The Brain, A Decoded Enigma Part 5

A "lightly" negative consequence of this deficiency is the fact that, faced with a given external reality, almost any person makes a personal image-model a.s.sociated with that external reality. We will see later that, for extreme situations, such deficiency is a.s.sociated with the psychiatric disorder called "paranoia".

The symbolic models do not have such problems. Once a symbolic model is made in a mathematical environment, the "law of the propagation of the errors" is able to predict the importance of any element or relation.

For instance, if we have a complex mathematical formula, the law of the propagation of the errors will tell us how much the result is changed if an element is changed with, let's say, 1%.

We already used the term "correct" a.s.sociated with the importance of an element or relation in an image model. If there is an external reality and two a.s.sociated models, one image-model and one symbolic-model, and if the two models have the same predictions, then the importance a.s.sociated with the elements and relations of the image model is correct. If not, the right importance is that of the symbolic model.

The above method is not good in any practical situation. In fact, there is no method to know if we a.s.sociated the right importance to any element or relation of an image-model. This is XD4.

XD5: this deficiency is a technological one. It means that there is no hardware or software method to erase a model of the brain. A model is made forever. It can be destroyed only in an uncontrolled way due to the biological deficiencies or the brain.

The consequence of this deficiency is huge in many practical situations. The problem is developed more in another section of this book.

THE STRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN, THE PSM MODEL

The Protection and Surviving Model (PSM) is the basic image-model of any brain. When a new being is born, it has only this model in its brain. This model is very complex and it will be described in this chapter.

There is a section of the PSM, which contains a collection of short-range models. They have to act very fast to provide minimal protection for that being (including newborn beings) in some specific dangerous situation. These activities are called "reflex actions".

The PSM contains also some basic models, like the model to keep in the eyesight a moving ent.i.ty from external reality, or the model to touch by hand an ent.i.ty in the range of the hand. There is also a collection of models a.s.sociated with equilibrium and the general stability of the external body, together with a model of it, of course.

There are also a number of long range models which contain the instincts to survive unconditionally, forever (basic design requirement).

During the period of growing, others models can be included in the PSM, models which are a.s.sociated with the educational process. Such models have to prepare the being to live in a specific external reality.

By accident, any other models can enter the PSM, but some of them can produce big problems for the future mature being, mainly paranoia type illnesses (see ETAs).

The basic characteristic of any model from the PSM is that such a model is invariant. It cannot be changed regardless of the information obtained from the external reality.

The main goal of the PSM is to ensure that the being will survive unconditionally, forever. To do this, the PSM is able to build elements, which are activated to self-develop as models.

So, when a new situation from the external reality is met, and there is no model to understand it, the PSM is automatically activated and tries to solve the problem, based on some reflex actions, or based on some instincts. It also makes a specialized element, which is activated as a model. The new model tries to understand the new situation by independent activity, in interaction with the external reality. When that situation is met again, the PSM is not activated, and the specialized model solves the case. So, as a being gains more and more experience, the PSM is not activated, but one of the specialized models is activated instead.

Regardless of how many models are in a brain, if a new external reality occurs and there is no model to understand it, the PSM will take the control in the way already described.

When PSM controls a being, this can be recognized by the fact that the consciousness disappears, as the normal structure of models is deactivated by the PSM. This situation is called as shock-status.

THE STRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN: FUNCTIONAL FACILITIES AND TYPES OF MODELS

A basic functional facility of the brain is that any model can develop any of its elements as a model. Once a model activates an element, that element is able to develop itself as a model, by direct interaction with the external reality and with any other model of the brain.

Another functional facility is described here. We see that a model can activate any of its elements to develop itself as a model. But, even if an element is already developed as a model, the main model continues to treat it as an element. This important feature will be developed below.

So, a main model has an element. This element has some properties. To integrate that element, the main model uses these properties. Now, the problems could be like: "why that element has such properties?" or "how such properties can be changed?" To answer such questions, the main model has to develop the element as a model. Once an element is developed as a model, its properties appear to be truths generated by the model. So, depending of the point of view, referring to the same ent.i.ty, we discuss about an element with some properties, or about a model with some a.s.sociated truths.

Once an element is developed as a model, the model can be changed. A changed model will have other a.s.sociated truths, so that, when treated as an element of the main model, it has another set of properties. Thus the properties cannot be changed in a direct way, but through the changes in the model. In any case, a main model can operate only with elements, regardless of the fact that the element is or not already developed as a model.

We already use terms as "long range models" or "short range models". Let's define them.

