Perfect Operating System
I dream in human. And I observe everything that is around me. These observations get associated with my human dreams, and I make inferences off of this. When I dream, I choose, based off of what I see when I am awake, which information I will remember, which information I will associate with a previous experience, or even with a previous association. This is the basis for my knowledge system, that all associations made, all assumptions created, all information remembered, is all checked against my previous memories, and I do this when I sleep. This process involves a lot of information, but more importantly, it involves communication between the short term memory and the long term memory. This interaction is what we call dreams, and the experience of the process is what we call dreaming. It is only a guess, but it is possible that the reason dreams are so funny and difficult to remember is because they are the transitional information from short term memory to long term memory, they are an interaction between two different languages (or styles of coding), and this is why they may tend to be so unusual and difficult to remember (difficult to form associations with).
The underlying idea here is that there is a flow to how we store and process information, and that this flow is natural to all humans. I wanted to point this out so that it could be observed that we are all operating on the same operating system, and that is, the Human brain. Yes, the remarkable and ever so useful human brain. The important thing about the human brain is that it is one of the most abundant organisms for it’s kind (there are a lot of humans, and they all have a human brain). From this, we should be pleasantly comforted that there are so many other organisms that have the same thought machinery as we have. But still, although the structure of our thoughts may be similar, we are not all thinking the same things. How is it that even though we are all almost the same exact thing, we are all so different, and unharmonious in our thinking?
The point of this is not about how we think differently, or that we think differently. Instead, I want to ask why is it we think differently when our basic machinery is all the same. And of course the answer lies almost completely in culture, in society, ability to acquire resources, the multi-faceted environment, and probably a lot of other things. So how about this, we should consider more often, at least to ourselves, that the people around us are all thinking in the same structure as you, they all have similar mental experiences (and everything is a mental experiences), and although there thoughts are not the same, they are the only individuals that are familiar with the indefinable experience of thinking in human.
We often times get so used to our own thinking system (the way our thoughts work together), that we forget the universe does not work the way we think. The universe does not work in human. But we have our own way of experiencing the universe, and this experience is all we know about the universe. The universe, our world, our experiences, they are all sensations, we take these sensations and we create our concept of our environment (and eventually of our existence). Because our brains operate uniquely, it is a fair chance that not all animals with any thought power are constructing the same world picture that we have. And it is because of this that we really should value our fellow man more, in that they too have the same rare and unique sensations of the universe as you do.
A. Dempsey 2006
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