The realization

Q4: Martian: "How can you realize the realm or recognize the things in life?"

A:............... By comparison.

Explanation;

When a human being is born, his mind is empty, no memories or experiences. At that critical period of his human life, he depends on his instincts. Even on the first day of the little human's life, he will start to use his senses (sight, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching) to record information in his mind as memories and experience.

There is one part of the human brain which works like a library (memory) where all the information about life is stored as pictures, voices, smells and tasting influences. All these inventories combined with descriptions relate to the type of information stored, let us call this operation registration; it's the first operation in our realization procedure.

The second operation is organization the information, the brain of each human keeps working all the time even when we are asleep, to put all the information in some kind of order. There are millions and billions, if not trillions of pieces of information that each person gets in his life, so how is it possible to put it in his small brain? The answer is a big secret of our life and a sign of the greatness of our God.

I’m like millions of other people who have tried to figure how the human mind work and how the brain stores all of that information, that which we call memories. It’s really hard but I’ll tell you what I found out about it.

A human brain is a small place and it will receive unlimited information that needs to be stored, so what is the best way to do that? The answer is; MOVEMENT yes movement, please try to imagine that the brain is just a place to store things, like any storage it could be full one day! But if we have 2 places and the things are movable, we can move our things easily between those 2 places. In our daily life we find that movable things are easier to store and to handle than heavy and unmovable things. And please notice that since we can move our things to another place that means we can put other things in it's place.

If we don't have a place to store new things then we need to take an old thing out of storage to put in the new one in, so if a human's mind is like a PC we would be able delete old information. But as that isn't possible in humans, and we don't have any way to do this then that would indicate that the information in our brain is movable and there is more than one place to store the information. Recent studies have told us that the human brain is composed of millions of small cells in jelly and this composition works with electrical pulses and special chemical reactions.

With my theory; dynamical memory for movable information; we can understand how our brain works and how it achieves its tasks and magnificent performance, and also it explains many phenomena like dreams, inability to forget old memories, unlimited capacity to store information, instant remembering and even forgetting some information for little time and it explains why our brain stays working all the time even while we are sleeping.

The help that our memories provide for our awareness and our intelligence is dependant completely on that fact. The movement of the information in our brain gives us a major benefit; to help us to arrange the information in order, let me explain more. When we need to store things in real life we need first to sort things according to their similarity, but in our brain we don't do that!!! We look, hear and using all our senses at the same time, we put in all the information that our senses collect in our mind instantly, without looking to sort out these information or even to look in the places where it will be stored in our brain. How is it possible that it happens automatically or spontaneously? The only explanation is that our memory is like a cyber liquid movable environment. I challenge any one to give a better explanation.

With the movement of the information in our brain, we don't need to indicate the place where the information will be stored. Secondly it will make it easy to find what we have stored before, that is because within this special system there aren’t far and near storage spaces. In the normal way of storing material in real life we store things in lines or rows so there is a beginning, middle and end. But in our brain where all the information is moving constantly it is changing its position all the time, that means all the information has the same distance, so we can find all the information the same way.

Now maybe someone intelligent says “if the information is moving all the time, so how come we can find it?” Really good question, the answer will show us the greatness of our creator. According to my theory (dynamical memory for movable information); the information inside our minds doesn’t move randomly, but moves in circular patterns that means there is a central point and the information is moving in circles around it. Something like the movement of the planets in the universe (who knows, maybe the universe is just a giant brain).

The complete image of the dynamical memory for movable information is like this; there are many centers where the information is moving in circles, each point has many paths, I can't tell how many paths there are around the point, but I think that may depend on the similarity of the information, this means, the same kind of information is circling around the same point. For more understanding, let me call that pattern (center point and the information around it) a group so we will have millions of groups. These groups are arranged in special patterns, some have a vertical movement and some have a horizontal movement, or even with different angle.

That in my opinion helps to move the information from one group to another and from memory to other parts in our brain where the mind does more operations on it. Our understanding of the movement that occurs within different levels in our brain shows us the reason for the non-stop working of our brain. This movement continues from our first day on earth until the end of our life. It helps our mind to organize the information and to keep everything well organized, which helps our brain to achieve a better performance, best patterns, means best memory.

