analyzing and understanding the human mind

Analyzing and understanding: The human mind

According to John Locke (1632-1704) the mind at birth is like a blank tablet on which the experience gained through the senses is recorded. Locke maintained that, of itself, the mind has no innate power to grasp reality. In acquiring knowledge the mind is not, however completely passive for reflection plays an important role. By the process of associating experiences received through different senses, by extending the application of past experience to new situations and old ideas react on one another. Complex ideas are built up from simple ones and can be broken down into the components of original sensory experiences, and reflections. This was known as empiricism.
I would care to expound on Locke’s theory for a moment. Understanding that this great mind had the disadvantage of being born in the seventeenth century and having his essay published in 1670. I can clearly comprehend his primitive expression. I, in turn analyze the mind as a DNA-based computer. At birth both, the mind and the computer, are empty. Both are programmed by its parent and siblings, and data is inputted. Experience gained through different senses if you connect a microphone and camera to the computer, both can register and process sound, volume, and exhibit photographic memory. If both are ignored, both will command the vessel that incases the mind to respond to neglect. Both have memory banks that through reflection both can extract data. Both can multi-task by opening more than one window at a time. Hence the expression ‘I’m thinking of a million things at once’. Both strategize and analyze.
However, I’m not completely convinced with John Locke’s statement ‘the mind has no innate power to grasp reality’.
Let’s analyze the youngest mind: an infant
An infant is fed and diapered and laid to rest. When she is wet again, she will cry to be changed, and the same if hungered.
This is routine for the next three months. Scheduled feedings, diaperings, baths, etc.
Alas she cries an un-scheduled cry, totally out of the blue, the parent (let’s say the father. I’m partial to fathers, me being one myself) hurries to tend to his daughter. Once he picks her up she stops crying. Father carries daughter while gathering everything he needs to assist him. First he tries to feed her, but he can’t seem to get the bottle to stay in. After a while he sees the problem: the baby’s tongue is pushing the nipple out of her mouth. Father assess’, daughter is not hungry, she must be wet. Father puts daughter down to change her. Daughter starts to cry. Father removes diaper: to his surprise, daughter is not wet, but she’s crying such a river. What could it be? Father picks daughter up to comfort her, daughter stops crying. Father and daughter run through the cycle once more. Father assesses, daughter just wants to be held and father obliges until daughter is comfortably off to sleep. What have we learned?
1) Daughter (after three months on earth) has grasped the reality, that when she makes a certain sound people rush to accommodate her.
2) Daughter (after three months on earth) was aware of the sounds she made and had to choose one that would get her the results she needed.
a) the gurgling sound (no)
b) the baby-talking sound (no)
c) the baby-laughing sound (no)
d) the crying sound (yes)
3) Daughter (after three months on earth) was also aware of her necessities and assessed that she was
a) wet (no)
b) hungry (no)
c) cold (no)
d) lonely (yes)
4) Daughter (after three months on earth) can predict the actions and re-actions of each parent.
5) Daughter (after three months on earth) is aware which parent will give her the results she’s seeking and chooses the opportune time to execute her plan. Had it been mother, who’s mostly with daughter, she would be wise to the game and turn on the mobile or put daughter in a bouncer. Any deterrent to avoid constantly holding her, so she can work around the house) and of course spoiling her. Father did not, father was a willing participant, alas daughter was victorious.
Daughter: assessed the situation
1) had an objective
2) devised a strategy
3) contemplated a target
4) gathered weapons and ammunition
5) waited for opportunity
6) executed her plan

20,000 parents have been surveyed on Myspace; 87% have had this experience, thus proving the mind as innate power to grasp reality.

The mind has three states:
Consciousness, un-consciousness and sub-consciousness:
Consciousness: Doing or acting with critical awareness. Having mental faculties undulled by sleep, faintness or stupor.
Consciousness – the quality or state of being aware; the totality of conscious states of an individual. The upper level of mental life of which the person is aware, as contrasted with unconscious processes.
Un-: Having meaning positively opposite to that of the base word.
Un- – Do the opposite of: reverse (a specified action) contrary to:
Un-consciousness: Doing or acting without critical awareness

Unaware. Instinct [sleepwalking]: driving through a neighborhood, a ball bounces in front of you. Instinctively you hit the brakes; a child comes from the sidewalk and retrieves it. Not thinking you check your rear-view mirror and continue cautiously.

