Development of Life Underlying Thoughts
Words as the base of thinking
When we are thinking, we recall the past fun and painful things remembered in the brain and predict our future actions. At this time, we use our native language in the brain. As symbolized by the famous word "I am because I think", the awareness of what I am thinking is due to words in my brain. When we become aware of ourselves, it is thought to be done by recalling words in our brain. But what if you encounter an event that does not translate into memorized words? It will be replaced with something like as resembled in the brain, or it will be abstracted as emotion such as joy or fear. And because you can't think in words, your body may react spontaneously and hold up or avoid action. In such situations where you are not certain, you may feel something intuitively in the absence of memorized knowledge. At this time, signals at the level of the nerve cells of the brain directly reflect as a sense of intuition, in response to the stimulation from the sensory organs. I think this intuition is related to the signal level of the nerve cells in the brain.
Corresponding to information from sensory organs, there is a process that is consistent with knowledge stored as words in neurons of the brain and then reflected in individual awareness. Although we are not aware of it, verbal thinking needs the supporting layer behind while translating signals of neurons into words before referring to words and becoming aware. Humans developed complicating information processing in the cerebrum by acquiring words. However, pre-human creatures have a history of evolution that has ensured their survival in relation to the outside world. Life had become an individual that closed by a membrane and animals constructed the nervous system while maintaining activation. With the development of the brain, it became possible to process more information, added functions to protect individuals from external enemies, and became aware of themselves. From that point on, humans would have developed the throat and other functions that manipulate words, and would have developed the language and thought through communication. In other words, the basic motivation to maintain life is not only the metabolism and duplication of cells maintaining activation and the generation of life. But also, life is developing in a direction to become aware of it as a subject. Developing languages is in the flow of life and have been created as a tool for thinking that clearly recognizes the self beyond the previous stages.
The development of living organisms has resulted in the aim of becoming a person with intelligence. Its intelligence is centered on the development of the cerebrum, and it is significant that there was self-awareness and language acquisition. Words evolve gradually, and not only convey intentions such as emotions and situations about objects, but also diversify words and their meanings through trial and error such as comparison and selection, and combine simple words to create complex concepts. Moreover, the concept expressed by words makes a difference in the way individuals receive it, and that becomes personality, which causes differences and diversification as the group. Differences in mindset may be replaced by how words combine and understand memory in the brain. When a combination of words stimulates and enriches emotions, this causal relationship becomes a new set of words and affects the next action. We act in words, except for immediate actions.
Words as a surface layer
The words themselves are just a series of sounds and combinations of symbols. To the sounds or symbols, humans have added a meaning that can be used as a tool of communication. To be able to communicate in words requires considerable learning experience in the interaction between the brain and sensory organs during our childhood. Even in human childhood, there is a motivation to actively absorb words, and as a result most people can speak. Words have been gradually learned since childhood by linking the brain with the ears and throat organs, and we use daily as a means of thinking and introspection. Learning and education that trains the brain and organs is building a way to remember first and learn what is more effective or efficient. The learning word processed here can be interpreted as embedding the correspondence between words and the combination of nerve cells. In other words, what is expressed in words is just a sequence of sounds or symbols, that sequence stimulates the brain, and then the corresponding meaning is associated in the brain. This association of sounds or symbols with their meanings is recalling what has been learned and remembered in the brain. The cooperation of these memorized words gathers and is the material for thinking. Moreover, the thinking of humans is limited the range within which they have learned the coordination of words and meaning built on the individuals.
As the meanings of words diversified and became more complex, the human brain would have responded to streamline efficiently the connections of nerve cell signals. The human brain established the function of linking sound with meaning, and gradually gained language by broadening the relationship between sounds and meaning. Then, symbols were used to replace with sounds as words after trials and errors. From this background, what we think in words means that even if we think using sounds or symbols, our brain works to interact with the signals of nerve cells to convert them into meaning. Sounds or symbols as words have a combination of the stored signals in nerve cells as the lower layer, and we are aware of the collective action as thought.
Thinking by words based on signals of nerve cells
Humans use words to think, but when they are thinking, they don't even know how to interact with the brain's nerve cells. Nevertheless, concepts arising from the combinations symbolized in words should be remembered down to the intertwining of signal levels in brain cells. In other words, even if words are exchanged in the brain based on the subjective awareness when thinking, the underlying things are memorized as countless signals intertwined in the entanglement of nerve cells. Although we cannot be aware of the signal level of our brain, we are conscious of ourselves by the words assembled from signals in brain cells. Everyday language exchange is above the signals at the nerve cell level as the underlying tissue. Then, if the signal level in the underlying tissue tries to accept and respond as a stimulus, it will not be able to recognize it if the corresponding word is not memorized in the brain. Alternatively, cell-level diversity may be truncated by limitations imposed by words stored in the brain. In fact, you can suppress emotions that you do not want to acknowledge yourself, and you do not need to be aware of situations that you do not want to notice. What is the relationship between verbal thinking and neuronal level signals? The potential of nerve-level functions is incalculable. In other words, it could evolve in a function that is not known. There must be something that will be realized as the direction of life in the future.
Language is a tool that has been diversified by region and ethnicity and changed over time, communicating each other's will. An essential feature of our lives, speaking words, requires a situation where the ear and throat organs and brain memory are linked. What we use for words is to reconstruct the memory of signal levels in nerve cells by replacing the internal link. Even if the pronunciations and characters that represent words as languages are different, the contents are almost the same in the combination of neural circuits as the underlying tissues. That is why we can translate and interpret the content even in different languages. In other words, the basis is a combination of signals at the nerve cell level. So, you can use voices and letters as tools to convey some meaning to the other party. Humans acquired words hundreds of thousands of years ago, and achieved a structure understood by words on signals passing through nerve cells. Human beings have taken a step forward in life by inventing words, acquiring thoughts, and becoming self-aware. However, there must be something underpinned by the evolution of living things. It is remembered in our neural cell coordination. Here, if you use the phenomenon of instantaneous flash as a hint, you will be able to get a glimpse of the deep functions of the cerebrum.
Sometimes we realize that we know the situation in an instant. It is said that the work of a genius flashed the entire work in an instant and then represented it with letters, notes and paintbrushes. Even if you can intuitively take a bird's-eye view of the whole picture by abstracting a lot of information, you need to acquire the appropriate technology to convey it. In other words, at the signal level, it flashes instantaneously, but it cannot be conveyed unless it can be converted by means of words or notes. An understanding of signal-level memory, such as image that cannot be spoken of, is "intuitive."
There is an individual who is the subject, and it has the effect of overlooking the whole situation by the nerve cells. As a result, we are aware of it. When we are thinking, we are not simply converting the entangled signals of nerve cells into words. There is something that acts as the subject that puts the whole together, and that subject thinks using words and takes action on the individual and recognizes it. Even if the consciousness of self-awareness is made by understanding the words in the cerebrum, there is something that controls the action as the subject.
Considering the work of a genius and understanding with intuition, the level at which nerve cell signals cooperate is considered to be much faster than the time of converting into language in the brain. We can expect that there is a situation where the whole image is overlooked at the signal level. The main subject in ourselves catches what happened at the signal level of the nerve cells before converting it to language. We have a consciousness that we are aware of ourselves, so that we think only our own subject considers everything, but in fact, there is an effect of overlooking the whole below our thinking, and we may be not aware of it. Conversely, the signals entangled in the underlying tissue such as nerve cells may be looking at what is ahead. There is the direction of the flow of life, and it is possible that in that direction humans are steadily preparing for the future of life.
Written by Ichiro, 4/11/2020,