All of this is happening in the subconscious, but sometimes some of it reaches our consciousness so we see it as dreams. In my opinion dreams are result of the movement of the information in our memory part of our brain, when we have not stored it properly and it is unresolved.

The dynamical memory for movable information helps us to remember more than one piece of information at same time. For example we can drive a car and sing at the same time, even when driving and we need to remember the direction, and technique of driving, all at the same time. It’s easy for us because the information is moving in our head and we can recall the different sorts of information that we need all at the same time. We don't need to go the place where it is stored it comes in it's own way. In real life if we need some thing we need to go to fetch it, imagine if we needed 100 things at the same time, and we needed to move 100 times to get what we needed.

With our dynamic system we can call 100 things from our unconscious mind to our conscious at the same time and all the 100 things would be moving at the same time, you could imagine the amount of time that we save by using this system! When our brain deals with millions of pieces of information at the same time. It’s like you have thousands of soldiers moving just from one order, you just need to shout MOVE and they keep moving even if you go to sleep!

Since the information is moving in a cyber chemical environment it’s possible it can be affected by special chemical compositions, like caffeine or alcohol. Moving in air isn’t like moving in water. That explains very simply how drugs affect our mind.

Realization,

All the information that has been stored in our memory, is stored with an understanding, for example; if we see a cat, our mind will store the picture of that cat with this information: The Cat is an animal, I can play with them, they eat mice, cheese etc… with the date and the place we saw the cat. All this information will be stored in our mind by our dynamical system. When we see the cat again the picture of the cat will go to a special place, let me call it; our realization unit, where it will be compared with the old stored picture in our memory, when the compared unit finds a similar picture (or more than one) it’ll transfer the information that combines that picture(s) to our consciousness, and we’ll realize what it is that we looking at.

We can't recognize or realize anything unless we have saved the information about it in our brain. We start our realization by collecting information from our environment, collected by all of our senses. Any new information will be registered and saved in our memory, and will be compared with the old information, and so on for everything new we come across.

Comparison, is an essential operation in our brain, it occurs very fast, I estimate that the brain does millions of comparison operations every second even while we are in sleep and it occurs spontaneously. Our realization is dependant on how fast that operation happens. It's like the PC, the faster is the best one for work with.

Actually not only does our realization depends on that operation but also our intelligence. Maybe someone will say that intelligence depends on the ability to analyze the information, but what does this mean?

After our first example about the cat we know now what a cat is, so after a few days we see the same cat on a sofa in our house, and after another few days we may see the cat on the garden wall. So in that case does our memory save the cat on the sofa differently from the cat on the wall? No, it will stay the same cat but in different places. I hope you remember that I mentioned; place, and date being amongst the information that our brain saves in our memory when we see a new thing.

Secondly our brain doesn't compare the whole picture or information that is received from our senses, but it divides the information (pictures, voices, etc…) into small parts, to compare the parts separately.

So our brain analyses the information to achieve cooperation between the different pieces of information fast and with the best results, to save more space in our memory, instead of putting the information about the cat in hundreds of places, we will save our image of the cat and add more information to it, so it registers in our memory. For example, a child sees a cat in the garden for the first time in his life, so he panics and shouts because he never saw a cat before in his life, his mom then tells him ‘this is a cat, its a lovely friendly animal you can play with it’, etc… the child will store all this information in his memory. After a few days he sees the same cat in the living room, this time he will compare the picture of the cat in the room with the picture of the cat in the garden. The same information that he learned the first time will jump into his mind disregarding the place. His brain has saved the image of the cat, and registers that it was seen for first time in the garden. Then he sees it in the living room, afterwards on the sofa, and after that on the garden wall, like this the picture of the cat registers better, by dividing the information to small components, which work together in our brain to achieve better performance.

Now I think you understand how our memory works and how comparison helps us to make our world real, now we need to understand what intelligence is?

Maybe you think that I am putting my explanation into overly simple words, and what is going in our brains is more complicated than that. All the information in our memory is moving all the time in circles (paths) around center points (group) the paths and the groups are patterns. The information has the ability to move from one group to another group, which helps our brain to connect the information together, mixed with our feelings and beliefs, all cooperating together. Analyzing helps our brain to put the information into small components, which not only helps cooperation and memory tasks it also helps in another important operation happening in our brain all the time, we call that operation; IMAGINATION.

