MIND - MENU

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MIND - MENU

• Select MIND TOPICS from MENU on LEFT
• WHAT IS THE MIND?
• MIND is a synchrony of consolidating energy
  yielding an information-state that rises above
  and beyond all other brain functions yielding
• -CONSCIOUSNESS WITH SELF AWARENESS,
• -MEMORY OF SENSORY INPUTS AND MOTOR CONSEQUENCE,
• -MEMORY RETRIEVAL,
• -EMOTIONAL ASSOCIATIONS WITH MEMORIES,
• -COGNITION- AS FRAME-WORKS OF UNDERSTANDING,
• -DECISION-MAKING FOR SPEECH BEHAVIOR,
• -INTELLECT.

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BRAIN MIND

• Emergence of CONSCIOUSNESS out of the
  functioning brain is the primary characteristic
  of the MIND. The energy source of MIND arises
  from temporal occurrence of cerebral neuronal
  activity associated with sensory inputs and
  cognitive processing.

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MIND CONSCIOUSNESS

• The mark of MIND is consciousness. The common
  basis for recognizing the existence of MIND is
  sensory stimuli followed by voluntary-motor
  activity as judged by others. A conscious MIND
  occurs when sensory receptors send inputs through
  the sensory thalamus to respective cerebral
  cortices. In parallel, MIND initiates motor
  control for eye movements and extensor muscles
  (e.g. standing).
• There are two main sensory sources the external
  environment and from self. Vision, audition,
  taste and olfaction report, largely, on the
  external world while sensory-self inputs arise
  from body surface and internal receptors.
  Hyper-stimulation of any one sensory system
  focuses awareness to that system. In addition,
  the MIND selects which sensory inputs are of
  primary focus even though the signal maybe weak.
  Most often, our senses operate at subliminal
  levels of AWARENESS with minimal MIND determined
  attention.
• Besides incoming sensory inputs, the conscious
  MIND recalls memories of previous sensory
  experiences and compares them to current inputs
  in order to reinforce consciousness.

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SENSORY-MOTOR NS
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MIND, BRAIN, BODY

• The brain controls the bulk of motor actions of
  the body through reflexes and programmed
  behaviors. The MIND is an emergent consciousness
  rising above and beyond brain function to make
  decisions for behavior and speech. The MIND
  assembles sensory inputs, memories and emotions
  into frameworks of understanding, cognition, that
  form the intellect.

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FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS
The conscious MIND is based in sensory inputs,
memory storage and recall. The MIND associates
emotions to memories and stores them in the
emotion based cerebral cortex (cingulate gyrus).
Memories are recalled by the MIND and are then
used in making decisions for initiating motor
actions of behaviors and speech and for cognition
in creating frameworks of understanding, yielding
intellect.
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MIND, SENSORY INPUT MEMORY

• MEMORY is a central pillar of the conscious MIND.
  The MIND has the ability to assemble, store and
  recall MEMORY. Only the conscious and dreaming
  MIND contribute to memory storage. Sensory
  inputs, emotion, consequence of behavior and
  cognition are recorded in MEMORY.
• Sensory inputs are processed in primary cortices
  for differences to previous inputs that have been
  stored in memory. Visual memories are stored as
  collage scenes of multiple small images of shapes
  that are literally drawn-out by eyes movements
  following margins of objects such as faces or
  objects. The small area of fovea, as compared to
  reflex-inducing peripheral retina, restricts
  formation of scene images although some report
  photographic memory. Scenes are compiled from
  small detailed images. Auditory memories are
  valued according to emotional associations, sound
  frequency patterns, loudness and direction.
• Associational cortices that surround the primary
  sensory cortex process inputs for detail of each
  respective sensory modality. These associational
  cortices store complex inputs providing access to
  detailed memory recall.
• Numerous other sensory modalities generate
  arrays, although highly localized, are
  distributed over broad areas of the cerebral
  cortex.
• Memories associated with high-emotional levels
  are most lasting and are easiest to recall. Most
  memories are lost or distanced if they are not
  reinforced by associ-ational recall or lack an
  emotional counterpart. MIND without inputs from
  sensory systems or memory recall has difficulty
  to sustain consciousness and lacks ability to
  make decisions. Memory is the grist for planning
  and imagination by the MIND.

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SOME MIND MEMORY RELATED REGIONS
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MEMORY FORGETTING

• Memory of events is continually undergoing a
  natural progression of forgetting. Parking your
  car each day in a large garage of scattered
  stalls produces numerous memories of locations.
  We recall the most recent memory of parking by
  the strength of the memory for locations among
  previous days. The forgetting process is the
  clearing of attention memory by a temporal
  process of declining strength for memory recall
  of previous image memories. On the contrary,
  memories associated with strong emotional events
  remain most retrievable in recall. Also, the
  more often that an event is recalled, the
  stronger is the memory. This is a common
  technique for learning and reinforcement of
  long-term memory.

