Tuesday, March 3, 2009

deeper into mind

The expression ‘deeper and deeper into the mind’ is not actually very precise. The mind has several directions and angles that can be probed. Why depth alone? Let us compare it to a computer which is somewhat similar to our brains:
1. The computer is powered by electricity through the power supply unit. Power makes the computer capable of working, and without it the computer is useless. The parallel in the mind is the Life Force which keeps the brains alive. This is the awareness of the body and brain cells.
When you probe deeper and deeper, backwards from the thought processes, can you reach the life force or the awareness of the cells? Awareness or attention, meaning focused awareness, is perhaps the power that ticks the brain. But that does not seem to explain the several intricate functions of the mind.
2. Computer has BIOS with built in memory. There is of course the built in memory in the brain, which enables the heart to beat, lungs to breathe, stomach to digest etc, etc. and also the brain to compute and mind to think. This is already there right from birth, inherited through genes from parents and forefathers.
3. Computer has RAM, the working memory. The working memory in Man is the immediate memory that can be recalled at will either from the brain or sometimes instinctively from the genes.
4. Computer uses memory storage devices like the Hard Disc, CD, or Pen Drive, and the like. All that has been stored in the human mind from birth to the present time constitute the Hard Disc, CD, and other storage devices.
5. Now comes the difficult part. Out sourced Servers have their own memory as well as memory in the Internet that supplies the computers information not available locally. Is there any parallel in life? Are there any servers there, far in outer-space somewhere, that have data and information kept ready for supply to brain servers on special requests(IRQs!). Can the human brain be specially configured by meditation to receive them?

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