EXTREMELY arrogant) don't ask themselves if their 'rational logic' view of cancer might block much 'wider' common sense approaches, that their robots might be awfully expensive lawn mowers, and why common sense Thai sea gypsies fled into the mountains many hours before the Asian tsunami. And why 200 years old western formal medical science based on 'rational logic' should be 'better' than 5.000 years old Ayurveda based on 'common sense logic'(example). 'Rational' solutions for America mean that uniformed to 'rational logic' addicted apes from US slaughter common sense apes in Iraq, Afghanistan. 'Rational' solutions for Russia mean that uniformed to 'rational logic' addicted apes from Russia slaughter common sense apes in Georgia. 'Rational' solutions for China mean that uniformed addicted to 'communist logic' apes with cap from China slaughter common sense apes in Tibet. |
Consciousness I'll tackle on my site death of common sense, here I'll demask 'understanding' as 'use of logic'.
'Understanding' is use of some cultural logic.
The dazzingly complex logic 'intuition' uses your creative database 'brain' to make sense of reactions as filtered by your senses from reality.
That by using some filter (logic + basics). | The Chinese character 'ci' for 'understanding' only points at the common sense intuition 'clear' = 'fitting perfectly (the used logic)'. |
'Understanding'
A HUGE task of humanity in the 21st century is to get rid of a many ages old myth of the Western Whites: 'understanding'.
Humans are beautiful animals, and grasp reality with the evolutionary logic 'intuition'.
Western humans since Aristotle became quite consistent in use of A TINY PART of intuition (the 'rational' part) and call that skill 'understanding'. But that has nothing to do with humans being 'spiritual' beings who believe in 'gods'.
The ghost 'god' was invented by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics. In fact 'god' is meta-Aristotle. He did so as tutor of Alexander the 'Great' because Alexander behaved like a predator and talked like a 'thinker' (The One: the very first human ape who behaved like a 'manager'). Aristotle could only make sense of such 'dual' behavior by presuming 'godly' rules for bodily behavior.
Trying to move mountains with only 'logic' only results in a red face.Making tasty pancakes is not a matter of 'understanding' taste, but result of finding logic in a lot of try outs (done by yourself or your teacher) .
Helping hungry people is not a matter of making a 10 year plan to 'understand' hunger, but the simple logic: hunger THEN IMMEDIATELY give food.
That's why after beating connditioned 'fear' it's not that difficult to handle crocodiles or sharks. Such in earlier times dominant predators have HUGE 'dead angles'.
Poisonous snakes don't bite because of being member of the category poisonous animals, but because of being using the simple logic: unfamiliar motion THEN attack. Warrior-humans don't counterattack because of being member of the 'category 'terrorists', but because their herd is threatened. Israel better use common sense, and stop erasing the Palestine herd, instead of with powerful weapons chase defenders of that brutally threathened Palestine Herd
And that's why predators of subvariant freedom fighters easily beat much better equipped predators of subvariants FBI, CIA or US-soldier. Withour 'rational' fear of death they just step aside before the predictable VERY HARD hit, and themselves make surprise attacks.
To commit 'no action' is a non-action or compromise, and certainly there are much better ways. Being passive when looking at structural hunger only is called 'good' in a fossilized ethics (religion). It is always result of not being able to make sense of reality.
All human actions are aimed at survival as collective, because temporary survival as individual is 'nothing' (only byproduct).
Critical Trial and Error
There are limitless ways to come to cultural intuition. Trying all is not possible. That's why structured random search is 'clever'.
The oldest known Chinese philosophical procedure "I Ching" is close to random search. Based on the idea: EVERYTHING contains truth,
only some things more 'useful truth' than others.
It is based on dynamic balance of opposites, seeing the sequence of events as a process of structured chance, and acceptance of the inevitability of change. That way if a billion of Chinese play "I Ching" to make sense of some configuration of 'things', some part of truth MIGHT be found 'earlier'.
The miraculously clever game "I Ching" is based on a very humble realization. That is that 999.999.999 humans out of a billion are born as more or less 'failing' try outs in the
trial and error random generator 'evolution'. And also brilliantly using the characteristics of the
selection virus 'evolution'. 'Failure' though is not a description that feels OK. Every human can be a fine discoverer, but that results in getting further and further away from DNA + Common Sense. Only few have the luck of discovering something that 'fits' Common Sense.
That means better don't forget to make fun of life by having sex, and that way actively assist the game by producing 'variation'.
In I Ching man simulates 'random' by a near infinite sequence of exploring babies. 1 out of in a billion in this way sexually produced humans might hit the jackpot (a prophet) and change course, though being born as "a common baby". This 'jackpot' causes a Back to Common Sense Basics.
Now a next sequence of the game with virus "Evolution" restarts by means of a fresh Paradigm.
Equal chances again for all players.
Henk Tuten,
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