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MIND EMOTION

• The principal measures of conscious EMOTIONS are
  generated according to pleasure and displeasure
  principles. Sensory inputs, memories and
  consequence of motor events are assigned VALUE as
  based on emotion. EMOTIONS are classified in the
  hippocampus and amygdala by comparison between
  incoming and hippocampal image memories as well
  as for other sensory modalities. Primary visual
  and auditory cortices have major connections to
  the hippocampus. Thus, images (faces and
  locations) are processed in the hippocampus for
  familiarity (friend or foe) and then in the
  amygdala for determining fight or flight via
  autonomic expression by the hypothalamus.
• These emotional responses are carried to the
  hypothalamus via the fornix and then to anterior
  group nuclei in the thalamus for projection onto
  the emotion cortex (cingulate gyrus).
• Conscious EMOTIONS are processed and stored in
  the cingulate cortex. The emotional response of
  sensory inputs produce strength of associations
  to past events so they can be readily compared
  with current sensory inputs. Memories associated
  with high-emotions are most lasting and are
  easiest to recall.

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MEMORY STORAGE

• The mechanism of memory storage is the strength
  of neuronal connections of circuits. MEMORY has
  two fundamental domains 1) very short, as
  physiological electrotonic properties at
  synapses, and 2) reorganization of physical
  connections at synapses that modifications of
  synaptic contact area via molecular
  reorganization for presynaptic neurochemical
  liberation and postsynaptic receptor insertions
  or deletions changing the strength of pathway
  connections. Receptors at synapses are constant
  in numeer but the relative number shift between
  synapses on each neuron.

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MEMORY RETRIEVAL

• Memories are continually being accessed during
  consciousness and dreaming states. Retrieval is
  strongest in associations that 1) are linked to
  current sensory input, 2) high emotions
  associated with these inputs, 3) ongoing motor
  activity and 4) placement in composition of
  cognitive frame-works of understanding.

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MIND AND COGNITION

• The INTELLECT of mankind is in cognitive
  capacity. The MIND has resources to assemble,
  yet, unqualified sensory and motor memories into
  a framework of understanding, COGNITION. The
  MIND recalls memories according to emotions,
  spatial-temporal domains and consequences of
  actions and then uses them to conceptualize
  temporal processes and structural order.
  Memories are processed for COGNITION in passage
  to the medial dorsal thalamus and to working
  memory in the frontal lobe. Furthermore, the
  frontal lobe extrapolates sensory memories, motor
  experiences and emotional responses into
  PREDICTION yielding higher levels of INTELLECT.
  Foretelling consequence as PREDICTION is the mark
  of the intellectual MIND. Fundamental to this
  process is the ability to IMAGINE by projecting
  understanding into a VISION that extends beyond
  the known.

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MIND AND MOTOR DECISIONS

• A central role of MIND is initiation of
  self-serving motor control for survival and
  reproduction. Behavior and speech are initiated
  by the conscious MIND through DECISION-MAKING.
  Behaviors arise from reflexes and brain defined
  patterns of movement. Yet, it is the MIND that
  makes decisions to initiate voluntary behavior,
  speech and to lesser degree modulates reflexes.
  When the MIND is not operating such as during
  sleep or unconsciousness, all voluntary reflexes
  are quiescent. When the MIND becomes conscious,
  sensory awareness returns and the MIND initiates
  antigravity sensory-motor reflexes as well as
  behaviors and speech. Programmed behaviors carry
  values that are determined by the Mind and used
  for decisions in initiation of movements. The
  MIND is involved in training high level patterned
  movements by observing conscious trials and
  judging consequence of actions.

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MIND AND CONSEQUENCE

• The gold standard of decision making for
  initiating behavior by the MIND, is CONSEQUENCE.
  Each outcome of MIND-determined actions is
  assigned values that have been gained from
  memories of past experiences. Pleasure and
  displeasure principles add emotional value that
  characterize consequence. These emotions of
  memories bolster MINDs ability to predict the
  outcome of initiated behaviors.
• Predictions of consequence are generated from
  combinations of sensory/motor memories and their
  associated emotions placed in the cognitive
  domain. Consequence determines the level of
  motivation that the MIND uses in decision-making
  to initiate subsequent motor actions. The MIND is
  the decision maker of motor learning with gains
  being made by trials and observation of results.

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MIND VALUES

• The MIND uses VALUES to make decisions for
  initiation of movements that express our behavior
  and speech. MIND related values become our
  character and represent the basis of our
  personality. The MIND-VALUE generation system is
  the foundation of the concsience. The MIND
  associates motor outcomes to memories for
  establishing ACTION-VALUES. Sensory-motor reflex
  organization of the BRAIN lacks a value system.
  Nevertheless, the MIND evaluates outcomes of
  reflex actions and programmed movements according
  to consequence via sensory receptor input
  strengths, correlations to stored memories,
  pleasure or displeasure, and emotions.
• These VALUES are further influenced by culture
  as well as by maternal/paternal inputs that
  instill additional value for the greater good of
  the species. These VALUES are recalled in
  association with each memory. Together, values
  and consequence of actions, constitute a
  MIND-VALUE system.

