Happiness Is A Scam by Santosh Jha (great books for teens txt) 📕

limbic system. We already know; how philosophies and psychologies have been woven around this dualism of logicality versus emotionalism. Since ages and especially in modern times; you must have heard people saying, ‘Listen to your heart and not your brain, when in trouble’. There are also advocacies just contrary to it. This dualism is predominantly human as we have already talked as how in humans, unconscious, subconscious and conscious is in continuum and therefore, emotionalism and logicality are also in continuum; vying for dominance in decision-making. Scientific assertion is that while in most animals, the decision is emotionally-handled, but even in humans; majority of decisions are subconscious and therefore prone to emotional decisions. The conflict however is there predominantly only in human mind. A conflict can attain logical decision-making only when it is postponed and subjected to leisurely thoughtfulness. Animals do not have long-term domain of decisions. They act as reaction and their survival is only short-term reactionary intelligence. Their conflict is short term and mostly pertains to emotional response of a situation. Only humans can afford ‘long-term’ and that is why conflict is also a lingering one, having to sync with ‘logicality’. Science tells us that human brain works as a multi-organ cooperative but we can gauge, there must be loads of confusion and conflict in brain processing of information as it handles two conflicting and competing insinuations and propensities. Science also tells us that it takes over 25 years for a new born human brain to ‘mature’ and develop pathways for those ‘logical’ structures, necessary for wellness and successes in human societies. That is why; teenagers have trouble with societies and cultures. Their brain; which society calls as not yet ‘mature’; still works largely as ‘emotional’ brain, with their innate and wired subconscious mind dominated by limbic system. The cortex brain states and their synaptic plexuses, responsible for ‘logical’ behavior and actions are still not ‘mature’, as it takes 25 years to develop. This shows; human brain’s perception of what realities it faces in man-made external milieus is largely confounded and abstracted. We all have experiences from our early youthfulness as how it was difficult to strike a balance between ‘normality’ benchmarks of personal acceptance and that of the society and cultures. This can be understood in another way too. Science tells us that almost 98 percent of our daily life-living decisions are made by our subconscious mind and we do not even register it. They are handled by the limbic system of the brain states and in these processing of decisions, aware ‘intervention’ of self or ‘I’ is not required. Only two percent of decisions are made in conscious minds, when there is the need of definitive and very aware self, intervening and making an ‘informed’ choice. Like experienced car drivers do not even remember they are driving, whereas a person still learning driving is overly aware of all small moves, he or she has to make while driving. This suggests; we are ‘logical’ only very rarely as most of the time there is no need for it. Why? Because, human brain ‘matures’ in 25 years to accept most populist and dominant ‘logic’ of normality and appropriate of society-cultures and therefore, he or she has very little ‘conflict’ in his or her daily life-living. However, a person, who consciously evolves and grows not accepting the ‘logic’, shall make more than two percent decisions as conscious self as he or she shall be far more ‘conflicted’, confronting populist logic. Culturally and as dominant societal norm, it is considered ‘abnormal’ and ‘inappropriate’ for a person to have conflicts. Society-culture-politics look with suspicion a person who does not fall in line with popular and dominant sense of righteousness and questions them. This in a way means – man-made intelligence wants all men and women to be so ‘conformist’ that they do not ever need to be ‘Conscious’ persons as aware and conscious decision-making happens only when a person is conflicted. Culture wants emotional ‘slaves’, not individuals with logical and conscious personality. Politics and commerce also seek the same. We all know and see it happening in our daily lives as how politics, commerce and faith structures always fan up emotionalism by instilling fear complexes in people’s subconscious mind. This is one aspect of the probability of scam. When perception is not singular and wired in entirety of brain states; when perceptions are ‘scammed’ by unscrupulous elements and structures of society-culture as well as people of politics and profit-empire, there is good probability of scam creeping in and getting installed in individual’s subconscious mind states. The human world’s long history of depravity-brutality-criminality and growingly increasing propensities for scamming for successes only corroborate this probability. We shall deal with it later.