Imagination is a process working with our minds and brain all the time to combine information in specific patterns. There are billions and trillions of pieces information in our memory, it’s been collected with it’s own form or pattern, but our brain has submitted all this information to be analyzed, to be broken down and made into smaller data (components) which will be easy to use in making new patterns (imagination). This process helps us to realize our real world, and helps us to create new imagined worlds (patterns). We call this creative thinking.

Maybe you heard about the story of the intelligent monkey who was put in a cage? They put a banana outside the cage and then they gave him 3 pieces of stick. The clever monkey put the 3 sticks together to make a tool so he could get the banana. That gives us good example in our study of the brain, the picture of the sticks and the banana kept moving in the monkey's mind until it came together in a line, and he worked out what he needed to do to bring the banana to him in the cage.

We have all heard someone say something like; I circled that idea in my mind or the idea is circling round in my head!!! I could give hundreds of examples regarding our use of creative thinking, a simple example is words. There are an unlimited number of words in our language; all these words are composed from letters, the amazing thing that there are only 26 letters in the English language!!! So where have all these words come from? They came from our mind, from our creative thinking.

Our mind just connected some letters together and gave it some meaning. Now with only 26 letters we can create unlimited words (patterns) and unlimited sentences (patterns). Do you think that it is possible to create all these words, if the letters (data) in our mind are static (not moving)? I don’t think so. It’s not possible to have any kind of thinking with a solid memory! If we haven’t our dynamic memory for moveable information, we will be just like stone or maybe a tree! Creative thinking helps us to create new things and to invent new technology (there are many more kinds of thinking, maybe I’ll speak about them in another book).

Collecting information with our senses, saving it in our memory, analyzing it together with cooperation helps us to realize our world and to have creative thinking. All these procedures indicate the degree of our intelligence.

Intelligence, is a measure of the performance of the human mind, For example we say that someone is very intelligent and another one is stupid or someone else is a genius. Intelligence is just a comparative degree. The result of our brains performance depends on the harmony of our minds operation, I think that cooperation and analyzing work together with a good memory make good creative thinking. It's true that cooperation help us to realize and to be aware of our world, but comparison alone isn't able to make human intelligence.

Comparison is the way we measure differences between things in life. We don't only look for the coincidence between the information in our mind but also for the contrast and differences. This helps to organize the moving information in our brain into different patterns, for example most people can tell contrasting things like black and white, hot and cold, good and bad. Or tell the numbers in sequence, 1,2,3… our mind uses differences like colors, shapes etc… to sort things into groups. Here we can understand our God’s wisdom of creating differences in life.

I hope by now the Martian has understood the human brain, and how it works. But why I take all that trouble to think and to write all that about our brain?

I have had experiences, which after working through in my mind have helped me to have a good knowledge of life and about us as humans. I have used that knowledge to improve my life and to learn as best I can. I would like to share my knowledge with you, because I think that it is a gift from God that belongs to all humans. Now I'll tell about some real experiences in my life, and how I used this understanding in my studies.

I was in my 9th year in school (I was 15 years old); it was a very important year because my future studies depended on the marks that I got in the last examination at the end of that year. The exam had only 7 subjects, Arabic, English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and history. I was good at all the subjects except Mathematics, my mind refused to deal with mathematical problems, for unknown reasons. Mathematics composed a very big problem for me, I tried very hard to overcome it but unfortunately I had no real success. So I tried to find a way to pass that exam. The studying for mathematics was composed of 2 subjects, modern mathematics and geometry. I was very good at geometry, and to pass the exam I needed to have 50 marks out of a 100. There were 6 questions, 3 mathematical and 3 geometry, each question scored 20 marks. So I needed to answer at least 3 questions to have 50 marks or more (I would be happy with 50). I figured that if I concentrated on geometry and if I answer the 3 geometry questions correctly then I'll have the 50 marks that I needed to pass the exam. I ignored mathematics completely and I studied only the geometry. It was very risky because I lost half of the marks before I entered the examination room! I had only one chance to pass that exam, and that was by answering all the geometry questions. On the other hand that saved time that maybe I would have lost on studying mathematics without being sure of the result.

