Generally mind does 'like' patterns 'only'

Yesterday, my friend was watching some movie. I just went to his room and did see some action packed shots, during those shots my very focus was on very fast moving shots and a little bit focus on actors. When the thrill completes and the focus comes on the actors in a slow scene, I did notice the Hero and Heroin, and I felt that I was not very much liking them, I felt that how/why can they be the actors in this movie. I even did not know what kind of movie it was, what was the theme, probably they were the best suited actors for the script. 

Why so, I had a particular kind of image of the 'The Hero' and 'The Heroin', and anything which is below that pattern, mind just tries to discards and tries to question it, and if something is more than that pattern, it tries to appreciate it. 

Why so, the mind is bounded by certain patterns created by some kind of past experiences, it does not believe OR not let us believe in the present reality, it just keeps on matching the patterns and keeps giving it's verdicts.

It is very important to understand this kind of behavior of ones own mind and try developing such kind of faculty so one mere does not react by the pattern based results of mind but can realize the 'exact', what is in reality and how is it impacting one.

If I write something more, it will be more related to human consciousness so I will extend the though somewhere else!!!

Mind behaviour in sound mapping

Today, I got a phone call from one of my school time friend, almost after 10 Years.

He said, "I am Surrender calling from 'my school name'". As soon as he said those words I started to search for the voice which was mapping to the image of of Surrender, of my school. Initially the voice was a bit different, but, as soon as the voice matched, I was only hearing the same voice of old time Surrender.
And, somehow, I was able to 'know' this kind of thing is going on within me!!!

During the whole conversation, I was hearing the same old time voice, not the new changed voice, though it was the truth of the moment.

And now, after conversation too, I only remember the old Surrender's voice, not his changed voice!!!

A Beautiful Mind - The Movie

I won't talk about the starcast, the acting, the picturization etc. there things are just superb!!! those are what the oscar was for :)

I am just getting curious(I really can not hold myself on to write about this movie) to talk about the content. As a summary, the movie is about some disease, which forces the brain to think about unreal things and believe them as real. That unreal can be anything, be something living, non-living, some situation; means anything that can happen to. And moreover the person in the context is very good at numbers, he is a mathematician. He can deal with complex things so his problems are also supposed to be complex :)

Movie starts at Princeton university, where a new batch of PHD students have come by Carnegie's scholarship. Among them, one is our subject, John Nash. He is extremely good in maths, who only thinks in terms of mathematical expressions, can figure out mistakes in others papers, but is unable to find a subject for himself to write thesis about because he wants to write his thesis on some original idea which strike the economic balance in the world economy, the governing dynamics. He has so much belief in his mathematical ability that he can not even take his defeat as he infers that the game itself is wrong. 

He does not have many friends or a social circle because he thinks that people do not like him. He does not believe classes or books, they will destroy the potential for authentic creativity.  His roommate, Charles, is a very humorous kind of person. After some struggles he was able to write his mathematical thesis on his desired subject. And gets his placement at the desired place, the wheeler labs. He gets into some blues withe the defence and the enemies(Russian agents this time).

After few years of work at wheeler labs, he has shown at pentagon, breaking some encrypted code with his mathematical ability. After being successful in first assignment at pentagon, he is contacted by some person from the defence. During his lectures at university he gets a practical lesson from a girl student that their could be multiple ways so solving a given problem. He again tries to link it with multi variable calculus. During the course of time, he goes along with the defence(with William) and keep helping them by breaking codes. Time passes, few things happen and he gets married to the same girl.

One day he gets arrested by some people and taken to a pschycatric hospital. His wife was informed by doctor that since after completing his graduation he was suffering from a disease called "". In this disease, the person goes into the imaginary world and start believing in unreal things. schizophrenia, people with this disorder are often paranoid. Doctors and his wife found  that his friend Charles and Mr William are unreal. All the time he has been trying to get out something very secret from the magazines but all unreal array of situations. These things are only in his mind, he is sick. Doctors  start the treatment, insulin shocks for 5 days a week, unto 10 weeks.

His wife gets a baby and starts facing the reality bravely. She feels that instead of feeling angry or guilty, she is still able to see the same John whom she loved and when she feel that she again start loving him. This keeps get her going. At home John starts recovering, but he leaves the medications because of some reasons and again start seeing the unreal friend, friend's nephew and defence man, Mr. William. One day due to his unreal considerations he becomes a threat to their own baby. Her wife calls the doctor again. Doctor suggests to take him to the hospital again and start the full course of treatment again. He denies and decides to fight with his own mind by his will(power). Suddenly he notices that the girl never gets old and asserts it as unreal. His wife decides to stay with him and sends the baby to her mother's house.

He understands one thing that delusions are their in his mind and if he understands this and makes this concrete than he can just ignore them, let them be there and keep living the way it is. As a trial to become normal, he starts to go university again, there his unreal mind takes him over and he becomes a scene. He is again and again threatened and chased by the unreal, imaginary, his mind created things. But, with the passage of time he strongly develops the faculty of watching them objectively. If they try to take you over then ignore them strongly but do not react much. After getting defeated again and again he does not loose and keep trying, of course his wife was always there to support him. She does not let him loose the heart and the mantle battle too. Finally he is able to tell his unreal friends that he is not going to talk to them any more.

