Faced with a new external reality, the brain will activate the model which
makes the best predictions associated with that external reality. If a model
makes wrong predictions, we have to change the model with another one or to
modify the model.
Example: Newton's symbolic model of Mechanics makes wrong predictions
associated with the objects moving at a speed comparable to the speed of
light, but its predictions are good (correct) at lower speed.
In any situation, the terms "correct" and "wrong" must be associated with a
model or with a structure of models.
We already described the first basic hardware facility associated with the
brain (human or animal). It generates truth, reality, knowledge and
consciousness. Now we will describe the second basic hardware facility of the
brain. This is the action on the external reality.
We already saw that faced with a section of the external reality, the brain
makes at least one ZM model. A ZM model works in association with any
available (or several) M-model and with any other ZMs of that brain. The main
ZM is able to predict in a correct way the evolution of a section of the
external reality. Such a ZM is able to make a new class of long-range models
called ZAMs.
ZAMs are artificial and invariant. An artificial model is made without any
direct interaction with the external reality. An invariant model is a model,
which cannot be changed by direct interaction with the external reality.
A ZM model will make a ZAM model in order to modify the external reality. Once
a ZAM is made, it becomes a reference model in changing the external reality.
To do this, the ZAM-model works in connection with a number of AZM models. An
AZM is a model which is already connected to the execution organs of a being
(for human beings these are legs, hands and so on).
Once a ZAM is activated, it will simulate the requested action using any
information from all models of the brain. Based on simulations, ZAM will
determine if it is able or not to meet the goal. If the simulation shows that
the action is possible, then the ZAM will activate AZM models for action on
the external reality. The ZAM will control the AZMs to act on the external
reality exactly as in the successful simulation, with good chances of success.
If by any simulation the objective is impossible to reach, the brain will be
blocked to do that activity.
Example: if a person has to jump over an obstacle, that person will know very
fast if the jump is possible or not. The person knows this, because a ZM makes
a ZAM-model, which is associated to the external reality (the person itself,
the supporting surface and the obstacle, as main elements). The ZAM then
simulates the jump on the model. If the simulated jump fails, the brain is
blocked to do the action. If the jump is done with success in the simulation,
the ZAM will control the body during the jump exactly as it was in the
simulation, with good chance of success.
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