So like this I entered the examination room with full confidence in myself, that I’ll pass this exam successfully. I answered the 3 geometry questions and I ignored mathematics completely. I was sure that I would obtain high marks in my other subjects but I really needed the 50 marks in mathematics. I finished all the exams and I waited for the result, and it was exactly what I needed, 50 marks in mathematics and higher marks in other subjects. I didn’t only pass that examination but I also obtained higher marks than I needed to choose the subjects that I needed for the future. That was because I understood my mind well and I found that I am not good with mathematics so why waste my time and to be confused with studying it, it was better to concentrate on the things that I was good at.

Here is another example; in school we needed to study Arabic culture, we needed to remember poems off by heart. We had to write them down complete in the examination, each poem contained 10 lines. I found that it needed lots of time to try and learn them. I found after a little while it was hard to remember and some times I still forgot the poems, so I thought about finding a good way to remember them, I kept thinking and thinking (I was nearly 11 years old) finally I found the best way of learning these poems, was like this; I started by reading each poem 3 times, then I would read every line 3 times, after that I stopped reading that poem completely. The result was marvelous, in less time than before I remembered the poem, it took me less than 1 hour to finish my reading when before it took me unlimited time.

Like I explained before, our brain puts the information within patterns in our memory, at first we gain the information randomly! And our mind works to put all the random data in order. So I discovered that if I collected the information in a good ordered way before I pass it on to my brain then it will help me to save time and effort. It’s something like training; we just need to find the best way that fits our needs.

I did that also to help me learn English afterwards. I had a big desire to learn English, to help me to read books (now I can write books in English) and improve my study of English in school, I found that I wasn’t able to read and understand English very well (my original language is Arabic) so I felt that I needed to read books written in English!!! I tried to remember as many words as I could from English language Dictionaries, but it was really hard. At first I started to use a normal dictionary to learn words randomly, but I found that I was forgetting the words after a very short time. I discovered that with random learning I was just wasting time without any positive results.

Honestly I felt I had stopped learning because all the studies in school plus my own private attempts to learn, failed to help me to read books in English well, and I felt ready to give up. By accident I found a special English dictionary. It had the words in a special order. In that dictionary there was 6000 words (it's written in English, it hadn't any Arabic words in it at all). These 6000 words had been sorted into 5 levels according to its frequency of use in daily life. Each word had number in front of it; the numbers were from 1 to 5. For example, if the word had (1) after it, then it was used more in daily life than the word that had (2). So I started by reading the words that have the number (1) and ignored the rest of the words.

There were nearly 600 pages in that dictionary, so I set myself a program, to read 10 pages every day. That meant I spent 60 days on each level and 300 days for the whole dictionary. For me that was a really good program, if I compare it with 15 years of studying in school without any positive results, so if I put my mind to it, I would be able to read books in English properly in just 300 days. To read 10 pages of that dictionary took less than 2 hours, for me it was nothing, to learn such an important skill that will help me for the rest of my life, and more than that it was free because it was self-taught.

Only reading 10 pages of that dictionary, wasn’t enough, I needed to remember 6000 words. For that I invented a special way to organize the words, I used a normal handbook to write down the words, I wrote the word in English at the beginning of the line, then I wrote it’s meaning in Arabic then I repeated it in English for the rest of the line, like this for example:

*bookكتابbookbookbookbookbookbookbookbookbookbook*

I did that for each word but once only (one line for each word). I continued like that, with no change in my program. The result was magnificent; before I finished the 300 days I was able to read and understand books written in English, after that I stopped reading books in Arabic.

I hope you understand the difference between random learning and organized learning.

Our brain collects information about life with our senses; the amount of the information that our mind receives everyday is tremendous! But it can deal with all this information fast and efficiently. We can help our brain do its job better with our understanding of these operations. I observed many phenomena in my life, and have learnt lots by observing and thinking. I hope I helped you to understand something with my writing, but my biggest hope is to help you maybe to start thinking in a slightly different way, to discover new things about our life and to add this to all human knowledge.