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I) In Response To Life’s Problems Coming At Us (Over ~95 Percent Of The Time), Our Problem Solving Brain Very Quickly, Yields (Into Our Conscious Mind) => Valid Problem Solutions (Answers), That Amazingly Are The Best Or Near Best Answers, For The Situation At Hand. Below A) thru H), Which Are The Most Dramatic Of Our Suddenly Experienced Mental Arrivals => A) Eureka! I have found it !! (Archimedes)
B) The Light Came On!!-
C) -A Flash of Insight It **AHA**
D) It Dawned On Me
E) Light Bulb (As in a cartoon),
F) OH !! Now I see it !! …. I Suddenly Realized Or Noticed.
G) Epiphany
H) Sudden laughter when hit by the punch-line, In Jokes or Humor, where we instantly see what is funny, with laughter & pleasure!
J) AND the most important example of an => “Eventually Suddenly Realize”, hopefully will happen to you in => THE MAJOR PUNCH LINE … Which Is Below At About 2/3 Webpage.
************* …1) Nearly always these above mentioned noteworthy, A) thru H), of Mental Arrival Solutions (into our conscious mind (as also mentioned above), are =>
…2) Problem solutions, arising from Unconscious Brain Processes. And these solutions can be =>
a) Perceptions of “What Is There”, leading to what herein is called Primary Consciousness. AND
b) Best Or Near Best Solutions (Answers), that include a complete plan, to guide efficient “Real World Action”. These are Solutions to life’s oncoming problems => Which are Generated, Constructed, Created, by our Problem Solving Brain.
And such Mental Arrivals will appear” Into Conscious Mind => IF AND ONLY IF, they have Sufficient Optimal => “Fitness”, “Quality”, “Value”, “Merit”. “Utility”, “Relevance”, “Salience”, “Aptness”, “Mental Coherence Strength”. …3) These Mental Arrival Solutions Always include => Emotions & Feelings, plus a sense of => Does one’s mind-body have the mental capacity and physical strength, as well as a sufficient sense of readiness for the actions planned?
… In other words => We automatically spontaneously know if we are mentally clear-eyed, fully competent, and mentally & physically tuned, for the task at hand, and whether we have sufficient level of preparedness, and mental-body strength & mental stability, to do the actions planned.
…4) And Especially Note Well => These Problem Solving Brain Generated, Constructed, Created => Best Or Near Best Solutions => Are built-up USING PREVIOUS Creative Best Or Near Best Solutions (Answers), which were then saved into Memory, for just this very purpose. Thus, there is a successive generation, construction, creative creation of, ever improving knowledge, skills, & abilities!
…5) And Especially Note Well => Within Our Problem Solving Brain => These generated, constructed created solutions are Self-Organized, UN-Supervised, and Suddenly, Automatically, Spontaneously, “Come To Mind”, “Out Of The Blue”, with absolutely no conscious awareness of their origin!!
…6) They suddenly, Just Appear (or Mentally Arrive) into our Consciousness Mind,
…7) ' And Especially Note Well => 'These Sudden, Automatic, Spontaneous Mental Arrivals'', are ALWAYS presented into our conscious mind => A One-At-A-Time, Unified, Whole & Complete, Logical, Max Coherent, Holistic, Full of Meaning, All-At-Once Solutions => Good Answers, No Parts Left Out, With Positive Emotions, Plus Feeling Of Success, & Joy, & Satisfaction, & Feeling of Achievement, even Laughter!
…AND remarkably free of contradictions, inconsistencies, errors, non-factual data, and other spurious ideas & wrong conclusions. … As the book "Inside Jokes" so well points out, these “Positive Feeling Of Success & Joy”, are a huge reward (like a food reward), so we as a biological organism will pursue similar such problem-solving efforts in the future.
…8) AND all this is apparently accomplished by Our Problem-Solving Brain, with similar methods as it also makes => Mental Arrivals generally and/or, Normal Perception, Vision, Hearing, Taste, Smell, Sense of Touch.
…9} In addition, and acompanying each Mental Arrival solution, our brain (right along with above (and below) mentioned Properties & Characteristics), will concurrently generate, construct, create, one the many recognized Emotions, such as Happiness / Sadness, Fear, / Anger, Surprise / Disgust, with Feelings also appropriately present.
…10) As is observed, nearly all Mental Arrivals, such as The Flash of Insight event (or the other above mentioned noteworthy Mental Arrivals A Thru H), instantly solve an existing problem, which for minutes to months, has caused blockage or blindness. (See major discussion of “Perceptual Blindness” below.)
…10)cont … For Example => When given a hard to solve puzzle, you may be stuck & could not see the answer to the puzzle. But you try, and try to find an answer. And then in a Mental Arrival such as a "Flash of Insight", you suddenly clearly “see” the puzzle answer!!. Completely.
…10)cont …For A Second Example => When given a hard to solve joke or other humor, you may be stuck & could not see what is funny or humorous. But you try, and try to find what’s humorous or funny. And then in a Mental Arrival such as a "Flash of Insight", you suddenly “see” the point of the joke!! What’s funny arrives totally, completely, all at once. The Mental Arrival suddenly comes with => Positive Feelings Of Success & joy, Emotional Satisfaction, & Feeling of Achievement, even Laughter!
… AND, the next time you hear the same joke you think of the answer much faster. …10)cont … Note Well => From the above we see that => The original Mental Arrival solution (answer), resulted in instant and permanent learning, thus providing an example of the inside steps of how we construct, ever improved, skills, habits, ideas, knowledge, in our mind:
…11) As observed, these automatic spontaneous Mental Arrival Solutions (Answers, Thoughts, Ideas, Conclusions, Intentions, Behavior, Etc) => Are, for very important reasons, “only-one-at-a-time” and always come with accompanying future plans, feelings, & emotions
…12) As is observed, Nearly ALL automatic spontaneous Mental Arrivals Are Generally => One-At-A-Time, Immediate, Whole, Complete, Holostic, Clear, Logical, Maximum Coherent, Understandable: AND FULL OF MEANING, Such As In Poetry Or Metaphor.
