Brain Study pt.11 of 12: Educating and Training(t or d?)

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EDUCATING AND TRAINING THE HUMAN

There is a physical change in gray matter with use. Cells in the

outer thin area of the cortex which are extensively used during a

given action show visible change under the microscope.

 

A classic experiment involved a large group of mice. They were first

divided into two groups of equal size. Both groups were placed in

identical containers and given identical food and water. One

container was bare. The other contained many toys and innovative

runs. After a period of time, half of each group was sacrificed and

their brains examined. There was a decided difference in the

appearance of the brains. Cells in the 'busy' group appeared much

more robust. The containers were then swapped and the remainder of

the mice returned. After the same period of time as the first part of

the experiment, the balance of the mice in each group was sacrificed

and their brains examined. It was found in each case that the

appearance of the brains had shifted back. The brains from the

formerly sedentary mice had become more robust with the new

stimulation and the formerly robust brains had shifted to the

appearance of those from the sedentary container in the first half of

the experiment. (This should tell you something about how we should

handle criminal prisoners.)

 

The Broca's area is a neural mechanism which provides the function of

motor processor for the human voice mechanism. It receives a word in

the form of a string of phonemes as input, then provides the

multitude of exquisitely timed and controlled commands to chest,

tongue and throat muscles to properly form the word. Applying the

knowledge gained from the mouse experiment, one would expect that

there would be physical difference between the Broca's area of the

average person and that of an opera singer. Such is the case. There

is a marked difference.

 

Evolution is inventive in the sense that it is chaos squeezed through

a filter. Mutations are accidents and are, therefore, bereft of

reason. The environment is what it is, and no more. It has no

planning, and, also, no reason. But, when the mutations apply to the

environment for survival, most are found wanting, and they perish.

The end result of the entire process appears to be inventive. (The

fact is this is the way man invents things, too. He idiotically runs

through a bunch of impossibles before finding the invention he was

looking for.) Once evolution finds a solution, a mechanism which is

successful in surviving, it does not strike off looking for a new way

to do things. It always works from (happens to) that which already

exists. If by chance it should find a better method, the creature

incorporating the new and superior idea crowds out the old. It's a

competitive world. So rest assured, if one way solves a problem in

the body, you will not find another way to do the same thing anywhere

in the body. The same process will be used wherever needed.

 

If the Broca's area responds to activity, in the same manner as the

brains of the mice, then all other neural mechanisms which perform

the same kind of function (a set of signals in, processed to a new

set of signals out) will respond in a like manner. Observation of

other motor areas bear this theory out.

 

If the Broca's area gets damaged, you are through talking. No other

brain area can be trained to take its place. In the same manner, no

matter the activity (education, practice or training), the Broca's

area can't be trained to do a different function.

 

An instinct is a neural mechanism. It is not a reasoning mechanism.

It receives a set of signals and produces another set of signals. It

can be exercised. It can be strengthened. If made inactive through

inattention, it will atrophy to a low level influence. It can't be

trained into a new function. If the instinct is one that fits the

culture, it can be strengthened through attention and use. An

instinct which is deleterious can be over-ridden by conscious control

(unless defective, the human is quite trainable). Education on the

facts of man and his fit in the universe will in most cases supply

the information for proper control of the instincts (and consequent

acceptable behavior).

 

Racial bigotry is an instinct formed during the two million years

that man developed from habilis to sapien as a tribal warrior and

hunter. Tribal militancy was the necessary norm. Modern educators

waste time trying to educate it into something else, an

impossibility. The most they can do is make the child lie and feel

inferior because he 'thinks wrong'. It is possible that the instinct

is strengthened every time the attempt is made to educate it. Forget

educating the instinct and train the child's behavior. Tell him it

may be understandable but any form of racially bigoted behavior is

forbidden. With proper behavior the instinct will wither.

 

It is clear from this description, that man learns best (whether in

knowledge, motor skill or instinct control) through repetition. In

fact, practice (repetition) is the only way that it can 'learn'. Ask

any basketball player, pianist or mathematician. The neural

mechanisms in each instance, though specialized, operate on the same

principle. Only the modern educator scoffs.

 

Conclusion: Our current public education system is precisely

backwards in intent, content and method.

Nature is inexorable. The process of evolution produces life forms

which can survive within the fixed constraints of nature. Some life

forms, such as plants, adapt themselves to fit the requirements of

nature. Others adapt nature to fit themselves to a certain extent.

The most successful of the latter has been man. Man has been

developed to be the greatest problem solver yet produced by

evolution.

 

The construction of man's neural system shows his nature

specifically. It is composed of thousands of individual neural

functions, each of which has one goal in mind: the solution of a

particular set of survival problems or portion thereof. Man is a

problem solver, pure and simple. As long as the problems were outside

of man, he conquered them all, one by one. These problems lend

themselves to objective attack. A constant and reliable food supply

became available through agriculture and animal husbandry. Fire for

warmth and cooking was developed. Shelter was constructed from

available materials. Medicine was developed. Tools that make tasks

easier were invented.

 

Man is a successful problem solver. He has overpopulated the world

and dominates all other life. He is successful to the point of

negating the cleansing portion of his own evolution. See The

Degeneration of Man He is faced with species extinction if he does

not solve this problem.

 

All of man's remaining problems are those he has generated himself.

These are problems which he is not equipped naturally to solve. Man

does well in objective pursuits. He can build a better rabbit snare,

and a rocket to fly to the moon. But, in spite of the fact that he

believes he is brilliantly intelligent in all things, he is dumb as a

rock when it comes to subjective problems. He is not equipped. Those

problems did not exist when man evolved and evolution now supplies

problems, not solutions. His conflict summation matrix (intuition),

all thousands of elements, were designed for an entirely different

set of problems. Man's philosophy and psychology, as they are defined

today, are no more and can be no more than pure drivel.

