The evolution of the brain is, however, slow on the scale of human active
life, even if the evolution accelerates. We are on a level development of the
brain on which, in domains where image models were leading (e.g. nutrition),
symbolic models are gaining ground.
ETA 27: Principial negative effects associated with the functioning of a brain
1. There is a principial problem, when we ask a question. In order to have an
understandable answer, we need to be within the model which generates the
answer. Without this condition, the answer will be nonsense. To put it
differently: not any question is permitted.
Example: The nature of light can be understood only within the framework of
Quantum Mechanics. If we are not familiar with Quantum Mechanics, the answer
to the question about the nature of light is nonsense. From outside Quantum
Mechanics, light seems to be both wave and particle, and this statement cannot
be understood based on logic.
In case of children, the questions in the class "why..?" cannot generally have
any answer, as the children haven't got the suitable models. However parents
have an answer to any of the children's questions. The answer with the stork
bringing the babies is famous. The educational system should take into account
these issues. For instance the 'why' questions should not be encouraged, and
favour the "what is this?" type questions. This means that, for children,
parents should show them the elements associated with external reality and
their relation/interconnections. Children will build alone models and they
will find themselves the answers to the questions of 'why' type.
2. When you can't do what you want, you do what you can... Here we open
Pandora's box. In the majority of cases in everyday life, we cannot do what we
want or we can't turn back time after a failure.
These problems can generate building and activation of illogical action models
starting with revenge and resignation as individual acts, and ending with
wars. The reason is associated with the tendency of any model to evolve
towards stability, in the conditions when the model cannot stabilize in any
situation. For instance, by revenge, in a way or another, one can find a
stability of the model, by attaching to it another model (this model is a
shielding model).
Resignation means building a suitable shielding-type model associated to the
model with problems. The most important and well-known shielding model,
associated to resignation, is religion.
All shielding models are associated with the term 'illusion'. The illusion is
defined as the reality generated by a shielding model.
The education system should take into account these classes of problems and
find solutions to avoid them.
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