…b) In above Blue Link, you may learn more by > Top > Edit > Find > metaphor . Especially study hits, 4, 15, 16, 19, & 24 thru 28.
…12)cont Immediately present with any one Mental Arrival Solution, (Depending on circumstance), ''Arrives' into Conscious Mind, usually one the following => Awareneses, Understanding, Connotation, Essence, Implication, Interpretation, Nuance, Sense, Significance, Substance, Value, Quality, Acceptation, Allusion, Bearing, Denotation, Intimation, Point, Purport, Import, etc. Or just simply Meaning. …13) And these (“only-one-at-a-time”) automatic spontaneous Mental Arrival Solutions (Answers) => Are remarkably free of contradictions, inconsistencies, errors, non-factual data, and other spurious ideas or conclusions.
…14) These Mental Arrival Solutions (Answers), Into Conscious Mind, Have The Above (& Below) Mentioned Observed General Pattern Of Steps, That Are Irrespective Of The Person’s Physical Circumstance(s) or History.
…15) ''' And Here Note Well => Practically, The ONLY Reason We Are Aware AT ALL, That We Have => UNCONSCIOUS BRAIN PROCESSES, is That We Become AWARE WE ARE STUCK, Without The Next Step Or Solution (Answer), With Which To Continue Our Life! … This “STUCK”’ Is Because Our Problem Solving Brain Has Just Suddenly Come To A Halt. … And Is Stuck At A Place Where It Can NOT Satisfactorily Achieve A Needed Problem Solution. =>
…15)cont AND THUS, we concsiously (Mental Arrival) become aware we are “STUCK”, and also consciously know we have NO way to consciously “go directly after” an answer, except to quit &wait, and hope a Mental Arrival Solution (Answer), will come “out of the blue”!
….And of course, we don’t need to worry, because => Sooner or later, if we struggle & struggle, and then wait long enough, our Problem Solving Brain WILL automatically spontaneously Generate, Construct, Create, Into Our Concious Minds, A Mental Arrival Of => A Best Or Near Best Solution (Answer), that is needed for this curcumstance! .
…16) AND, importantly for survival, we are Consciously Aware & Know We Are “STUCK”’, With No Answer.
…16)cont AND, importantly for survival => We also instantly know pretty much what the problems is, and instantly know we have NO direct way to “move ahead” to an answer or solution:
…17) Thus, at first, we know we have no direct way to get a good answer (solution), except to ~”Quit & Wait”. for a Mental Arrival Solution (Answer), to Suddenly, Automatically Spontaneously, Mentally, Arrive, “Out of the Blue”, such as Flash of Insight.
…18) OR alternatively => We (Mental Arrival), consciously realize we need.to seek other ways to move toward, toward what we originally wanted, as follows in below 19) =>
…19) Given How Our Problem Solving Brain Operates, We Need To Remember: The Clear Advantages Of =>
…a) When Halted, Stuck, & Blocked With No Available Mental Arrival Solution (Answer) => We Must Prepare, Study, And Struggle For A Solution, THEN QUIT & WAIT! Or
…b) Alternatively, When Out Of Gumption, We Should Quit & Wait. And Only After Gumption Returns, Is It Possible To Continue Work.
… Here we should remember the book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, where Robert Pirsig says => '' “If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.
…20) Thus Most Often The Better Method Is => The Virtues Of This ”Quit & Wait”, As Are Fully Discussed In => For Complete Explanation Click Here To Go To => APPENDIX XI: Virtues of QUIT & WAIT In Creative Problem Solving.
…21) Additionally, I Henry Gurr, believe that => “Some important discoveries can ONLY be found this “Quit & Wait” way! … AND this technique seems to go way beyond normal problem solving procedures. … I think this is because, after you “Go as far as you can, THEN COME BACK LATER”, effectively “drops the reader into to the middle of the action”, without her/his mind, much remembering any previous work. This gives a sufficiently DIFFERENT “PERSPECTIVE”, that new & newly needed fixes and creative improvements, will suddenly, automatically, spontaneously “just appear” into conscious mind => The needed “better ways to do it; just suddenly pop into Mind!” …..
… For Example => A) Now, only here during my typing above, just now, do I suddenly “Mental Arrival” see” in retrospect, the importance of above-mentioned words, namely this => Some very much needed important improvements would NOT be automatic spontaneous Mental Arrival, “realized” in any other way!
B) A good example of the Virtues Of ”Quit & Wait”, by the clear evidence, are seen, in the discussion (In this Blue Link >> Where I Ever So Gradually, Finally Fully Achieved A Full Realization, Of A VERY Important Idea (Concerning MEANING),
…As discussed in the above Blue Link => ONLY THEN, did I, finally and fully “see”, this all important idea!! .
….. And An Alternate Way To Say This Is => In your work, when “The Creative Well Goes Dry”, and you are “Out of Gumption”, THEN => Quit And Come Back At A Later Time => Hours, days, months. Only then, you will see your work flowing more easily & productively!.
(NOTE: Here, again above Robert Pirsig passages re “Gumption” apply.)
