In 1900 Quantum Mechanics appeared. It marks the highest level attained up to
now, in the brain evolution. However, people, who reached this extreme advance
of knowledge, are ordinary people in everyday life. Independent of the level
in the professional field, in everyday life, the brain continues to act to a
large extends based on image models.
I have an example, in which one can see clearly, and above any doubt, the
evolution of the brain towards more and more advanced symbolic models, at the
level of the common person, in an issue always associated with image models:
nutrition.
In all times, people have eaten based on analysis on image models. Associated
terms to nutrition are taste, smell, colour, aspect etc. The decision to eat
or not a certain food, is based on image models. It can be said that the whole
being, with its whole structure, participates at solving the nutrition
problem.
We have an explicit situation, when the process of evolution towards symbolic
models in nutrition is clear. I have seen a person in a shop, who wanted to
buy a certain product. The person had at hand a list of dangerous food
additives (the so-called "E"s). A product was rejected because it contained
such an "E".
Taste, smell, aspect and natural drive were overrun and a logical decision
taken, totally independent of any image model. "E"s cannot be sensed based on
image models. When a decision is taken exclusively on symbolic models, we have
clearly a progress. This phenomenon, according to MDT, will increase on all
levels.
Important note: the elite has imposed that any food should be labeled with the
exact contents and other data, so that evolved people can take their own
decision. This type of information is useless for the image-type public. The
real problem is not the information, but the technical capacity of the brain
to collect information and decide based on symbolic models.
As I mentioned, the attitude of the majority of consumers continues to be
strongly anchored in a complex structure of image models. There is an infinite
number of cases, in which the image models from one's mind, make the products
more expensive, and also more dangerous.
Example: "good quality" butter might contain a substance, which confers it a
Yellow commercial colour. Between butter with colorant and the same without
it, many consumers choose the one with colour. There are several soft drinks
(some very famous) which, without colorants, would have less success.
The brain follows its ascending course towards the increase importance of
symbolic models, so that, as we have seen it already happening, the decision
in nutrition will be taken with more and more contribution from symbolic
models.
The guarantee exists on symbolic model, that, within the laws and the level
attained by science and technology and the laws of economy, food is possibly
the safest. Nutritional regulations can only impose what a certain product may
not contain.
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