As this is my first blog, I want to try to write down how I perceive my mind works. I somehow feel this is important to understand myself and why I am. I have no doubt, I’m oversimplifying and overlooking important aspects of the mind, but this is my own way of describing how I think, I think.
I tried a couple of versions of drawing up the mind, linking various learnt functions together but I wasn’t happy with anything I came up with so I ended up with circles to connect the concepts together as a whole, as I tried drawing flowcharts I ended up connecting everything, hence the circles were better and simpler. Drawing flows where one thing happened after another I felt was useful to describe limited flows, but did not capture what I wanted to describe.
Let’s start by describing the sense. This can take the form of hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and the body interaction with the mind, as sense of self motion, nervous, neurals, signaling structure or systems. The sensory processors don’t necessarily happen one at a time and can be linked with one another, like smell and taste.
Next is the Ego. I feel that’s a big topic, one might split it up into several components or systems, like superego and ID, consciousness and unconsciousness, system 1 and system 2 and I like reading and relating to these concepts but I feel they might only be partially true and not more than that. The Ego, myself, has constraints and the sense influences me.
The memory bank can include memories and feelings obtained by the sensory triggers and cognitive positions based on previous experiences. I like to think of a trigger going off, and if you can keep your train of thought it leads to another and this keeps on going until I decide to break off(publish/break), switch train of thought, loose track or can’t go on for whatever reason. You know the feeling when you lose track of your thoughts and you have to find the right connections again to get you back on track, that’s triggering of sort. I ponder if there is much more than those triggers and connections to the Ego when it comes to our perceptions.
Publish is influenced by the ego, the memory bank and the sense. I can either publish outwards or inwards and both would contribute to or retrieve from the memory bank which is then shaped by the Ego and the Sense.
Is this really how my mind works? I think it might but do I think this is 100% correct, absolutely not.
Attempting to comprehend and sharing my views here will perhaps provide me and others with insight into how I think, and who knows, maybe I’ll get some constructive comments to improve on.
The Sceptic Life 