A long-range model has already been defined as a model with its own elements developed as models. But here we will prefer another alternative definition. A long-range model is a model which reaches its aims by activation and deactivation of some of its elements. Such elements are already developed as models.

A short-range model reaches its aims by direct activation.

Example: to switch on the light in a room, a ZM model will make a ZAM. That ZAM will simulate the action. Based on this simulation it will activate an AZM which, in turn, will switch on the light. The ZM-model will confirm the success of the activity of the short-range ZAM model.

Example: To travel from a place to another, a ZM will make a ZAM. The ZAM will make some ZAMs. These ZAMs will make some others ZAMs. For any specific activity there will be a ZAM. Once a ZAM has reached its aim, it will be deactivated by the ZAM-model which activated it, and a new ZAM is activated. The general control belongs to the main-ZAM. The main-ZAM can be modified by the main ZM. Long-range models do such activity.

Example: we enter a room and switch on the light. The light really switches on. A local-ZM gets this information based on IR. But, a long-range ZM, which contains the local-ZM as an element, understands that the light had been broken, and now it is on. The local-ZM acts here as a shorter-range model. It does not understand the general environment. The main-ZM (which contains the local-ZM as element) is a long-range model.

We already saw that any model can activate any of its elements to self-develop as a model. Once an element is activated, it develops itself as a model. In turn, this new model can also activate as a model any of its elements. This "depth" has only technological limits. In fact, almost any model of the brain is a long-range model. The definitions, which are already given, respect this feature.

Now we shall present a list with the main models of a brain:

ZAM: these models are usually long-range models. A ZM model makes them. Their main function is to change the external reality. They are made for immediate activation (to drink water from a gla.s.s, for instance) or they could be models that give the orientation of the whole life of a person or anything between these very large limits.

Such models are not changed by direct interaction with the external reality. If a ZAM fails to do something, the upper ZAM or the local-ZM will build and activate another ZAM.

During their activity, they have full access to any resource of the brain (internal or external, by a ZM model).

AZM: these short-range models are direct-action models. They are connected directly to different organs which can act on the external reality (hands, legs..) They keep precise information about such organs. When a ZAM model has to make a simulation of a specific action, the AZM models have to give precise information about every feature of the a.s.sociated organs.

Referring to ZAM and AZM models, any action on the external reality is based on a simulation. Without a successful simulation, the brain is not able to do any activity.

Once a simulation is a success, the main ZAM will activate the action (in connection with local-ZM). The action will be the same as the simulated action. This procedure is followed by any ZAM in any activity.

There are some exceptions. When the PSM takes control, some reflex-models are activated without initialization and without simulation. The reason is the highest speed of action, even if the action is not the right one.

ACTIVE-TYPE MODELS (normal ZM-models)

ZM models are made mainly by direct interaction with the external reality. They generate the knowledge and consciousness. They are self-activated in any situation when they are able to predict in a good way the possible evolution of a given external reality.

A ZM, which interacts directly with the external reality, is also a model, which controls the whole body. They build, activate and deactivate any ZAM, based on a set of goals.

A long-range ZM model also controls a local-ZM. This is able to modify a local-ZM model, based on long-range predictions.

The whole activity is supervised by PSM. Usually the PSM is activated only when all the available ZMs fail to control the interaction with the external reality.

A ZM model has full access to all the resources of the brain. It can take any information from any part of the brain and can make any model based on any available information.

By a.n.a.lyzing the normal activity of the brain, one understands that some activities use only a limited number of models. The access to some models is easier than to others. We can find very fast some information and find more slowly other. This suggests that some models, which are usually employed together, are grouped. We define a quasi-structure of models called MZM. A MZM is a group of models, which are used often together. They can be a.s.sociated with some specific complex activities (job, hobby, family life, car driving and so on).

STORY-TYPE MODELS

These are transition-ZMs. When there are some information from the external reality, the normal activity of the brain is to build a normal ZM-model or to find the best available ZM to integrate that information.

When the quant.i.ty of information is high, the brain has no technical possibility to follow this normal mode of interaction. It is forced just to record the information in a string-type mode. Such a record of data is called a story-type model (S-M).

Note: some persons who already read this book were disturbed by the fact that there are many sequences which are repeated in different parts of the book. Unfortunately for such persons, this happened because they make story-type models instead of a normal model. If they make story-type models and if there is a repeated sequence, the local-ZM will jump back to the place where the information was previously met. At that moment, the story-type models are fragmenting. The person has lost the connection with the story-type model and is forced to make a new one. Also, the person could try to reconnect the old model with the new one, but this is difficult. For a person who makes a normal model, when a sequence is repeated, this sequence will only confirm the normal model and this is very good for the model.