 

Since man's nature is that of solving problems, and he has solved the

ones provided by nature, those for which he was designed to solve, it

is natural that he tend to take the easy way. Relax. Indulge in food

and drink. Let somebody else do it. And then there are the three

ultimate cop-outs - suicide, drug dependency and socialism. All three

give away man's freedom and vitality in return for producing nothing.

Man is born to be challenged. Take conflict (competition) away from

man and those attributes which make him human will atrophy.

 

As a superb problem solver of outside things which effect him, man

removed the problems. That removal may have been his death call. In

turning his 'intelligence' from the solving of objective problems, he

has generated fatal subjective problems. He has two solutions from

which to choose, if he wishes to survive:

 

1. Return to the law of the jungle and recreate the life of the last

two million years, with all its death and misery. This means

forsaking a rich standard of living, abandoning medicine, rejecting a

compassionate culture and requiring a reduction in population to a

small percentage of that now. The natural forces of evolution would

then cleanse his gene pool and keep it lean. Man, as a species, would

survive indefinitely, or

2. Develop and enforce rigid and objective social thinking, translate

man's problems into objective goals, then treat himself as his own

worst enemy, always skeptical of all that he does. This solution does

not mean forsaking a rich standard of living or a compassionate

society.

Man's social thought must be restructured. His cultural structure

must be rebuilt. He needs to scrap his non-science education system

and enlarge his scientific studies, with all of its rigor, to cover

subjective man himself. Educational psychology, for instance, should

be an engineering field, with all of the skepticism, rigor and

methodology that shift implies. Allow traditional teaching techniques

to remain until enough is known. Force the proving of new teaching

methods before applying them. Above all, do not allow academics to

reshape the culture.

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Nisargadatta , " Bob N. " <Roberibus111

wrote:

>

> EDUCATING AND TRAINING THE HUMAN

> There is a physical change in gray matter with use. Cells in the

> outer thin area of the cortex which are extensively used during a

> given action show visible change under the microscope.

>

> A classic experiment involved a large group of mice. They were

first

> divided into two groups of equal size. Both groups were placed in

> identical containers and given identical food and water. One

> container was bare. The other contained many toys and innovative

> runs. After a period of time, half of each group was sacrificed

and

> their brains examined. There was a decided difference in the

> appearance of the brains. Cells in the 'busy' group appeared much

> more robust. The containers were then swapped and the remainder of

> the mice returned. After the same period of time as the first part

of

> the experiment, the balance of the mice in each group was

sacrificed

> and their brains examined. It was found in each case that the

> appearance of the brains had shifted back. The brains from the

> formerly sedentary mice had become more robust with the new

> stimulation and the formerly robust brains had shifted to the

> appearance of those from the sedentary container in the first half

of

> the experiment. (This should tell you something about how we

should

> handle criminal prisoners.)

>

> The Broca's area is a neural mechanism which provides the function

of

> motor processor for the human voice mechanism. It receives a word

in

> the form of a string of phonemes as input, then provides the

> multitude of exquisitely timed and controlled commands to chest,

> tongue and throat muscles to properly form the word. Applying the

> knowledge gained from the mouse experiment, one would expect that

> there would be physical difference between the Broca's area of the

> average person and that of an opera singer. Such is the case.

There

> is a marked difference.

 

 

 

I wonder how many average peresons and opera singers have been

sacrificed in this experiment ;-)

 

Len

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Nisargadatta , " lissbon2002 " <lissbon2002

wrote:

>

> Nisargadatta , " Bob N. " <Roberibus111@>

> wrote:

> >

> > EDUCATING AND TRAINING THE HUMAN

> > There is a physical change in gray matter with use. Cells in the

> > outer thin area of the cortex which are extensively used during a

> > given action show visible change under the microscope.

> >

> > A classic experiment involved a large group of mice. They were

> first

> > divided into two groups of equal size. Both groups were placed in

> > identical containers and given identical food and water. One

> > container was bare. The other contained many toys and innovative

> > runs. After a period of time, half of each group was sacrificed

> and

> > their brains examined. There was a decided difference in the

> > appearance of the brains. Cells in the 'busy' group appeared much

> > more robust. The containers were then swapped and the remainder

of

> > the mice returned. After the same period of time as the first

part

> of

> > the experiment, the balance of the mice in each group was

> sacrificed

> > and their brains examined. It was found in each case that the

> > appearance of the brains had shifted back. The brains from the

> > formerly sedentary mice had become more robust with the new

> > stimulation and the formerly robust brains had shifted to the

> > appearance of those from the sedentary container in the first

half

> of

> > the experiment. (This should tell you something about how we

> should

> > handle criminal prisoners.)

> >

> > The Broca's area is a neural mechanism which provides the

function

> of

> > motor processor for the human voice mechanism. It receives a word

> in

> > the form of a string of phonemes as input, then provides the

> > multitude of exquisitely timed and controlled commands to chest,

> > tongue and throat muscles to properly form the word. Applying the

> > knowledge gained from the mouse experiment, one would expect that

> > there would be physical difference between the Broca's area of

the

> > average person and that of an opera singer. Such is the case.

> There

> > is a marked difference.

>

>

>

> I wonder how many average peresons and opera singers have been

> sacrificed in this experiment ;-)

>

> Len

>

That's interesting Len..you know I never thought about that, but

doing so now I can see...I's all about mi mi mi mi..La La!

;-)

..bob(the average person.. no two or three tenors here..not even ONE)