Understanding-“understanding”

When we understand something- a concept, a phenomenon, an idea, we seem to experience a feeling of joy, as if we are meeting a long lost friend! The more complex the concept/phenomenon/idea the greater is the joy.
Why should understanding result in experiencing joy?
Is it that when we feel that we have “understood”, what is actually happening is that we have recognized/recalled the concept/phenomenon/idea that was existing in our mind (mind=organization of thoughts) in some form.
Then, the process of understanding is akin to dusting/uncovering/discovering that which was pre-existing. And we feel joy because we intuitively know that we have found what we were looking for (when we have not fully understood we have a nagging feeling, however hard we try to convince our self that we have understood).
Then, understanding perhaps is discovering that which existed in mind and the description of the form of that which we uncovered/recognized is called knowledge!
If so, then perhaps, all knowledge pre-exists in some form in our mind and when we understand we just become aware of its form/recognize its existence and bring that to our consciousness.

“Reality”

Reality is but one’s interpretation of stimulus/signs/perceptions.
An unconventional reading of that which is being perceived would lead to new/altered realities/ a new world. But conventions develop because they are useful-useful because many use the same conventions to derive their realities and make sense of their world. An unconventional reading would lead to non agreement with respect to realities.
“Reality” then is an ‘agreed upon’ interpretation-a “manufactured consent” to facilitate smoother social transactions/interactions towards some goal. So then realities emerge from goals and would change/alter with goals!

The Lure of the Forbidden

The forbidden is appealing perhaps because in it we “sense” the “reflections” of our “projected thoughts” regarding living our true self-”the self”, thoughts that are untempered by considerations of any external sanctions, even that of the constructed “self image”. The lure of the forbidden then is the lure of the true self-”the self”.
But why then that which appears to be emitting images of our true self-”the self” is deemed forbidden?
Perhaps forbidding and resultant non constancy of appearance of the images of “the self” sustains and enhances the interest in and meaningfulness of people, objects and ideas, thus “suggesting” purposes for life. The “forbidding” thus seems to be a construction for making life purposeful.

Silence as Thinking

Thoughts are perhaps feelings (with low arousal levels at which detachment is still possible) which are expressed in a given language. Language is perhaps a system of labels given to symbols with sounds and infused with given meanings which are perhaps erroneously assumed to be similarly understood in a culture despite semantic differences.

Since language is a system of symbols sanctioned and infused with meanings by a culture which then puts a limit to thought, original thinking perhaps calls for “multilingual thinking” with new metaphors and symbols, hence immersion in and appreciation of new cultures becomes highly desirable.

How can one make his individual thinking transcend limits imposed by language(s)?

Perhaps the experience of “not finding words to express” could give a clue. One could attempt use of multiple abstracted images, music, perfumes…….experiential artifacts as simile to approximate thoughts (an attempt at a kind of “triangulation” of expression).

But will communication then happen? Perhaps it will but without expression….through individually felt feelings.

Human nature as reflected in liking of people, objects and ideas

Through people/objects/ideas that we compulsively court/acquire/espouse we are perhaps trying to fulfill ‘some’ deeply felt ‘unattained’ deprivations of our remote/forgotten past, the past moment when we felt deeply vulnerable; thus trying to kind of quench the visceral thirst which remains insatiable–an attempt at compensation.
We perhaps project onto them and imbue them with forbidden (by self) meanings and they thus are essentially surrogates.
The choice of people/objects/ideas is perhaps influenced by the fleeting images of the contextual imprinting moments.
But why were the deprivations felt ‘deeply’ in the first place? Perhaps because they are the deprivations of the ‘basic instincts’ of a person’s individuality– his self.

MIND & DECLINE OF PEOPLES

Perhaps, an inability to grasp the complex leads to decline of peoples. The “faculty of grasping the complex” perhaps get muted because of seduction of (pleasure principle) ease of attributing to singular causes, which is reinforced through rituals/drills; and then perhaps becomes almost a reflex leading to inertia in peoples.
Cultivating a habit of deciphering nuances might regenerate and evolve the “faculty of grasping the complex”.

WE-THE Humanity

Why does humanity have the mental/feeling frame of reference “We-They” and not “We-All”?

CREATION OF SELF-that “ORIGINAL FEELING”……………………

How is the Self Created?????????????

If homo sapiens have an instinct to thrive, then the Self- “that Original Feeling,” gives human beings flexibility of taking self identity positions in accordance with prevailing state of environment……………Perhaps then it is the IMPRINTING MOMENT OF CONCIOUSNESS that freezes “the Original Feeling”- The Self…………….

THOUGHTS ABOUT THOUGHTS & MIND………………………..

What is Mind?

What are thoughts? (Nature); How do thoughts arise? (Cause); Why do they come to us? (Purpose)

Perhaps mind is the organization thoughts………including the thoughts which direct other thoughts……..pattern of thinking

AND perhaps thoughts are generated by the” Will” of the “Self”. Why should the “Self”…………the “Identity”……….the “Original Feeling” do so?………..

Is it the “nature” of the Self to “Will” the thoughts in its image????……..If so then perhaps the thoughts give the Self some sort of positive reinforcement about itself………….a self sustaining mechanism of the Self………..Thus perhaps the “Thoughts” and the “Self” are in a reciprocal relationship……….??????????? In that case the Thoughts are the “Vectors” which “mirror” the image of the “Self” for the “Self”…………..But thoughts also get distracted/affected/influenced by the environment in which the Self operates…………and hence the stress/shear due to non congruence between the “original feeling identity-the Self”–reinforced by the thoughts willed by the Self and the image of The Self reflected to it by the environment………… Thoughts then are the building blocks of the image of the SELF for self sustenance of the Self……………

The WILL???……………The SELF???

Perhaps that (wrt the post “MIND” of 25/12/09) which controls thoughts could be called the WILL of an individual. But where does it reside and what is its nature? If it controls thoughts then it is taking a decision………..is it a thought then…..a case of cognitions controlling cognitions……..do cognition types have a hierarchy then like Maslow’s hierarchy?
Could we call that controlling power “The Will” of an individual? But how and why does the will arise… May be the will arises out of self identity……….that deep seated feeling about who one is. So thoughts are controlled by thoughts called the will which in turn is formed by the self which is a feeling. Where does that feeling come from? Perhaps it exists…apriori

MIND

Mind can be trained into patterns of thinking…….. then what is it that minds the training of the mind?

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