By accident, any other models can enter the PSM, but some of them can produce
big problems for the future mature being, mainly paranoia type illnesses (see
ETAs).
The basic characteristic of any model from the PSM is that such a model is
invariant. It cannot be changed regardless of the information obtained from
the external reality.
The main goal of the PSM is to ensure that the being will survive
unconditionally, forever. To do this, the PSM is able to build elements, which
are activated to self-develop as models.
So, when a new situation from the external reality is met, and there is no
model to understand it, the PSM is automatically activated and tries to solve
the problem, based on some reflex actions, or based on some instincts. It also
makes a specialized element, which is activated as a model. The new model
tries to understand the new situation by independent activity, in interaction
with the external reality. When that situation is met again, the PSM is not
activated, and the specialized model solves the case. So, as a being gains
more and more experience, the PSM is not activated, but one of the specialized
models is activated instead.
Regardless of how many models are in a brain, if a new external reality occurs
and there is no model to understand it, the PSM will take the control in the
way already described.
When PSM controls a being, this can be recognized by the fact that the
consciousness disappears, as the normal structure of models is deactivated by
the PSM. This situation is called as shock-status.
THE STRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN: FUNCTIONAL FACILITIES AND TYPES OF MODELS
A basic functional facility of the brain is that any model can develop any of
its elements as a model. Once a model activates an element, that element is
able to develop itself as a model, by direct interaction with the external
reality and with any other model of the brain.
Another functional facility is described here. We see that a model can
activate any of its elements to develop itself as a model. But, even if an
element is already developed as a model, the main model continues to treat it
as an element. This important feature will be developed below.
So, a main model has an element. This element has some properties. To
integrate that element, the main model uses these properties. Now, the
problems could be like: "why that element has such properties?" or "how such
properties can be changed?" To answer such questions, the main model has to
develop the element as a model. Once an element is developed as a model, its
properties appear to be truths generated by the model. So, depending of the
point of view, referring to the same entity, we discuss about an element with
some properties, or about a model with some associated truths.
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