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My
Biological Navigation System I have a brain, as do all living
creatures. My brain’s job is to guide me to my goal, whatever that is.* In other words, my brain is a navigation
system. And my navigation system
is a blind.** Based on its initial
default programming and its customized program adaptations + acquired data
and current data inputs it computes and decides the probable ‘best’ next step
towards my goal. ‘Best’ means better for survival (i.e. my actual and
ultimate goal) in the current (or any future imagined) situation. In short,
my brain serves as a Biological Navigation System (short: Bio-Nav), pretty much like the Sat-Nav in your car or
private jet. When I was born
my brain, that is to say, my biological navigation system (or Bio-Nav) was fully on
auto-pilot, i.e. on default settings. Later on I learnt to use my Bio-Nav
semi-automatically. That means I could consciously select (anticipate,
virtually) some actual goals (like a particular job or mate or beer) and
consciously navigate towards them. My Bio-Nav’s (i.e. my brain’s) job is to get me to
my basic goal. My basic goal is survival. Because my basic goal is achieved
within a particular, secondary (meaning everyday) situation, and of which
there are an unpredictable zillion, and since the specific data of that
situation are not given, my Bio-Nav’s
basic
response must be blind/blank. Being blind/blank but with the capability of
learning (from hindsight), my Bio-Nav
can
eventually deal perfectly with most (everyday) situations. Just like a blind
man learning how and where to bump along, so my Bio-Nav (i.e. my piloting (i.e. Guide &
Control) function) acquires seeming sight (a meaningful position, thereafter
a path) by means of data derived from contact and which it stores and arranges
as memory. My Bio-Nav’s basic, fully automatic job is to ensure
my survival, that is to say, to make me a winner (i.e. the ‘fittest’, yet
actually merely ‘fitter’) in every (of n situations I) encounter. On the
basis of the data available to it my Bio-Nav
automatically
decides (i.e. computes) whether I’ve won or lost the encounter. It then
signals ‘win’ (meaning a survival capacity increase) with happiness (or
elation) and ‘lose’ (i.e. a survival capacity decrease) with unhappiness (or
depression). Fundamentally
my Bio-Nav (i.e. brain) is a blind automatic virtual data shuffling
operation. Being blind and reactive (like all computers) it neither
understands nor judges the data it accepts and shuffles. That being so I or
others, such as parents, politicians or priests, can deliberately (i.e.
intentionally or unintentionally) feed it true or false or indeed fake data
(as in a movie), or tweak its data acquisition and decision making
programming, thereby tricking its win-lose decision making function and so
manipulating my happiness and unhappiness responses. See my book: ‘How
to make and fake happiness’ *… Currently there are 7.500,000,000 alive on the planet + a zillion
other living creatures. They all have pretty much the same (species related)
brains. All 7.5 billion humans must survive in not just 7.5 billion life
situations but in daily, indeed hourly multiples thereof. In short, all of
them are proceeding to different actual life goals in order to complete the
same basic operation, namely to survive. Only a (situation) blind (meaning
almost fully open) navigation system can perform that job successfully,
whereby the systems gains sight by means of discrete, step-by-step contact
(i.e. like the blind man with his walking stick). **… Because my brain is blind (i.e. having
no local direction or goal) it can guide me to any goal and by so doing
perform its default operation, namely ensuring (i.e. increasing) my survival.
In other words, I (like all other 7.5 billion humans) operate like a
submarine 5 miles down in a dark ocean and can’t see a thing. My external
covering, i.e. skin is packed with data sensors whose job it is to gather
data (i.e. by means of contact = reality testing), thereby to see, and so
acquire my position/situation prior to plotting my course. Given my current
position (i.e. as data-flow, hence my current (and true) reality and which
includes my survival chances) my brain’s job is to compute the best possible
next best step (on my path towards survival now and propagation in the
future). But the next best step to where? Well, not to a place or state
(which are but momentary orientation stops) but to
increased survival.
In
short, the submarine’s (i.e. my own) ultimate goal is increased survival in
each and every situation and which is achieved by self-adapting to become a
winner (or survivor) in every actual situation (computed and beneficially
iconised virtually as a form). ©2021 by Victor
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