NOTE1: As was stated in 12) above => I Henry Gurr had A) Previously concluded that => Nearly All Mental Arrivals Are Generally => One-At-A-Time, Immediate, Whole, Complete, Holostic, Clear, Logical, Maximum Coherent, & Understandable:
NOTE3: Mental Arrivals, As Discussed In This Webpage You Are Currently Reading =>
->Please Remember: Concerning Henry Gurr’s Cognitive Theory: ”Our Problem Solving Brain, Automatically & Spontaneously Finds Optimal (Best or Near Best) Solutions To Life’s Oncoming Problems. ” =>This Is A New & Different Theory Of Mind Confirmed By Direct Observation, Where: => Our Human Brain, Considered As A General Problem Solver, Can And Will Nearly Always, Automatically Spontaneously Find Best Or Near Best Answers, To Life’s Oncoming Problems.AND: Once You Fully See & Understand =>
…As Direct Observation Repeatedly Confirms => Our human brain, considered as a General Problem Solver, can and will nearly always, each successive moment of time, automatically spontaneously find Best Or Near Best Answers (Solutions) to life’s oncoming problems.
…AND: These Answers (Solutions). which are generated, constructed, created, by Unconscious Brain Processes, will appear in Conscious Mind IF AND ONLY IF, of Sufficient Optimal => “Fitness”, “Quality”, “Value”, Merit, “Utility”, “Relevance”, “Salience”, “Aptness”, “Mental Coherence Strength”.. YES, I KNOW MY ABOVE ASSERTIONS, ARE FANTASTIC & PRACTICALLY UNBELIEVABLE!BUT … To Confirm That These Are Obviously True => Simply, Just Stop, And Watch Your Own Mind At Work. And To Do This =>Notice Carefully, When & How These Automatic Spontaneous Mental Arrivals, Come Into Conscious Mind, From Unconscious Brain Processes.'''ATTENTION: THESE IMPORTANT ASPECTS, OF OUR PROBLEM SOLVING BRAIN ARE OBVIOUS!
NOTE: On this WebPage you are currently reading, the meanings of “Best”, “Quality”, “Merit”, & “Coherence” are as stated in a Dictionary.
The BELOW Two Solar Eclipse Photos, Are An Analogy Illustration Of => BEFORE and AFTER A Major Mental Arrival Such As => Eureka!, Epiphany, The Light Came On!!, A Flash Of Insight It **AHA**, It Dawned On Me, I Suddenly Realized Or Noticed, And Many Others Similar But Less Dramatic.These Below Images Are Presented With The Hope That They Will Give Some ~”Visual Intuitions” For Mental Arrivals.![]() Let This ABOVE Photo Represent An Analogy Of A Mental Situation BEFORE A Mental Arrival.
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![]() Let This ABOVE Photo Represent An Analogy Of A Mental Situation AFTER A Mental Arrival.
Continuing From The Above, Henry Gurr’s Further Discussion => Concerning How Our Problem Solving Brain Generates “MEANING” => The Following Are Seen To Be True To Real World Test & Direct Observation =>Nearly ALL Mental Arrivals Are Generally => One-At-A-Time, Immediate, Whole, Complete, Holostic, Clear, Logical, Maximum Coherent, Understandable: AND FULL OF MEANING, Such As In Poetry Or Metaphor.
ALSO We See That => Our Problem Solving Brain Automatically Spontaneously Generates Constructs Creates, This Sense Of => Clear, Whole, Complete, Understandable, MEANINGS, Which Immediately Mentally Arrive Into Our Conscious Mind, Along With Any Mental Arrival Solution, AND Along With Our Ongoing Experience Of Primary Consciousness.…In Other Words Our Problem Solving Brain Makes Meaning, Sense of Truth, Beauty, Recognition, Insight, Knowing, Comprehension, Sense of Clear Understanding, and Importance. And All This With Felt Certainty.
… A) You should Study Metaphor in Poetry. For example, on a particularly effective line of poetry, you can suddenly, spontaneously, become aware of => Owen Barfield’s “Felt Change In Consciousness” as fully discussed in his book “Poetic Diction” =>
… B) For 2nd example => You should “Directly Experience The Sudden Making of Clarity, Understanding, & Meaning, when in your reading, you happen to encounter puzzlement in few words … then suddenly Flash of Insight, automatically, spontaneously, => Suddenly Clear Meaning Is **THERE** with **RELIEF** and **JOY** !!
… And from this, you should slowly come to the added realization that => “Our Problem Solving Brain, automatically, spontaneously, Generates Constructs Creates, not only sense of Meaning but also Sense of Truth, Beauty, Recognition, Insight, Knowing, Comprehension, Sense of Clear Understanding, and Importance”. And All This With Felt Certainty.
NOW A SECOND LISTING OF, & AN OVERAL SUMMARY Of => The Properties & Characteristics Of Each & Every Mental Arrival =>..!!As Is Directly Observed, These Above Mentioned Solutions, Which Automatically Spontaneously, “Out Of The Blue, Just Come-To-Mind”, Are => …1) Remarkably Good Solutions (Answers), arriving SPONTANEOUSLY & AUTOMATICALLY, achieving BEST OR NEAR BEST SOLUTIONS, most of the time.
…2) And these spontaneous solutions (answers), are exactly what is immediately needed, => In the real world of biological survival.
…3) Just Watch Your Mind At Work, And You Will See For Yourself, By Direct Observation => That These Automatic Spontaneous Generated, Constructed, Created, Creative …. Best Or Near Best Solutions …. Are Remarkably Good Solutions, and are Automatically “tailored” as required by the immediate problem(s) at hand!
…4) And are => derived from PREVIOUS Creative Best Or Near Best Solutions (Answers), and these were saved into Memory, for just this purpose. (Of course this depends on a future that will be relatively similar to previous experience, and “present solutions” will be predictably similar to “future solutions”.)
