The nature of the mind is an age-old question. The most puzzling aspect of consciousness is its autonomy. The difficulty of meditation indicates the precarious nature of conscious mind control. We have a hard time regulating our thoughts, let alone suppressing them; our emotions, particularly our negative feelings, tend to spill into every aspect of our lives.
Animals can only find food and escape danger if they provide an intelligent answer to stimuli. They can walk, swim, fly, run, climb trees, and even hunt with incredible precision. How do they do it? Every move is a teaching moment about gravity, distance, weight, and force. The intuition of the physical environment ensures survival. Sensory organs turn the spatial information from our three-dimensional world into a complex temporal rhythm, forming the basis of decision-making and memory. Adopting the physical laws integrates the organism into the environment. Intellect is the ability to adapt to the physical laws of nature through memory and learning. The birth of the non-material mind enables comparisons and associations based on emotions.
The brain relies on the body for its extensive nutrient needs, but it only connects with the outside world through the sensory system, which channels information to the cortex. The internal mirroring of the environment makes it possible for the mind to orient between birth and death. Therefore, the mind is a temporal compass, which can maintain its purpose automatically without conscious intention. Stimulus unbalances successive regulatory layers of the brain, but an internal mechanism generates a response that restores a ground condition, the so-called resting state. The brain’s intuitive ability to maintain the resting state is particle-like self-regulation.
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