Context of ‘Processing’ of Information of Reality

The next stage in brain functioning is processing of information received from milieus. Some scientists object to the term ‘processing’ as they feel, it analogues human brain with a computer, which is an erroneous comparison. It is not yet known in full details as how brain works out information and how it ‘fixes’ and metaphors meanings into it, for feel and further action. We do not need to go into it. We are essentially concerned with some different aspect of information ‘processing’. We shall however take care not to confuse the term processing with those ideas popular in artificial intelligence world of information processing. What we are talking about is the dualism and conflict in processing of information by brain plexuses, which is essentially compartmentalized, yet cooperatively synced. Science has provided some insights into what this conflict could be all about. Science has in recent years begun to believe that a successful trait of human brain is not its memory power but the innate ability to forget and forgo. This makes a huge difference in the mechanism of processing of information, which we popularly accept as. Science is probably right in hypothesizing that it is a huge advantage, extended by evolution that human brain seems to have the inbuilt inclination to forget information. This aspect is very critical for survival and has deep meaning in human life-living. We however do not have the space and focus here to detail them. Science tells us that memory in human brain is probably unique. Though, much still needs to be known about how human memory is created and works, we now know that human brain has three layers of memory. One is wired and reactionary memory a human child is born with. Second is short term memory and third is long term memory. Wired memory works when a new born automatically holds breath, when thrown in a water tank. Short term memory helps in daily-life or routine living navigation, like recognizing faces, remembering streets and traffic signals. The long term memory is however the unique one, which may also be very exclusive to humans. It is known that wired and short term memories are handled primarily by the limbic system – the old mammalian brain, based largely on emotionally contextual perceptions of external milieus and habit-spectrum of motor actions. It is probably common in all animals. We have already talked as why and how 98 percent of human tasks do not need ‘conflict’ resolution and therefore handled by limbic brain system, about which a person is not even aware. The long term memory however seems something, which needs to be explored in better details. It is now known that long term memory is handled largely by cortex part of the newly evolved human brain. It may be hypothesized that as cortex brain states are more aligned to man-made intelligence handling and ‘logical’ (not emotional), these long term memories in cortical neural plexuses must emanate out of the prolonged, sustained and dominant experiences of a reality in societal-cultural milieus; emerging out of a conscious and very aware processes of ‘conflict resolution’. These memories may have the strength and stability of finely processed and accentuated experiences. The long term memories may be logically instituted after conscious conflict resolutions but it may also have alignment and association with emotional perceptions. It has to be accepted that probably, all logical or conflict-oriented perceptional memories are also chemically imprinted in synaptic plexuses as emotional registry. For example, if a person has a prolonged experience of a bad marriage and finally, he or she could get out the marriage, the impression shall last forever and probably stored in cortex layers as long term memory. However, this experience has its emotional aspect too and that too, a big and deep one. In later years, when the person shall reconsider a relationship, his or her emotional expressions towards the new person in their lives shall be affected by the experience of emotions of the past marriage crisis. The brain, as we have hypothesized, is designed to forget and forego unpleasant memories and experiences. Therefore, the emotional feel of the bad marriage shall diminish and wane out from limbic brain states. However, what may be retained as long term memory in cortical layers of higher brain is probably the non-emotional, logical and superordinate (generic) experience of the gist or totality of the crisis. If a person came out of the bad marriage in a poised and rewarding ways, the next venture into new relationship may be smooth. If not, there may be more troubles in next venture. Neuroscience experts have done enough experiments and simulations to unravel some very crucial aspects of how our memories work and are played out owing to what part of brain being involved. We are not going into the details here. It is however very interesting and fruitful knowledge everyone should have. This long term memory probably is there to effect phenotype changes in genetic imprint as these memories probably have the synaptic weight and volume. Science believes these changes are passed on to next generation as genetic information. Naturally, such long term memories, backed by strength and intensity of sustained experiences present a big and impacting ‘context’ for perceptions about a reality. It is difficult to pin point how these experiences are ‘processed’ into long term memories and how these memories impact brain’s value summation, or what we popularly know as decision-making finality. Some scientists believe that conscious and aware self is all about the higher frequency, at which the neurons fire as well as the larger size of the neural networks, when a conflict situation is resolved. Science believes, there is some sort of a threshold of neural processing activity, which is required for awareness and conscious sense of being or self to emerge. Science has been working on this novel idea called ‘Emergence’ to unravel the entity of consciousness. What we need to derive from this all, without going into details, is that such a threshold and emergence happens when there is a definitive position of conflict and ‘pain situation’, requiring long and complex thoughtfulness. This thoughtfulness may be high frequency neural firing and larger neural networks. However, we can surely hypothesize that as these experiences are sourced from and contextual to societal-cultural-political milieus and their populist and dominant perceptions, they as well as the memories they engender are likely to have conflicts and confusion, which are hallmarks of such milieus. This makes us accept a probability that contemporary human brain’s actual perceptional as well as aware and conscious decision-making processes are heavily contextual to the man-made and synthetic ‘logicality’ and not to the innate and emotional one. Most emotional and non-conflicting perceptions and decisions in fact escape the conscious layers of mind as probably, they are processed in low frequency neural firing and small neural networks. Scientists hypothesize that in the continuum, the subconscious process needs a certain level of threshold frequency and network strength to rise up to conscious levels. We do not need to go into it. The trouble however does not seem to end here. Scientific researches tell us that human brain is not as compartmentalized and segregated as we might popularly accept and the three