Sub: Under, below, secretly from below, beneath, bordering on below the surface.
Sub-consciousness: In my analysis:
I liken the sub-conscious to the internet experience. While browsing the internet you enter different websites, hundreds of windows are open to you. You window-shop, browse, research, download songs, etc. You’ve been to hundreds of sites. You have not signed up for anything specific. You’re just on there having fun. You log off until the next day.
You log on the next day and have ‘e-mails’ from sites you never registered with. You have ‘POP Ups” trying to coerce you into purchasing. Every hour you are flooded with ‘junk mail’ and you’re wondering ‘how did they get my e-mail address?’ You never registered with any of them.
Well, once you enter a website, cookies attach themselves to your signal and you’ve opened a line for them to trace back to your ISP. It’s like they follow you home and live in your basement and annoy the hell out of you, unless you go into your hard drive and delete them.
Let’s analyze the mature mind:
Your every day life occurrences: You go to school or the mall; you have coffee, meet and greet people, try on clothes, shoes; eat lunch, talk on the cell phone, etc. You’ve done this on a regular basis for years: meet your boyfriend for dinner, go to baseball games, go swimming, jump off a diving board, or two. You’re just living life and having fun. Whatever you’ve done with your life – you physically contacted, touched, tasted, smelled, heard and seen life.
Imagine you’re sleeping and in your dream you’re falling (I won’t pretend to interpret your dream), but you wake up, heart beating fast, sweating – it’s like you were really there, it was so real.
Life’s cookies have attached themselves to your sub-conscious hard drive. And while going about your day, something you encountered sent you a subliminal ‘e-mail’. Whatever you’ve seen, read, smelled, tasted or touched made an intimate impact on you, and you were unaware. So when you went to sleep (I don’t like to use this word, because ‘sleep’ in past history meant death, and some say ‘sleep is the cousin of death’. I’d like to incorporate ‘rest’ instead. Plus, as you know, the mind never sleeps) your consciousness checked your sub-conscious hard drive in your state of un-consciousness (rest) and opened a subliminal ‘e-mail’ called ‘falling’. ‘Falling’ has impacted your sub-conscious, whether you’re diving or just felt strongly about someone else’s fall; or just looking over an edge thinking of falling. ‘Falling’ has impacted you beneath the surface of your consciousness and every day life. As you walk through life there are millions of subliminal messages around you. They’re not aimed at any particular individual, but they are meant to cause a response (to vote a certain way, or something as simple as buying refreshments). But one must understand: Life is the internet. The world, country, state, county and city we live in, is the internet. The sub-conscious is just acting as the at-home-modem that connects us to the internet. The sub-conscious is not the internet, just the ISP (Internet Service Provider). And your dreams are your ‘e-mails’ from interacting with life (‘the internet’)
Have you ever had an idea just pop into your head? For example: You’re working in your office and out of nowhere you picture a ‘Jamba Juice Smoothie’ and you want to taste the citrus-acid on your tongue; the coolness of the juices. But you’re at work and it’s not break time yet, so you keep working. Then, while you’re at your desk, you picture fruit: Sliced bananas, strawberries, pineapples sitting on fresh white snow, and your mouth tries to taste it, but can’t. And you think: “I can just sneak out for five minutes.” But no – it’s not professional. These are life’s ‘internet pop-ups.
The sub-conscious has been sent a subliminal message and the sub-consciousness has relayed the subliminal message (re-processed in visualized format) to your state of consciousness, which in turn allows you to consciously visualize the recreation of the fruit in real time. Hence the term ‘pop-up’.
In my analysis I’ve dabbled in many stages of the mind, in its different states you’ve seen:
- Conscious interaction with the conscious (daughter and father)
- Sub-conscious interaction with the un-conscious (sleep walking)
- Conscious interaction with the un-conscious (driving)
- Conscious interaction with the sub-conscious (e-mails)
- Sub-conscious interaction with the conscious (pop-ups)

This is just a few stages of the human mind. If you hold a jewelers’’ loop to a perfect diamond, you probably still wouldn’t see as many facets and levels as the mind itself. Most deter, or refrain from analyzing the mind, because of its complexities, and its unstableness. Also, technology has yet to come up with a legitimate instrument to calibrate its levels accurately; thus becoming a non-exact science. But through association, if we can begin to understand the similarities, and if we can comprehend the functions of the things that act and respond similar, then we’ve begun to unravel one of life’s most complex puzzles.

This is just a fundamental expression and manifestation of my analysis for the average person to understand. Any reproduction or duplication without the express written consent of the author or the publisher is a violation of applicable laws. This concludes my analysis.