Category Behavior

Mind Limits Understanding The Mind

When we need the Mind to recognize patterns to perceive and be understood, we can say that while being studied becomes an Object of the Observed.

The Observer is some thing else.

The Mind is able to observe thoughts and There is something else that observes the Mind as well.

Indian Philosophy classifies three things in respect of Mind.

Brain,the activity of which leads to the

Mind, Buddhi, The Discriminator.

Chitha, the dispositions( not the predispositions of Indian Philosophy, which means Vasanas or tendencies acquired over years including the previous Births)

The Observer is different from the Observed at the mundane or Transitory world.

To recognize an Object as the object, for that matter as an Object, Recognition is required.

Recognition is possible only when there is Data stored already.

For instance, to recognize a Rose as a Rose, at the first instance, we need some one to describe it .

But extend the logic.

How a Rose would have have been identified as such for the First Human Being as such when there were none around?

This calls for apriori Knowledge.(Knowledge that is innate.

This is the foundation of Idealism of Philosophy. whic h has been explained by Rene Descartes in His Books Principia philosophiae (Principles of Philosophy),Regulae ad directionem ingenii (Rules for the Direction of the Mind)'

Mind lets us know what it wants us to know.

As Nature does.

Orangutan Fishes With A Spear

We call ourselves the most evolved of the Species with an ability to do things and can handle tools.

But an Orangutan is found fishing with a Spear after watching local Fishermen!

Story:

Tool use among orangutans was first documented by Carel van Schaik. In 1994, Carel observed orangutans developing tools to help themselves eat, while conducting field work in Gunung Leuser National Park, in the northwest Sumatra...
“a male orangutan, clinging precariously to overhanging branches, flails the water with a pole, trying desperately to spear a passing fish…