Model theory
How does our brain know things
"We live in a medium of complexity which was simple at the beginning and will be simple at the end"
According to the Oxford English dictionary model means "Something which accurately resembles or represents something else, esp. on a small scale". This word is in greater usage since the 1950s in various forms and meanings. But my focus is on the meaning mentioned above. The word itself is derived from a Latin word meaning modulus which essentially denotes a measure or standard. It is very essential to understand this basic definition of the model to read further.
From the time we have born many things are fed to our minds. As we grow those things take a very different shape in terms of understanding. Now my question is how our brain does it? How we receive things and how we manipulate them and give them many add-ons.
To understand what I am saying let us take an example. All of us know what a stone is. Now if I ask you to describe a stone what will be your answer? Generally, anyone will think of it as a solid object, rigid, strong, irregular in shape, and many more characteristic features of it. So these things will run in one's mind. Now If I show a thing like a lump of white powder what you may think about it. Again some more things will run on your mind. It may coincide with your thinking of stone but I am not sure. Now I say this lump of stone is called Talc (that we use in facial powder) and some people may know it and some people may not know this fact, now again many things will run in one's mind. The people who know this will confirm this fact and make it a strong feed-in his mind. The people who don't know about it will be a new feed-in and they will partially fill it in their mind.
Here is an analogous concept to understand, We take a photo and save it in our phone, then we take a screenshot and save it in our phone then we edit a photo and save it in our phone for you the photo may be different but in the language of computers, all of them are a set of binary arrays which feed a piece of information which upon extraction or processed will give us what we called as an image. But here is the important thing to note even though all are images each one will store in different files.
Upon understanding the above now we are going to make this a little more complex understanding of models in our brain. Some straight facts to know before proceeding. Our brain is a biological matter, 60% of fat, 75% of water, a network of blood vessels over 100,000 miles long, many different chemicals, elements like potassium, sodium, calcium, chlorine which cause electrical activity and many gray things are present in our brain. So simply speaking it is a very complex structure made up of very simple and elementary things present in the world.
As a child when we look at a stone we feel it in many ways, we touch it, we see it, we may sometimes feel pain from it by getting hit. So we developed an idea about it. At those times the neurons (if you don't know search in google) fire and store information about it in our brain. Now my problem arises in this part itself. Neurons are a bunch of electrical signals so they are charge carriers by the nature of physics. Now think of this logic, if you want to store something that will occupy space let it be anything from words to tons of steel it requires some physical space. Now come to the brain if there are charge carriers mostly it will be electrons, as we know electrons are very small physical objects that make matter so they occupy space. Now my doubt should be clear to you. If the information about the stone is stored in my brain how it is stored where it is stored and in what form it is stored? This is my first set of problems.
Now let's proceed with this abstract idea that the overall information is stored in the brain. As a child I know something about stone as a physical object now an I grow I will see many things about stone like its types, more precise images, more uses of stone, and more. Now what I think is that this information will be stored along with the pre-existing memory of stone but my initial or the first information of stone will eventually fade off and now we will have a well-defined structure and the idea of stone. I.e. there will be a great difference between a child's idea of stone and a man's idea of stone but here again one doubt how the information is manipulated and how it is taking its form? Does it have an algorithm or something?
The above questions are not complete there are more questions to ask but for now, it is enough to proceed with my exploration and explanation of my model theory.
Idea altiore of Model theory
This is not a well explained or a well-explored conclusion but it is the beginning of something. The main idea is that we people receive or feed the information in our minds using various models. So we have a plethora of models in our minds from the smell of our mother to the exciting view of stares. One of the beauties of these models is that they are perfect and they are not mixed. Each and every model stand-alone and be its own kind and give life to us. And over time the things we see will be fed in the model and it is enhanced in some or other way. Even by seeing a single object, many models are enhanced for instance if you see a diamond the models of color, stones, value, beauty, economy, and many other unique models of your own are enhanced in a mysterious way. So in a simple statement model theory simply say that we humans identify and experience the world around us through models and analyzing those models in my work.
NOTE:
- This is just a beginning, not a full work.
- There are many more questions to be asked.
- This will be a long work so will take time to fully develop.
- Do not confuse this with the MODEL THEORY in mathematics this and that is entirely different.
- It is just amateur work for now.
- If and discussion, I am very much open to it.
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