…4)cont AND PEASE NOTE WELL => At any moment of time, there is just ONE Optimal (Best or Near Best) Solution presented, as a Mental Arrival, to our Conscious Mind! …
…5) AND NOTE WELL => As an OBSERVED fact, the above 1) thru 4) solutions Mentally Arrive ”ONLY-One-At-A-Time”” And this is a necessary mathematical correlate of a SINGLE Best or Near Best Solution, which is mathematically necessarily for a SINGLY OPTIMAL (Best or Near Best) Answer / Solution.
…6) For a Problem Solving Brain to Generate, Construct, Create Mental Arrival Solutions => If you think about it => A SINGLE ”ONLY-One-At-A-Time”, Best Or Near Best Solutions, are the ONLY way really, to be able to do it, both in fundamental brain theory and in brains dealing with a practical real world problems in actual real world practice.
…7) Not only are these “only-one-at-a-time” , Single Optimal (Best or Near Best) Answer / Solution, remarkably good, for the situation at hand, they are ALSO Automatically “Tailored” to the ongoing immediate situation,
…7)cont, AND “only-one-at-a-time” , Single Optimal, is exactly what is required for quick “single minded” decisions, and quick action for survival.
…8) Again => These Optimal (Best or Near Best) Problem Solutions, are found by automatic, spontaneous, UN-Conscious Brain Processes, =>
…9) But It Is Puzzling Just WHY We Are Completely UN-Aware, Of The Workings Of Our Conscious Mind. (Click Here, And AFTER Comes Up Scroll Down To APPENDIX VII: Why ) . Also For More Discussion => Click Here To Read Why We MUST Be Unaware Of What Our Problem Solving Brain Is Up-To.
…10) In addition to the above => These “only-one-at-a-time” solutions depend on massive memory of a lifetime of person’s experiences, which, stored in brain, provide the data, for this very purpose, of finding such solutions.
… EXPLANATION => These Memories Of, Previously Generated, Constructed, Created, Creative Best or Near Best Partial Fit Solutions, Stored In The Brain, Are Used For Making Even Better New Creative Problem Solutions: These Are De-Novo, Entering New Territory: And thus Building Upon, And Creatively Going Well BEYOND Previous Solutions, That Were Saved To Brain’s Memory. => … THUS, Ever BETTER NEW Creative, Innovative Problem Solutions Mentally Arrive, which are In Turn Automatically Saved Back Into A Refurbished Brain Memory.
…11) Our Brain is thus effectively a Biological Brain Neural Network Optimizing Problem Solving, Content Addressable, Associative Memory. ” '' For An Explanation, Please Scroll Down To => And We Must Remember
…12) Concerning THESE ONLY ONE-AT-A-TIME SOLUTIONS => (HYPOTHESIS) => ONLY Those Automatic, Spontaneous Solutions (Answers), Will “Appear” Into Consciousness => IF AND ONLY IF => They Have Sufficient Optimal => “Fitness”, “Quality”, “Value”, “Merit”,“Utility”, “Relevance”, “Salience”, “Aptness”, “Mental Coherence Strength”.
…13) Mental Arrivals, such as => Eureka!, Epiphany, The Light Came On!!, A Flash of Insight It **AHA**, It Dawned On Me, I Suddenly Realized Or Noticed, and many others similar but less dramatic, are part of a much larger class of similar observed mental phenomena, which surely ALL arise from similar UNconscious Brain Processes.
…13)cont1 A Deep Study Of Every Mental Arrival, AND Closely Observing Such In Action, Shows What Our Problem Solving Brain Can Do, Suddenly, Spontaneously, and On-Automatic. You will see by direct observation of your own mind at work that => Consistent with requirements of Darwinian Evolution, that our brain rapidly, reliably, and accurately, comes up with amazingly correct solutions to life’s oncoming problems!
ATTENTION: Please see below 13)cont2 AND 13)cont3, AND -13)cont4 ,to learn how do your OWN DEEP STUDY of ''Mental Arrival's', …13)cont2 In Order To FULLY Understand The Mental Events Called Mental Arrivals, Persons Reading This WebPage Should => Start Collecting Data, For Their OWN => Deep Study Of Your Every Mental Arrival, AND Closely Observing Such In Action, Shows What Our Problem Solving Brain Can Do, Suddenly, Spontaneously, and On-Automatic. You will thus see by direct observation of your own mind at work that => Consistent with the requirements of Darwinian Evolution, that our brain rapidly, reliably, and accurately, comes up with amazingly correct solutions to life’s oncoming problems!
Steps Readers Should Follow, To Conduct Their OWN => Deep Study Of Mental Arrivals” As Follows =>
a) What was newly revealed by this Mental Arrival.
b) What Problem was revealed or solved.
c) What were you doing at this time.
d) Any other relevant information, along with the date & time.
…2) Every week, on your computer, type these scratch notes into a more formal document, and save, plus back-up copy onto a USB Memory Stick.
********************* …13)cont'3 How I, Henry Gurr, Began To Closely Watch, And Make Written Records, Of Persons’ (My Students) Flash of Insight Type Mental Responses. This Should Help Readers To Conduct Their OWN => Deep Study Of Mental Arrivals. ” => '
…In my 1987 talk, describe how I began to closely study Human Mental Responses., and make written records, [[http://www.venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/Documents/ProtoTheoryOfMindThesisPanorama#appendixVII | readers should also, start the practice of observing (and write notes on). their own flash of insights, by following my ecample steps. in my WebPage => APPENDIX XII: A Discussion Of Henry Gurr’s OWN Observations
…13)cont4 'How I, Henry Gurr, Continued To Closely Watch, And Make Written Records, Of Persons’ (My Students) Flash of Insight Type Mental Responses. AND From This Experience, Write The WebPage => THE AHA IN TEACHING & TUTORING The Flash of Insight, Resolving Student Conceptual Confusion, and One-on-One Help Session Tutoring. 8 Nov 2005
…This WebPage Lists The Character & Quanity Of The Different Written Records, AND Also Completely Reports (In APPENDIX’s), Nine Student Help Sessions, Where Significant **AHA** Flash of Isnight Events Were Observed.
