The mind is a mystery.  It can be said that "we" who operate it are undefined, even unknown.  So this obscured part of the human being is very interesting and deserves a deductive inquisition.  Throughout history, humans have invented religion to explain the great unknowns.  My study of the "Operator"(Spirit) and Brain does not rely on that.  The  Mind Model puzzle has compelled me to explore what I can though my own experiences in life, purposely ignoring experts in the field, and now embarking on my 84th year.

Science and medicine have provided much information about the human body. For example, here's what must be an electron  micrograph image showing actual neurons inter-connected in the "soup" of  the human brain.  If we were to greatly magnify this complexity, and look at a single neuron, we might construct something like what this diagram represents . . .  a single neuron and its associated connections.  But the total  human being is much more complicated, not only for the complexities of the remaining parts of the physical body, but for those elements we cannot define . . . the mind and its "Operator".  So I have tried to deduce and apply some concepts to suggest a model of the mind . . . which is not the same thing as reality, but produces output that is similar to what we actually experience.

I've wondered about dreams and why they seem so strange.  You know . . . the identity of the person of interest in the dream sequence might be known . .  . but then they "morph" into another person's appearance . . . or your trying to get to a plane but can't find the way . . . or you're naked and exposed . . . or you're on the crest of a title wave . . .  etc., etc.

Our memories are not stored hierarchically like a telephone book or a dictionary.  They are held redundantly, related to varying groups of memories, in different ways at numerous locations throughout most of the brain.  A relational database used by some computers is similar.  This architecture provides a great advantage for humans since it facilitates rapid information access and a comprehensive understanding of relationships for processing thoughts when conscious.  However during sleep, Operator navigation and Memory Management (MM) stops.  My theory is that when unconscious, the Operator is "parked" in a region or sector of the brain's stored memories and able to search only local, semi-complete information.

The brain seems to have the ability to conjure up a logical result from insufficient information.  This function is operational whether the human is awake or asleep.  For example, walking in semi-darkness once, I viewed a person way up the road.  As I got closer it appeared to be a man walking my way.  But when I got much closer it was really a fire plug with a sign at head level.  My brain did it's best to identify the item, but the conclusion was wrong.  Day dreaming can provide a similar experience.  And . . . when sleeping, you guessed it . . . this same ability to use the best information available from the "parked" Operator's location, produces a real dream, strange as it may be.  I call this brain function "Automatic Interpretation and Orchestration" (AIO), and it is always functional whether we are conscious or unconscious!

I have thought and written (to myself) about this for many years now.  For the background and details, go to greytrek.com and click on Spirit Quest.  The Contents page and Introduction will explain my interest and sometimes endless, boring analysis, plus trial and error thinking.  Here I've summarized some of my conclusions:

The Human Spirit (Operator)

• Has no Memory or very little.  Therefore the Spirit is not intelligent by itself.  But . . . one would hope for accumulated wisdom somehow.

• Communicates with the brain via human feelings and emotions, the "language" of the Spirit.  Then interacts with the surroundings via the senses.

• The driving force for "Free Spirit" human incarnation is gaining the ability to communicate with others, search for truth, and exercise free will.

• Is neither created nor destroyed like the physical body.  It has a past and is subject to future events.  The sum of all free spirits may be just one entity.

• When a human is unconscious, the brain is "asleep" so to speak.  In this state the Operator is "parked" in a region with only limited stored information.

The Human Brain

• Stores perceived information and conceived thoughts as feelings and emotions, not quantities with absolute references.  Numbers are just concepts.

• Information is stored in a relational database architecture with massive redundancy and not hierarchical.

• Has special facility I call "Automatic Interpretation and Orchestration" (AIO).

• AIO is always operational, conscious or unconscious

• AIO creates a logical scenario and sequence observable by the Operator from available memories, dreams and even day dreams.

• Has "Memory Management" (MM) such that the Operator can quickly navigate to the location in the brain where needed information is stored.

• MM is only operational when we are conscious, and our brain is "awake".

  

Here's the Mind Model concept sketched on a chalk board!

So now . . . how does The Mind Model fit into a total picture of the human being (?),

and . . . how does the human being fit into all of existence?  Maybe God is really there!

 

 Here is my idea of Existence:

Here is a 9/3/2020 Process Diagram of the Mind Model

  

The Subconscious Mind

  

This is a term that has come from the experts and I really have not explored this much.  But it may refer to the processing of memories that human beings have repressed and somehow the normal "Memory Management" system is not equipped to permit the "Operator" to go there.  My supposition is that in very unusual times, or during hypnosis, the "Operator" can access and spend varying degrees of time processing the disallowed, or sequestered, or hidden, or embarrassing, or even extremely good memories apparently forgotten, but really just not normally available.  There may be value systems that are deliberated while the "Operator" is "lurking" around the "secret memory banks" trying to evaluate, deal with, and perhaps even solve certain issues that have come up in the current life or before.  This secret area may be where our individual personalities, with their positive or negative attributes, and their idiosyncrasies reside.  This subconscious area of the mind is probably where certain past life or after death accounts have been discovered by Michael Newton, Eben Alexander and Ian Stevenson . . . although each of these researchers/authors have different opinions and experiences on these subjects . . . that is, Newton used hypnotism to explore patients' after-death testimonies, Alexander remembered his experiences after plunging into a one-week coma, and Ian Stevenson has a huge body of research leading to the conclusion that reincarnation can explain past life recollection by young children.  So Subconscious Experience seems to be consistent with my Mind Model.

  

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