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How a brain acquires the world
Scenario: Picking up a glass of water and taking a sip.
The hand reaches to the glass. Through the fingertips the brain gets to know the glass is cold, its surface is smooth or rough, it's clear or it has carvings and ornaments.
Visually the eyes see something's in the glass, they register its color, if you can look through the liquid or not, they also observe the color of the glass itself and the ornaments drawn on it.
If the hand pushes the glass for a tiny length, the ears hear what it sounds like if the glass moves over the ground it stands on. Visually, the eyes take notice that the liquid starts to move in the vessel too.
If then the hand tries to pick the glass up, it needs to learn how to do it.
It needs to realize how to coordinate its fingers and the single musles and sinews that are attached to the hand to get the glass off the table without it, primarily, falling to the floor and secondly keep it in a balance so the liquid isn't spilled. - A matter of feeling through the tips and coordinating it with the visuals that the eyes deliver to the brain.
When it gets it up to the mouth, again the temperature of the glass gets detected. If it is too hot, the brain assumes the liquid in it also is hot and it puts it back in its place on the table.
If this is not the case, the hand again tries to figure how to make the water go inside the mouth cavity. It tries to reach it with lips and tongue, it tries to tilt the glass so the water runs down the vessel into the mouth. If one method does not succeed as much as desired, the brain tries another method.
As water hits the mouth cavity and moistens the tongue, the liquid in the glass generates the image of its taste. Is it spicy, is it sweet, is it salty, is it bitter or is it acidic?
By putting the glass back into its horizontal position and back on the table, the experience is fulfilled.
The brain saves back every information it gathered through the process, single as well as in connection with solely these impressions.
A time when doing the same action again, it will remember it - how it did it, what effects it had upon itself and the surroundings, how it felt, what it looked like, what it sounded like.
Unless being proved different, the brain archives the liquid "water" in connection with "cold", picking up a glass with a smooth or a rough surface, moving it with the sound it made when being pushed on the table, the glass itself being heavy and requiring muscular power to get it up.
If one or more impressions don't fit the effect of the action, or an effect is learned that naturally is not caused by this action, the brain puts it into the archive and when taking out that knowledge acquired, the brain is confused over its action not having the effect that it wanted to achieve.
Or worse: The brain makes the body execute an action and people watching it confusedly give you the hint that this doesn't work that you're trying to do. For example, they give you the hint that a real fish tank can't be zoomed in like on a screen of a tablet computer. Either you need to get closer to the glass to see better with your own eyes, or you need to get adapted to the fact that the vision that you have is the best you can get.
If you eat chicken and it is incredibly hot-spiced, when knowing nothing about seasoning, you may not ever touch it again because the brain associates chicken with "so hot you cannot eat it".
One information gets archived in connection with at least one other.
If a brain is missing these other impressions to the senses, it only has a limited impression of what a circumstance really is like.
If wrong associations get put into the archive, things which don't naturally depend on each other or are in no connection at all - like playing a video game, but listing to completely different music and no sound effects -, a wrong imagination is created of what a subject is like.
Like switching on the TV when wanting something to eat.
And it further leads to actions which logically don't make any sense, but makes sense in the dimension of a brain that learned to connect a thing with another, even though it does not suit the first.
The hand reaches to the glass. Through the fingertips the brain gets to know the glass is cold, its surface is smooth or rough, it's clear or it has carvings and ornaments.
Visually the eyes see something's in the glass, they register its color, if you can look through the liquid or not, they also observe the color of the glass itself and the ornaments drawn on it.
If the hand pushes the glass for a tiny length, the ears hear what it sounds like if the glass moves over the ground it stands on. Visually, the eyes take notice that the liquid starts to move in the vessel too.
If then the hand tries to pick the glass up, it needs to learn how to do it.
It needs to realize how to coordinate its fingers and the single musles and sinews that are attached to the hand to get the glass off the table without it, primarily, falling to the floor and secondly keep it in a balance so the liquid isn't spilled. - A matter of feeling through the tips and coordinating it with the visuals that the eyes deliver to the brain.
When it gets it up to the mouth, again the temperature of the glass gets detected. If it is too hot, the brain assumes the liquid in it also is hot and it puts it back in its place on the table.
If this is not the case, the hand again tries to figure how to make the water go inside the mouth cavity. It tries to reach it with lips and tongue, it tries to tilt the glass so the water runs down the vessel into the mouth. If one method does not succeed as much as desired, the brain tries another method.
As water hits the mouth cavity and moistens the tongue, the liquid in the glass generates the image of its taste. Is it spicy, is it sweet, is it salty, is it bitter or is it acidic?
By putting the glass back into its horizontal position and back on the table, the experience is fulfilled.
The brain saves back every information it gathered through the process, single as well as in connection with solely these impressions.
A time when doing the same action again, it will remember it - how it did it, what effects it had upon itself and the surroundings, how it felt, what it looked like, what it sounded like.
Unless being proved different, the brain archives the liquid "water" in connection with "cold", picking up a glass with a smooth or a rough surface, moving it with the sound it made when being pushed on the table, the glass itself being heavy and requiring muscular power to get it up.
If one or more impressions don't fit the effect of the action, or an effect is learned that naturally is not caused by this action, the brain puts it into the archive and when taking out that knowledge acquired, the brain is confused over its action not having the effect that it wanted to achieve.
Or worse: The brain makes the body execute an action and people watching it confusedly give you the hint that this doesn't work that you're trying to do. For example, they give you the hint that a real fish tank can't be zoomed in like on a screen of a tablet computer. Either you need to get closer to the glass to see better with your own eyes, or you need to get adapted to the fact that the vision that you have is the best you can get.
If you eat chicken and it is incredibly hot-spiced, when knowing nothing about seasoning, you may not ever touch it again because the brain associates chicken with "so hot you cannot eat it".
One information gets archived in connection with at least one other.
If a brain is missing these other impressions to the senses, it only has a limited impression of what a circumstance really is like.
If wrong associations get put into the archive, things which don't naturally depend on each other or are in no connection at all - like playing a video game, but listing to completely different music and no sound effects -, a wrong imagination is created of what a subject is like.
Like switching on the TV when wanting something to eat.
And it further leads to actions which logically don't make any sense, but makes sense in the dimension of a brain that learned to connect a thing with another, even though it does not suit the first.