/sci/ - Science & Math

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>background processing of the brain
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I'm just wildly spitballing here but I think maybe different parts of the brain use their own language or logic processing architecture. Visual, abstract, vocalization, mathematical, sensual, proto. These are all borrowed from parts of the brain that are highly specialized for 1 task. The subconscious learns all these different languages by observing different parts of the brain. Then it can understand and interact with all these different parts of your brain/body. Then it reprograms the prefrontal cortex, any time it needs to, and uses or thinks in the language or logic architecture which ever it thinks is the fast or most efficient, or most useful.

The conscious mind CAN learn these things, but it doesn't need to. The subconscious mind is there and can translate thoughts from one language or processing architecture to another. However translation takes time and mental energy. So it's quite advantageous to learn the original language that the thoughts come in. Some people are HEAVILY invested in 1 form of thinking and resistant to changing their thought architecture, like the professor, so he INSISTS thought must be translated first into a thought architecture or signed language that his mind can understand It's not that humans can't do it like the professor says, just that some people never learn. Which is what I think you were saying.

Another way to skip most of the lengthy translation process, and just give the subconscious a general task. The subconscious does the task, thinking in which ever form/language is fastest, without the conscious mind needing to get involved. It can be a completely 1 directional thought process with the conscious being 100% unaware of what's happening, however the subconscious can provide data back to the conscious mind in the form of small updates or maybe progress reports.This would be more like trance or a hypnotic state and happens all, mostly when you're not thinking about it