COMPETITION, COMPETITION EVERYWHERE, AND NOT AN INDEX (MEASUREMENT) TO BE FOUND.

COMPETITION, COMPETITION EVERYWHERE, AND NOT AN INDEX (MEASUREMENT) TO BE FOUND.

You see, ‘you’ as in what you perceive as the self, are continually presented with competitions from which you (we) select winners. In the case of voluntary action, if you conceive of it, it’s already pre-processed and you simply ‘let the greyhound out of the box’ to act.

In every human era we develop models. we are still working with the physical machine model of the brain, the electrical model of thought, the justificationary model in logic – but these are not how anything in nature or man operates. Instead, nature uses competition. And everything we do is not maintained against a MEASUREMENT but against COMPETING forces. This is one of the most important lessons I’m trying to teach you in the Course “Foundations”. There is no memory of things, but of the prediction of things. There is no plan of action, but competing plans of action. There is no BASELINE or prescription for a human being – other than survival and reproduction. Our thoughts are not linear but infinitely recursive with a slow forgetting curve that we perceive as ‘us’ (our conscious self), that is maintained as a continuous circuit in very evident and obvious areas of the brain.

–“basal ganglia primarily in action selection – in helping to decide which of several possible behaviors to execute at any given time. In more specific terms, the basal ganglia’s primary function is likely to control and regulate activities of the motor and premotor cortical areas so that voluntary movements can be performed smoothly. Experimental studies show that the basal ganglia exert an inhibitory influence on a number of motor systems, and that a release of this inhibition permits a motor system to become active. The “behavior switching” that takes place within the basal ganglia is influenced by signals from many parts of the brain, including the prefrontal cortex, which plays a key role in executive functions.”—