********************* NOTE: Please Be Aware That There Are Authors Who Are Especially Good At Observing Their Own Mind At Work . These are => 1) Robert Pirsig in his book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” (ZMM) and
2) Owen Barfield, in his many books, most especially his “Poetic Diction” and “Saving The Appearances” .
… Both Pirsig & Barfield offer many examples, which have resulted from watching their own mind, and we can learn much from what they do in actual practice.
…14) A New MAJOR Idea For You To Eventually Fully Understand => “All Is Slide To => Better & Better PARTIAL FIT Problem Solutions.”
EDUCATED GUESS => In The Problem Solving Brain => If any beginning nascent Partial Fit (a small start), is allowed to survive, the newly formed activation may spread by finding increased coherence in other memories, and/or be amplified by its own positive feedback regeneration. A nascent Mental Arrival responds to its own positive feedback regeneration AND the ability to spread AND become stronger, likely all the while be supplying growing negative feedback (suppression), to the OTHER less-coherence-supporting nascent Mental Arrival Solutions.
…We can suppose eventually there is a Winner-Take-All: This is because the stronger coherences, grows at the diminishing expense of the other weaker ones. It is likely that such positive feedback regeneration, once started, would guarantee a growing (ever winning) Single Solution. And starting from nascent, the developing Mental Arrival, will grow to saturation and thus can’t self-grow any more. In other words: The Positive Feedback Growth is Self-Limiting. This provides an answer, to how endless, UN-stable positive feedback, will not lead to disaster: And in which case (hypothesis), rather than disaster, the saturation is big enough to actually “break thru” into a full Mental Arrival into Conscious Mind!
…15) OUR BRAINS ARE BUILT BY EVOLUTION TO DO THIS, Overall, As Is Required By Survival!
…16) THESE IMPORTANT ASPECTS, OF OUR PROBLEM SOLVING BRAIN ARE OBVIOUS!
… However, of course, it is only “Obvious” if you know when, where, and how to look . And it is the purpose of this WebPage (and my Cognitive Theory (Explanation) to help you see this “Obvious”, by helping you to Know How To Watch Your Own Mind At Work!!
…17) OF COURSE, IT IS A FIRST ORDER PUZZLE, Just How The Above Is => At All Possible (Even Indeed Thinkable), For A Physical Biological Brain, To Accomplish As Discussed Above => “All Is Slide To => Better & Better PARTIAL FIT Problem Solutions.” !!
…18) AND THE ANSWER TO THIS PUZZLE, Is Factually And Mathematically Established by the Physics Theory of Princeton Physicist J J Hopfield.
…AND To understand just how this, at all, could be possible, especially the role of Our Brain’s Memory, please especially study => Hopfield Neuron Network Theory, in My MPPS Article =>
…19) The Major Problems Of Perceptual Blindness.
…Thus, when you are actively watching one set of actions, this shuts out seeing any other action(s), and you entirely fail to see other concurrent very obvious actions.
…B) In other words => When your mind has been recently primed to see certain things, and in finding these, is thus diverted and blocked from seeing others. Example: You were told to look for one item, and thus fail to see others. Only later you see the other thing, and only then realize what has happened. NOTE: For an especially effective demonstration of Blindness, Please scroll down to => Professor David Strom …. But Did You See The Gorilla?
…C) This B) is “visual priming”: Similar can happen when you see the familiar, and overlook the unfamiliar.
…D) Mental Blockage happens when dealing with Difficult Intellectual Territory => Students or researchers, when trying to understand a complex book (or research topic), may be stalled. And then, after minutes, hours, or days, finally a break-thru can suddenly automatically spontaneously, ''Mentally Arrive, with a Good Solution, that yealds the Needed Understanding. But sometimes, only after a long struggle, and possibly giving up temporarily.
…E) Perceptual Blindness has major consequences in daily life => No matter how urgent, important, & necessary are your actions that MUST be done in pending future life events, unless memories of these “important, & necessary actions”, automatically, spontaneously, come into conscious mind, they are equivalent of ABSOLUTELY NON-EXISTENT & VOID: And for all practical purposes => GONE! ABSOLUTELY NO AWARENESS!!
….AND THESE VITAL & NECESSARY ACTIONS, might NEVER come back to Conscious Mind !!!
…G) So, when a good idea comes to mind => DON’T TAKE A CHANCE LOOSING IT! => QUICK Write down scratch notes immediately. Then, as soon as possible, follow-up with edit improvements onto your scratch notes. And then promptly get your ideas fully written up, into digital document, and SaveAs, plus save BAK Copy.
…H) Naturally, if you DO YES get (the 4 inches above mentioned) “fortuitous reminder or prompt”, even the Sudden Mental Arrival of a tiny shred, your Problem Solving Brain, likely can reassemble, into conscious mind, the exact facts & ideas, that you need to know.
…Here please remember => These wonderful and powerful, Automatic & Spontaneous, Problem Solving Abilities, come from our => “Biological Brain’s Neural Network Optimizing Problem Solving, Content Addressable, Associative Memory.” !!