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INTELLECT MIND
Four components of MIND lead to INTELLECT
SENSORY INPUT and SENSORY MEMORY inducing
consciousness EMOTION generation that places
value on sensory memories and cognition
COGNITION compiling frame-works of understanding
DECISION-MAKING determining speech behavior.
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MIND AND BEHAVIOR

• All behaviors are restricted by nerve to muscle
  synapses or nerve to gland synapses for
  secretions. Behaviors are a combination of 1)
  involuntary reflexes of voluntary muscle groups,
  2) autonomic control of involuntary muscle and
  glands, 3) patterned movements of voluntarily
  muscle that are programmed in the brain and 4)
  MIND decisions initiating movements and speech.
  The MINDS power to reason, formulate cognition,
  and make decisions for initiating patterned
  movements is the base of expressing behavior and
  speech. While most behaviors are controlled
  involuntarily as either hard wired reflexes or as
  programmed movements from basal ganglia, the MIND
  selects behaviors and initiates high level
  patterned movements as decisions of the MIND. The
  MIND uses consequence and pleasure principles to
  determine behavior selections for initiating
  behaviors that dictate our personality. In
  addition, MIND decisions are modulated by
  Mind-states such as depression or hyperactivity
  that are defined by levels of brain chemistry.
  Once initiated, behaviors from basal ganglia
  play-out according to the program, so much so,
  they can be difficult to interrupt. Examples are
  laughing, crying, certain patterns of movement
  and other emotional expressions.

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BRAIN - BODY - MIND
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MIND MOTIVATION

• MIND-determined motivations arise from three
  principle sources need for food, sexual
  fulfillment, and self-esteem. Homeostatic
  reflexes control much of our basic survival
  behaviors that include respiratory, cardiac, GI
  and urinary function as well as fight or flight
  actions. Willful behaviors are based on each
  individuals need to fulfill food, sexual and
  self-esteem desires.
• The principal drive is self-esteem and this
  underlies all willful behaviors. From birth, the
  MIND is seeking to fulfill the need for food. As
  the conscious MIND matures, the reinforcement of
  self-recognition becomes the central means for
  gaining self-esteem. The individuals needs for
  reinforcing self-esteem repeat every few minutes
  to hours.
• The fulfillment of the self-esteem need comes
  from within self, but is mostly reinforced
  externally from others. These reinforcements can
  be positive, but too often, negative
  reinforcement become the only means for the
  individual to receive the required self-esteem.
  Whether these individuals become bullies and
  position themselves outside of nominal society or
  else subordinate themselves, depends on the
  strength of negative assaults and the strength of
  the individuals personality. The direction of
  personality development by positive reinforcement
  is most successful but must be done with an
  understanding of stimulus consequence.

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MIND, SOUL AND SPIRIT

• During unconsciousness or sleep, MIND lacks signs
  of existence, yet, the conscious MIND appears in
  direct relationship to increased rate of EEG
  brain activity. While there is no material
  representation of MIND, neuronal activity in
  cortical circuits generates an emerging state of
  energy that carries self-serving consciousness,
  sensory and motor memories, emotions, and
  understanding. The conscious MIND also carries a
  system of values that is used in making decisions
  for sensory attention and motor actions of
  behavior and speech. The expression of these
  values, throughout life and at death, passes to
  the SOUL to emerge as the individuals SPIRIT.
  The spirit of the individual exists in the minds
  of others and in antiquities after the energy of
  MIND subsides at brain death.
• Religion is represented in the MIND by FAITH and
  BELIEFS in historical events and in predictions
  of future consequences.

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SOUL - SPIRIT

• Emanating out of and above the SOUL is the
  individuals SPIRIT. The individuals values,
  action levels and behaviors, that were produced
  by the MIND in life, are represented as the
  SPIRIT. The SPIRIT of individuals is the
  inspiration, whether good or bad, representing
  the trail of behaviors that was expressed through
  the individuals personality in life. The spirit
  resides in the MIND and memories of others after
  brain function is lost.

Traditionally, the concept of SOUL and SPIRIT is
defined by religion. The understand-ing that MIND
emerges as an informational energy-state out of
functional circuitry and initiates actions by
decisions gives us a window into the scientific
basis for SOUL and SPIRIT. Beyond brain MIND,
the SOUL emanates as an impression of the
individuals character and values that build over
the individuals lifetime. The SOUL is the
imprint of MIND-expression through induction of
motor patterns forming behavior. The SOUL lives
in antiquities after brain function and the MIND
are lost.