Scientific Brain Model: How Does The Mind Work?

The meaning of consciousness Part 1: Extracting the complex features which identify our conscious concepts.  Concepts and conscious (natural-language coded) knowledge: (conscious) concepts are the stereotypes we form to use as sequences-of-actions- building blocks, so that it becomes feasible to elaborate complex plans for the achievement of our goals. * Unsupervised learning is followd to learn low-level feature detectors of those patterns, which we find more frequently and most faithfully describe the environment; whereas supervised learning is followed to learn those high-level features, which are better suited to code the tasks we execute to achieve our goals. At this point we enter in the field of supervised learning. Until now, I have been discussing forms of unsupervised learning in the brain. However, generally, in order to be able to achieve some goal, some form of supervised learning will ultimately be necessary. The role of unsupervised learning is to highlight and squee...

A Scientific Model Of The Brain : How does our brain make choices? In order to understand how the brain works, it is best to think of it as the government of the organism. It is then natural to say, that all important decisions are taken by our (conscious) mind. However, if we analyze a little deeper how the brain works, we will quickly realize, that in this context the word 'decisions' is rather misleading:  Our mental constructs are nothing but the result of our experience with the environment. As a matter of fact, our mental constructs' raison d'etre is the formation of a model of the world outside, where - in order to optimize our interaction with our environment - our interpretation of how the world works is represented. It is therefore really hard (if not altogether impossible) to conceive anything foreign to everything we have so far been exposed to. For instance, as three-dimensional beings interacting in this world with other three-dimensional structures, it is...

 Part of Chapter V of Scientific Model Of The Brain . * From the very beginning, we have been learning concepts, as we have been learning the language. * Learning nouns and the acquisition of the most basic concepts: The first step to acquire a concept is to find out the thing's name, and there is no simpler method to indicate which thing we are thinking about and referring to than to point at the thing in question. * Learning verbs, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions; learning what things are good for: The simplest method to learn what things are good for and how to accomplish things is to have somebody show us how to resolve the task in question. * As we learn more and more words, as we find out how to refer to things and actions, as we acquire more and more (conscious) concepts, we become able to spell out, write down, save and transmit natural language scripts, of what things are good for and how to accomplish stuff. * From the very beginning, we have been learning concepts, ...

A Scientific Model Of The Brain: How do babies start speaking (that is, why do babies start speaking)? How does a baby's consciousness emerge?  * A baby's cry for help: our first aha moment and how it gives rise to our most basic concept. At this point, it may be helpful to ask, why do newborn babies cry? The question may sound rather silly, since obviously babies cry because they feel some need, that requires attention from somebody else. Now, if we assume the existence of a decision-making agent, it seems reasonable to consider, if, perhaps, there are times where the baby is just being manipulative. There are certainly instances, where one would swear that the baby is only crying for the sake of getting some love and attention. On the other hand, admittedly, the proponents of the decision-making agent line of thinking could bery reasonably argue that a newborn's screams are only an instinctive conduct, and it is just that, at some point in the baby's early life, its i...

  When a Man Loves a Woman.  The most beautiful story of love. A Scientific Model Of The Brain: From Instinct To Reason.  Have you ever wondered how does the mind work? Believe it or not, here you will find out. And, if you do not, please let me know what is that you found wrong. How come did we get fooled into forgetting that the key reason for a society to flourish is not the name they give to the political system or whether the political power is elected by the people, but whether there is some reasonable balance of opportunities: It is a shame that the legal system decides the disputes between citizens based on what litigant hires the most powerful attorney.  It is a shame that only those who have a lot of money are able to receive the most effective medical treatments.  It is a shame that kids born to wealthy families have it much easier to be accepted in an elite school.  It is a shame that in today's fake democratic system a person's worth is solely ...

Formatted Version . Single Page Version . Have you ever wondered how does the mind work?  Believe it or not, here you will find out. How does learning take place? How are ideas generated? How does reasoning come about? How does our sense of consciousness emerge? Why do we sometimes feel happy and some other times unhappy? Our mind is such a miraculous phenomenon, that it is only natural to believe it must be out of magic. However, in actuality, it is not impossible at all to conceive how conscious thought and reasoning may emerge out of the competition and cooperation among the billions of neurons in our brains. Indeed, we just need to consider the brain as the government of the organism: In the same way that the government of a society determines the policies the nation should take in order for the society to prosper, the brain processes external and internal information in order to elaborate plans of actions, for the achievement of the organism's goals. Then, with this parallelis...