…I) Also please remember => A person’s existing Mental Blockages, Perceptual-Blindnesses, Confusions, Or Doubt, often is => Cleared up by the Problem Solving Brain, by completing these standard steps => 1) Identify a prevopir ocurance of Blockage Problem that has as yet no good solution. 2) Then start an organixed study of it, which will start a corresp9nding mind preparation, 3) Extensive Struggle To Solve The “Problem”, and 4) Then Quit & Wait! 5) So … Eventually(an hour, or the next day, etc) the Problem Solving Brain, will automatically, spontaneously, will come back to this “Problem”, with the Mental Arrival Of A Sudden Solution, because the brain may, by earlier having been exposed to the confusing scattered pieces, will with wait time, automatically & spontaneously, with no effort, assemble the previous “Blockages” into a New Whole Clear Understanding: Just as Prof Michael Polanyi said =>
… “ “.. being aware of a bit of particular bits [then our mind automatically, spontaneously, moves] to grasping how they hang together, what is their joint meaning, the real whole of which they are parts or to which they are dues. Sometimes when we have got used to this operation, it is so easy that it is not noticed; Sometimes when we are applying it to something new, it is very difficult and [when we have the [suddenly] illuminating “come-together” to full understanding this typically, constitutes discovery. It is done by shifting [automatically, spontaneously], our attention from the particular to the whole, the joint meaning, and when we do this it changes the way we are aware of the particulars -(as we see in the picture puzzle when the lines that we first thought were branches look quite different once we have seen them as features of a face).” ''
...J) Mental Blockages as mentioned in above D) & E), also frequently happen to Professional Scientists. ->…
… Which Brings To Mind Thomas Kuhn’s Book “Structure Of Scientific Revolutions”, where Professor Kuhn does a very good job at explaining the in’s and out’s of how and why, at first the majority of practicing scientists, as a matter of multiply demonstrated facts, actually reject and ignore new important major scientific discoveries & related new theories. Essentially they were nearly permanently Perceptually Blind to important new Developing Theories. … Dr Kuhn as much as said “The older generation must die off, before a new Theory could be adopted”. ...K) The Whole Topic Procrastination, Is Also Where Mental Blockages also happens => These boil down to a person’s brain steering them away from starting The Big Job, that their brain “knows” will be a painful project, despite the project’s ultimate importance!
….To read more on Procrastination AND How To Get Around Its Debilitating Grips, please Right Click on Menu At Left, FIFTH Blue Link Down and open in a New Tab. In Reading The Above About “Mental Blockages”, My Biology Professor Friend David Strom Suggested =>… But Did You See The Gorilla? The Problem With Inattentional Blindness. Where => The Most Effective Cloaking Device Is The Human Mind.
NOW THE MAJOR PUNCH LINE => IF YOU THINK LONG AND HARD ABOUT THIS, YOU WILL EVENTUALLY REALIZE ***AHA*** =>
a) Our surroundings (perception), and
b) Awareness of our body, its processes, & motions, and
c) Awareness of our own thoughts.
d) These together form what we call “Consciousness Awareness”!! Herein called “Primary Consciousness”.
Indeed, Properly Understood, The SAME Brain Systems that create the above mentioned (A thru J), “Mental Arrivals”, (As Mentioned Above), But Now Operating On A Continuous Basis, Each Second Of Our Waking Day, Are CREATING Our Conscious Mind !! And As We Can Directly Observe => These So Created “Conscious Awareness’s” automatically & spontaneously arise from our brain’s internal processes, despite the fact that => We have absolutely NO Conscious Awareness of these brain processes, as a fact. BOTTOM LINE => For The Problems of Life Coming At Us => Our Problem Solving Brain, In The Process of Finding Creative Best or Near Best Problem Solutions (Answers) Which THEN “Appear” as Mental Arrivals, into our Conscious Mind. I) CREATES (On a Continuous Basis), What We Know As MIND,
And in Process, II) Completes The Steps To CREATE => CONSCIOUSNESS !!
************************************************************** NOTE: Please Be Aware That There Are Authors Who Are Especially Good At Observing Their Own Mind Creates Best Or Near Best Solutions (Answers). Automatically & Spontaneously. This includes => Robert Pirsig in his book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” (ZMM) … Mr Pirsig offers many examples, which have resulted from watching their own mind, and we can learn much from what he does in actual practice.
************************************************************** Just Watch This Fun “Power Of 10” Video, And You Will See For Yourself =>A) How Rapidly Your Problem Solving Brain, Produced Remarkably Good Solutions, To The VERY Unfamiliar & Quickly Changing Scenes During This “Video Trip To The Edge Of The Known Universe!”
B) AND This Demonstrates Another “Property” Of How Your Mind Works! =>
… You Will Notice, As Did For Me, Henry Gurr => AFTER the long trip to the Dismal Cold Total Darkness Of the Edge Of The Universe, It Is A Noticeable Nice Relief, to AGAIN Be Back At The Comfortable, Warm, Colorful, Surface Of Home Earth!!
************************************************************** ALL Of The Various Discussions On The Topic Of CONSCIOUSNESS, That Henry Gurr Could Find In His Documents & Emails, Are Now Collected Into One Webpage, At Blue Link Below.… One of the neat things about Consciousness, is that we know we are conscious, AND further, We know that, we know that, we know that. we are Conscious!! Plus we know that other persons (and even animals), around us are Coconscious!
APPENDIX I: HENRY GURR’S “EXPLANATION OF HOW OUR MIND WORKS”, IS FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH, & NICELY SUPPORTED BY, “DUAL PROCESS” THEORIES OF HUMAN MENTAL FUNCTIONING AND CONVERSELY:…Professor Daniel Kahneman Got It Right in The Title of His Book “Thinking, Fast and Slow “ . (2011) .
