What Produces Awareness and Understanding? The Content Generative Cycle of the Sub-Conscious Mind
We know from our experience that we seize to be consciously aware of the environment when we are asleep, but when we for example enter to REM sleep voices such as sirens may become a part of the dream we are experiencing as a result of the endless content generative cycle our sub-conscious brain functions go through in relativity with the sensory data and as it is hypothesized, the already existing data of the past experiences.
Perception begins from the moment when the luckily massless photons come in contact with the retina, activating in relativity with their frequency a content generative cycle in the brains, first received in the visual cortex by individual neurons, from where they exceed to other regions of the visual cortex, recognizing patterns, producing content to the representation of the environment. Similar content generative cycles from different forms of sensory data are active in the different regions of the brain, and it is only the sum of these content generative cycles that produce the content of the awareness, including memories and semantic content such as the meaning of a cup and how it is used. These content generative cycles are the sub-conscious side of the human consciousness, and they are all interconnected to the conscious, although the area of the visual cortex that receives individually the stimulus from the retina hardly gains data from the region that first receives the stimulus from the frequencies of sound.
The existence of the content generative cycles also teaches us how the experiences change the contents of the awareness as the complexity of synaptic connections between neurons increases and the amount of memories mount. This, and the fact that the circumstances we face are constantly different causes the phenomenon that the reality as we experience it, can never be exactly the same, thus producing the constancy of change. And it is in this constancy of change in the contents of the awareness the person must learn to guide his or her existence; to what and to where he or she wants direct the development of the sub-conscious brain functions. Why? Because it is in relativity with the representational awareness we choose the course of actions we will take from career development to the spiritual goals, all developing what we will intuitively be aware of without having to consciously valuate matters again and again, being one of the greatest significances in the process of learning, thus also bringing out the fact how the intelligence can be developed by teaching our sub-conscious to produce logical connections between representations, for in the end, the contents of the awareness are produced of patterns.
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