He gets his first lecture and a lots of praise too. The unreal friends still do exist but they are just there, they are not able to affect him, as he is not paying attention to them and not reacting to them. The dialogues between John and his real friend are quite meaningful here. He is old now is considerably able to mix up in the university and becomes famous within the students. At this moment of time he is nominated with noble prize for his theory of equilibrium. I am quoting some dialogues among John and the person who invites him, "I still see the things which are not here but I just choose not to acknowledge, like my appetite I choose not to feed my mind for certain things."

Now the speech at Nobel prize ceremony, "I have always believed in numbers, in equations, in logic's that lead to reason but after a lifetime of such pursuits  I ask what truly is logic who decides its reason, my quest has taken me to the physical, metaphysical, the delusional and back. And I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most discovery of my life, it is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found."

The movie ends.

The movie symbolizes some illusions that keep haunting people through-out their lives. Whenever you do right so many things from internal start to stop you. So many things from external, the society, start to stop you.

But, I am little bit confused about the title of the movie "A Beautiful Mind". Could it be because everyone(rather every one's mind) has some kind of illusions, but only some of them are able to figure that out and only few of them are able to live with them, honestly.

(Probably this is turning out to be the limitation of language to not being able to express the views)

Later on I realized about some of the prejudices of my own mind. Few times I myself was under prejudices that he(John) was right and the scene on the screen does not have the actual meaning, but later on I found that the scene had a very clear meaning as it was shown.

Whenever you do right so many things from internal start to stop you. so many things from external, the society, start to stop you.

Improve Memory, Mind, Brain workout

DO you find that you aren’t as ‘on top’ of things as you used to be? Maybe you forget oft-repeated telephone numbers or misplace important documents. You blame your brain and assume that this is an inevitable result of advancing years.

Well, you couldn’t be more mistaken! Memory lapses or an overloaded brain can occur at any stage. The trick is to keep your brain alert and active. Remember, that like any other muscle in your body, your brain too, is a muscle. If you don’t use it, you are definitely going to lose it! There’s a reason experts have almost gone blue in the face emphasising the importance of mental exercises or mind games, that’ll keep your brain agile and stimulated. Agrees Dr Sujay Rao, a neurologist at Manipal Hospital, “Actively using your brain can retard certain age-related diseases. In fact, using your brain to the maximum extent means that the various connections of your brain cells are alive. Otherwise, the cells could die out. And certain board games definitely help here.”
The brain is called upon to simultaneously regulate unconscious functions like breathing, body temperature and digestion; conscious functions, such as movement and talking; and so-called cognitive functions, such as thinking, learning, feeling and remembering. To help the brain keep up this lifelong juggling act, researchers are increasingly coming to view a healthy brain as a “worked out” brain – one that is regularly stimulated and challenged by rigorous mind-taxing tasks.
Comfortably ensconced in the skull, the brain needs to be used and exercised just like any other part of our anatomy. Your brain does grow smaller with age, and if you don’t stimulate it enough, then according to experts, you actually risk lowering your capacity for learning! Research shows that keeping your brain nimble with new, challenging and stimulating activities is the best way to keep your mind sharp. That’s exactly where the importance of games and puzzles like sudoku, kakuro, nintendo, monopoly, jigsaws, etc come in. In fact, research shows that by stretching the brain with regular crossword and sudoku puzzles, you can make your brain function like it’s 14 years younger!
The thing to remember is that though lack of sleep, stress and poor eating habits can adversely affect your brain, the effects can be countered if you flex your mental muscle enough. Explains Ronald Petersen, a neurologist and specialist in memory disorders,
“Brain exercises don’t need to be the
equivalent of weight lifting.
Playing board games, reading, taking classes or
anything that engages your mind, helps.” Brain exercises are one of the few things that people can do to be proactive about stopping or slowing down cognitive decline. And it’s infinitely better than popping pills! In fact, a study conducted in China found that cognitive ability declined less in elderly people who did puzzles, played games or engaged in other mentally stimulating activities.
The brain obviously doesn’t just need a workout, it basically thrives on it. Like Dr Joe Verghese, an assistant professor of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New
York City, says, “The more you indulge in mentally stimulating activities – such as crossword puzzles or playing chess – the better it is.” He recently co-authored a study that found that seniors who engage in a wide variety of mental pursuits while at leisure – such as playing a musical instrument, reading and playing cards or board-games – seem to dramatically lower their risk for developing dementia. But he stresses that it’s never too early to incorporate mental exercise into the daily planner. In fact, it’s a habit that should be encouraged right from childhood. “If you haven’t built a lifestyle that includes mentally stimulating activities in your 50s as a habit, it’s unlikely you will do so in your 60s,” he points out.
The Alzheimer’s Association also recommends puzzles as therapy based on studies which suggest that they might improve memory, attention and problem-solving capabilities, while staving off mental decline and perhaps, even reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Studies of patients with Alzheimer’s, dementia or attention deficit disorder have found that those who play games have better speech and brain function as well. There is growing evidence that people who engage in puzzles, board games and other mentally stimulating activities can reduce the risk of memory loss and dementia as they age.
Adds Dr Milind Vaidya, a neurosurgeon at Mumbai’s Wockhardt Hospital, “Routine activities – or daily chores – don’t really make optimum use of the brain. That’s why mental exercises are required to keep the brain fit and its cells active.”
That might explain why people these days can be seen furiously scribbling into newspapers while they frantically finish the all-important sudoku, or perhaps the cryptic crossword! Like Avani Patel, a 24-year-old sudoku enthusiast says, “As sudoku is a very logical game, I’d like to believe that at times I apply the same logic in real life too. After all, as you go about filling up each column, it does teach you that one can look at a problem in many ways. And that if you persevere hard enough, there definitely will be a solution.” No wonder the entire country is saying, Lage Raho…
According to Dr Vaidya, the more one exercises the brain – especially with numbers – the better will be one’s retention power as well as productivity. “If you notice, there are many senior citizens who have an extremely agile and alert brain. Why? Chances are that they’ve been handling or looking into the family’s finances for years, so their brains have been active. As something like sudoku is also all about numbers, it definitely goes a long way in keeping your brain fit,” he explains.
So perhaps it’s time for you to stop running away from numbers and actually befriend them as they may just be your saving grace in your golden years!
Just think about it as a mental workout – the more you do, the better