"System 1" (Thinking Fast), is fast, instinctive and emotional; and
"System 2" (Thinking Slow), is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The book delineates rational and non-rational motivations or triggers associated with each type of thinking process, and how they complement each other, … ”
… In Our Problem Solving Brain, Unconscious Processes, Automatically, Spontaneously, Generates (Constructs Creates), With Dual Process Theory’s “Thinking Fast” => Well Describe Our Brain Systems That Create The Above Mentioned A) thru H), “Mental Arrivals: AND
APPENDIX II: IMPORTANT IDEA => Our Problem Solving Brain => Simultaneously Solves On-Coming-Life’s-Problems, And In The Same Process, Act As A Memory Retrieval.1) Thus, any and all Problem Solutions, that Mentally Arrive into our Conscious Mind, should be considered “Memory Retrievals”, despite the fact that we don’t ordinarily think of them as such.
2) As also will be discussed => How knowledge, experience, facts, and ideas must already be in your Brain’s Memory, available for our brain’s UN-Conscious problem solving processes, and from this your Problem Solving Brain is able to Generate (Construct, Create), a Solution that then Mentally Arrives into your Consciousness, whereupon you then “See” or “Perceive” or “Understand”: For example, to “get” the punchline of a joke, and fully suddenly "understand" the humor. Enough Knowledge must be in your brain’s memory; because problem solving requires memory, indeed massive amounts of brain’s memory!.
3) ''' AND Be Sure to Note Well This Is =>An Optimizing Creative Memory Cycle =>, Which Achieves New Learning, Refinement Of Skills, Better Habits, Improved, Solidified, Updated Knowledge, And Many More Examples.
… This is A Cycle Of Regenerative Upward Spiral Of Compounded, Creative, Building-On-(And Beyond)-The-Previous, Ever Improved Problem Solutions, Then Stored In Memory. 4) The Cycle Steps Are => Original Memory > Memory ReAccesed > Provides Memory Base For Perception & Other What Do Next > Problem Solving Brain Mental Arrival to Consciousness > With Future-Plans, Emotions, & Feelings Etc > Action > Success > Refine & Improve Solution Back Into Memory > Enhance & ReFurbish Memory. =>
5) Above Shortened To => A Regenerative Memory Cycle Of ReAccess & ReFurbish =>
6) Above Abbreviate To => ReAccess & ReFurbish Cycle.
7) Useful Acronym => RRC << For more related Discussion & Problem Solving Brain usages > See 18 Each > Edit > Find > …RRC …
…This cycle is also discussed in the Click Here For => Single and Double-Loop Learning, discussed and diagramed, half way down this Wikipedia Page.
8) After any Mental Arrival, you typically will remember the new idea, answer or problem solution: Thus you not only have a new experience, you have new knowledge, which in turn automatically will make newly refurbished brain memories. Thus we see that => Brain Memory is both required for problem solving, and (increased) memory, is the instantaneous result of problem solving, most especially if (and pretty much only if) Mentally Arrived into Consciousness!!
NOTE: It is likely that the brain’s inter-neuron connections that were accessed, to achieve a Solution, were the self-same neurons, that are sub sequentially changed / up-dated, to effectively “hold” the new memories, as a result of the New Solution so created into Consciousness.
Click Here To Read Entire MPPS Article. 9) There are important functional reasons why we are totally un-aware of our UNconscious Brain Processes.
10) Just how the above is at all possible (even indeed thinkable), for a physical biological brain, to accomplish the above , is factually and mathematically established by the Physics Theory of Princeton Physicist J J Hopfield, which is discussed elsewhere on this WebPage you are reading now.
11) An additional important Property of Mental Arrivals Is At > Top > Do > Edit > Find > …. (Even Inexplicable)
12) Although the Discussion Points, Above 1) thru 11), are fairly compete, Please remember that => Our Problem Solving Brain Can & Will Make Available, As Mental Arrives into Conscious Mind, are a whole lot more, than what is stated 1) thru 11).
And We Must Remember => … In ALL Circumstances & Instants Of Time => What is really happening in our “Biological Brain’s Neural Network Optimizing Problem Solving, Content Addressable, Associative Memory” => Is Invisible Tiny Changing Of Inter-Neuron Connection Strengths, which is what underlies all of what we “see”, “think”, and “become aware of”.
[[#AppendixIII] APPENDIX: III There Are Reasons Why You Actually Might Want To Look Into My Cognitive Theory, Where “Our Problem Solving Brain, Automatically & Spontaneously Finds Optimal (Best or Near Best) Solutions To Life’s Oncoming Problems.” … Which Is “A General Theory (Explanation) Of How Our Mind Works”, And As Such Studying It Closely & Extensively Will, I Promise, Guaranteed As Follows =>…Besides providing a new radically different & significantly improved understanding of Mind, my Theory (Explanation) will positively impact your life by guiding & helping you (beyond good knowledge you already well know), to achieve in practically any activity with => A) Increased personal efficiency in various chosen tasks, especially writing composition. .
B) Faster recognize what to do to “step-around” mental & physical blockages.
C) Improve creativity & make more frequent Sudden, Automatic Spontaneous, Insights, that just come into mind, similar to that of the Flash of Insight type Mental Arrival events.
D) Plus many other improved abilities, which you can then formalized into refined procedures.
E) The overall result can be improved performance, Ever Better, Easier, & Faster, on whatever you are trying to do:
F) And will make the time and effort to study my Theory (Explanation), well worth your investment.
….Indeed, for these very reasons, you might should study my theory (Explanation), because as Doulas Hofstadter said =>
Some Final Ideas For You To Remember:
Please let me know what you think. APPENDIX IV: Interesting Excerpts From Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy WebPage Titled “Consciousness”. These passages, agree with and support Henry Gurr’s “Cognitive Theory (Explanation) Of How Our Mind Works. ''… “Perhaps no aspect of mind is more familiar or more puzzling than consciousness and our conscious experience of self and world. The problem of consciousness is arguably the central issue in current theorizing about the mind. Despite the lack of any agreed upon theory of consciousness, there is a widespread, if less than universal, consensus that an adequate account of mind requires a clear understanding of it and its place in nature. We need to understand both what consciousness is and how it relates to other, nonconscious, aspects of reality. …
AppendixV: Interesting Excerpts From Wikipedia WebPage Titled “Mind”. These passages, agree with and support Henry Gurr’s “Explanation (Theory) Of How Our Mind Works. ''…”The mind (adjective form: mental) is that which thinks, imagines, remembers, wills, and senses, or is the set of faculties responsible for such phenomena.[2][3][4] The mind is also associated with experiencing perception, pleasure and pain, belief, desire, intention, and emotion. The mind can include conscious and non-conscious states as well as sensory and non-sensory experiences.”
Appendix VI: Attention Workers In Neuroscience, Brain Science, Philosophy & Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Learning Theory, Researchers and Theoreticians of Mind, Consciousness, & Brain Development.To Brain & Mind Scientist => This Webpage You Are Currently Reading Is Titled => “Properties & Characterst9cs of Mental Arrivals” where the “Official Start” is at the page top above. Please Know That This WebPage, And It’s Linked Pages => 1) Introduces Henry Gur’s entirely new kind of => Cognitive Theory Explanation Of How Our Mind Works, which Is Fully Confirmed By Direct Observation. And =>
…This Theory Explanation, Offers A Very Viable Answer To The Mind-Body Problem, And In So Doing, Completely Closes The Explanatory Gap. 2) Are a General Theory Explanation, and has major parts that well agree with the conclusions of other experts, but the overall panorama of understanding is mostly not presented in existing literature.
3) This view Into The Workings Of Our Mind, is so different that => At first reading you will have difficulty perceiving what it says, and indeed at first, you will not believe it has any truth.
4) For this reason: In your reading of the below (and other linked WebPages), you will have to go slow & let the ideas sink in, so you can begin to see that what is said, actually fits your own direct experience. This way the truth of what is presented will gradually become evident.
5) And you also will gradually come to see, that the ideas & conclusions of this Theory Explanation, do in fact, stand true to your own direct observation.
5) So, if you are young, and of agile flexible mind, and at the start of your career, you will discover this overall viewpoint, offers a way for you to see into The Workings Of Your Own Mind, not to be found anywhere else.
6) And from this, as you will discover, you also will become more effective in your personal daily life, learn how to break out of problem hangups, and have more creative ideas. Effectively you will have a => A Brain Owner’s Manual.
7) And, from this, better understand the mind of other persons, and thus be able to better communicate with them.
8) AND as can be directly observed => The Mental Arrival Results of our Problem Solving Brain, are exactly the Source All Human Creativity!
You Actually Will See It Happen, As Mental Arrivals, Automatically, Spontaneously, Again And Again! You Actually Will See It Happen, As Mental Arrivals, Automatically, Spontaneously, Again And Again!
Below Is A Listing Of Henry Gurr’s NINE Cognitive Theory (Explanation) Pages, Which You Can Study To Learn About. …. You Will Find That => These Are The Best Available Cognitive Theory Of How Our Mind Works, => In the Creation of Sudden, Automatic, Spontaneous Mental Arrivals, by UN-Conscious Brain Processes: This Theory Explanation, Which Is Confirmed By Direct Observation, Also Offers A Very Viable Answer To “The Mind-Body Problem”, And Effectively Closes “The Explanatory Gap”.… … … As You See In The Main Menu, Upper Left, Starting At The TOP =>
… THEN Suggest You Continue Reading Next Page Below: 2nd Blue Menu Link: Collected Properties & Characteristics All Mental Arrivals Such As => , Such As => Eureka!, Epiphany, The Light Came On!!, A Flash of Insight It **AHA**, It Dawned On Me, Light Bulb As In Cartoons, I Suddenly Realized Or Noticed, I Suddenly Realized Or Noticed, And Many Others Similar But Less Dramatic.
3rd Blue Menu Link: H Gurr’s FULL DETAIL Expounding => A Unified Panorama View Into “How Our Mind Works”, 4th Blue Menu Link: A Very Important IDEA => Even Partial Fit Problem Solution Is Highly Useful, especially for how Our Problem Solving Brain so easily gives us a Best Understanding for 1) Camouflage, 2) Concept Confusion, and3) Figures of Speech, Such as Metaphor, Analogy, Allegory, Simile, Similar, Similarity, and 22 more. 5th Blue Menu Link: Henty Gurr’s Explanation of => “How Our Mind Works”, Helps Illuminate What’s Happening In Procrastination, And Helps Avoid Procrastination’s Blockages. 6th Blue Menu Link: Hopfield Neuron Network Theory => Illuminates How Brains Generate (Construct Create) Optimal Solutions To “Life’s Problems Coming At Us”, plus Links To Other H Gurr Writing On Mind. 7th Blue Menu Link: Constructivist Epistemology +An Anatomy Of An Idea Come To Mind, Which Is A => Full Exhaustive Listing of Mental Arrivals, Such As => Eureka!, Epiphany, The Light Came On!!, A Flash of Insight It **AHA**, It Dawned On Me, Light Bulb As In Cartoons, I Suddenly Realized Or Noticed, And MANY OTHERS Similar, But Less Dramatic. 8th Blue Menu Link: It’s A Marvel! It’s SO Incredible!! …. The Wonderous, Wonderful, Amazing, Gift Of Consciousness!!.
9th Blue Menu Link: But How Do We Know What’s Good? [Or Best?],. .... You Just See It. ” ''
NOTE: A Good Place To Start Is First Blue Link Above, And Then Continue With 2nd Blue Link Above. HSG-OrigCmpsdForEmail. 221023-25 HSG-ConvertToZMMQPg:221102-04 + 221214 + 230124 + 230512., 230924. 240307-14, 250517-20.
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