fast processing in brain

You must have heard people saying that "do not indulge in useless things". Why, let us take the example of computer. Like humans, computers also have memory to store data and processor to process the data. Now, the data which is required very frequently is stored in processor registers. Now to produce right results it is very important to have the right data(always applicable in case of computers) in memory. If wrong data or extra data keep residing in the processor memory then either the result will be wrong or delayed.
Similarly, human brain also processes the data which is available to it. Now, how the data is made available to the brain, through our memory. And, what is contained in our memory, the
thoughts generated by the activities in which we are involved. Now, if we keep ourselves involved in useless things then this data always keeps the active memory(let us call processor registers as active memory to talk about human brain) full and when we need to think on something else or something useful then it will take time to make it available to the brain as some other data is already there in active memory.
For example, if you are crossing a busy road with a contained mind then you will take more time to react against a fast coming vehicle. What can be done to avoid this, to keep the active memory free and to process the data fast. Now, after realizing the logical reason behind the processing of data in your brain and understanding how useless indulgence can be responsible for making you slow. Then, any time any place you can give a thought to know your state of mind and you will come to know that what is there in your mind, is this really useful, necessary. Slowly slowly you may start checking your memory very frequently and help yourself in keep it clean from useless data(thoughts).

mapping and associativity in brain

Have you ever tried to thought how thoughts or more precisely how data is evolved in human mind. It has been more than few years when I was trying to think hard on some topic, I was not getting anything in my mind related to that topic. But, when I remembered something then very soon I was also able to remember other details also about the same topic.
How do we put data in our mind, sequentially. One thing is to sure that to think you need something, some data to work upon. When one starts thinking about any topic then first something comes in your mind and then slowly other things also keep coming. From this new data, some is the resultant of the processing of previous data and some matching data is already found in your mind, in your memory.
Whenever someone tries to remember any past data, it seems to be stored as images, all connected and linked to each other. You remember a particular one and you find a full chain of related data. For example, if some word like, country comes to your mind then depending upon the state of your mind you start thinking in a particular direction about that country. You may start thinking about the population of that country, if so, then you may start thinking about the division of population geographically. This may trigger a thought about the terrains or mountains or rivers in that country. As thoughts are based on data so, one can go to any direction depending on the availability and associativity of data.

meaning of experience

I came across a very good example of experience that can be related to the definition of right and wrong also. I used to think that why people do their business in greedy manner. Let us take an example, whenever I saw a newspaper publishing more advertisements than the news, I used to think that how can these guys so greedy and irresponsible. People pay to read the news and these guys are selling ads, but yesterday when I was thinking about putting a web link on every outgoing mail, I started to think that I will put a very small link at some hidden sort of place on the mail. But, I did not stop there and I kept thinking about covering more and more space in a greedy manner.
Then, suddenly I found myself justifying the ideas of covering more and more space and thought that what is wrong in utilizing the space which is available. But, when others were doing this then I was reacting in a different way. What does it mean? it means that mere reading or seeing anything does not create a real experience, only when one feels with his/her own senses then it becomes a real experience.
Without this experience I would keep thinking that some people are always greedy and do the business in greedy manner. But now, I probably understand that some feelings, some patterns evolve slowly and every small feeling(greed) becomes a base for a bigger feeling(greed). But, when a person does not have the experience of a feeling at the beginning level(putting just a web link) then after experiencing the feeling at bigger level(news paper greeds), he/she may start calling people wrong. As my greed also has stages, started from a very small level i.e putting a web link and subsequently increased to cover the whole page.

Whether greedy business is right or wrong is a different matter but the exercise shows that how perspectives are created in human mind and how experiences influence the perspectives .