Personal Philosophies on Intelligence and the Intentional Use of the Brain?

[IllusiveOwl]

I know the textbook definitions and school-taught theories on intelligence, but there is a kind of detachment in it, they barely bring up a person's autonomy. In standard science, the brain creates brain-activity, it's neuron form on its own and we as experiencing individuals are an artifact of the activity going on within. We have no choice, we are either intelligent, average, or stupid. Autistic people are just autistic and die that way, a schizophrenic is that way because his brain activity is wack. Mainstream science studies brain activity saying it is the source, that activity does not come from somewhere else and brain activity is the result of that.

I want to hear some of your theories, fringe theories, weird conspiracy theories, original theories, whatever you all think. Occultists ought to have interesting perspectives, right?

My perspective gives a radical level of control to the individual's Will who is aware of it and knows how to work it.

I think intelligence has to do with energy-presence, which manifests as brain-activity. It also has to do in part with nutrition, because food air and water give us energy, but I know that isn't all. I've read Psychologist's analyzing their own experiences in camps and there is a clear impact conditions have on people, that the overwhelming majority fold under bad ones and degrade, possibly permanently.

If the brain can access and use more energy, it can work more powerfully in the present moment. People who are "intelligent" in a certain way just know how to intuitively use energy in a certain indescribable way, like a streak of electricity intuitively finding the shortest way through a maze (its cool look it up.). Think about it next time you do what you're most gifted at. Imagine being able to have access to this kind of intuition in any endeavor at any needed time.

This could have something to do with certain families or communities who have this kind of festering "rot". A bad environment will not make you want to be present, so your brain activity lowers to protect itself. Do that over a long period of years and you may forget how to act when your environment isn't shit. Some people just arent very sensitive or present, it's like they're just kind of "set" that way for good (pun). I am speaking retrospectively as well by the way, I have escaped from and occasionally spend time in communities that are just... populated with the unchanging dead. People who haven't changed or grown at all in years.

The more energy you have in the moment, the more aware you are, the more you can register your senses, understand them more deeply, understand the context of the situation more deeply and comparing the reactions of people against who they are and what their reaction to the situation may be. The better you get at Seeing like this, the more profitable each situation will be for you, whether it's pressuring your manager into believing you are more useful than other employees, giving you more hours in nicer positions, to making your friends like you more and building more meaningful connections with family, to reasoning / guiding someone into a healthier state / mindset. It can be used for manipulative means or philanthropic means.

With awareness comes real decision-making. I see so many people going around aimlessly, slave to their impulses, going on vague unthought-out plans. At their worst they are clinical and unable to navigate any kinds of interractions. If you have energy, you can choose what you want and create your environment to generate that over time, knowing that plans take time to form and advancing your agenda moment-by-moment.

Acting with several motivations and perspectives at once takes a lot of energy to do as well. Or just functioning in the present while maintaining your objectives, dreams, and hopes in the background constantly so you act in accordance with those. Instead, people with low energy do stupid shit and get "lost" in interpersonal drama or media-drama. It isn't a young thing either, I have seen men in their 30's, 50's, 60's, and 80's just loop and loop mindlessly on interpersonal shit that serves just to eat up their time and resources. Don't even get me started on people turning their brain-activity off with media...

The more present you are, the more you enjoy something too. Do you ever notice how dull people get a dull enjoyment out of things? How average people can have chaotic or intense enjoyment, and intelligent people experience a kind of transcendental kind of pleasure at things?

I think it has to do with how much a person can control and manipulate their own neuroplasticity, sort of like build their own brains through mindful use.

To be good at something you just have to persist at it for a length of time, why would this not be the case for "playing" your own brain like an instrument? Or using it as a furnace to create what you desire?

 

[Robert Ramsay]

I believe that the mind is a kind of "software" running on a kind of "hardware".

Here is a link to what I believe to be one of the most important papers to understanding why we don't understand the brain:

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Basically, they setup an exact simulation of a hardware 6502 and then investigated it (while it was running a video game) in the same way as neuroscientists normally investigate the brain; by prodding the hardware.

It is impossible to understand the software purely by interacting with the hardware.

And this is for a relatively simple system that we understand every physical component of.

 

[jkeller293]

I know the textbook definitions and school-taught theories on intelligence, but there is a kind of detachment in it, they barely bring up a person's autonomy. In standard science, the brain creates brain-activity, it's neuron form on its own and we as experiencing individuals are an artifact of the activity going on within. We have no choice, we are either intelligent, average, or stupid. Autistic people are just autistic and die that way, a schizophrenic is that way because his brain activity is wack. Mainstream science studies brain activity saying it is the source, that activity does not come from somewhere else and brain activity is the result of that.

I want to hear some of your theories, fringe theories, weird conspiracy theories, original theories, whatever you all think. Occultists ought to have interesting perspectives, right?

My perspective gives a radical level of control to the individual's Will who is aware of it and knows how to work it.

I think intelligence has to do with energy-presence, which manifests as brain-activity. It also has to do in part with nutrition, because food air and water give us energy, but I know that isn't all. I've read Psychologist's analyzing their own experiences in camps and there is a clear impact conditions have on people, that the overwhelming majority fold under bad ones and degrade, possibly permanently.

If the brain can access and use more energy, it can work more powerfully in the present moment. People who are "intelligent" in a certain way just know how to intuitively use energy in a certain indescribable way, like a streak of electricity intuitively finding the shortest way through a maze (its cool look it up.). Think about it next time you do what you're most gifted at. Imagine being able to have access to this kind of intuition in any endeavor at any needed time.

This could have something to do with certain families or communities who have this kind of festering "rot". A bad environment will not make you want to be present, so your brain activity lowers to protect itself. Do that over a long period of years and you may forget how to act when your environment isn't shit. Some people just arent very sensitive or present, it's like they're just kind of "set" that way for good (pun). I am speaking retrospectively as well by the way, I have escaped from and occasionally spend time in communities that are just... populated with the unchanging dead. People who haven't changed or grown at all in years.

The more energy you have in the moment, the more aware you are, the more you can register your senses, understand them more deeply, understand the context of the situation more deeply and comparing the reactions of people against who they are and what their reaction to the situation may be. The better you get at Seeing like this, the more profitable each situation will be for you, whether it's pressuring your manager into believing you are more useful than other employees, giving you more hours in nicer positions, to making your friends like you more and building more meaningful connections with family, to reasoning / guiding someone into a healthier state / mindset. It can be used for manipulative means or philanthropic means.

With awareness comes real decision-making. I see so many people going around aimlessly, slave to their impulses, going on vague unthought-out plans. At their worst they are clinical and unable to navigate any kinds of interractions. If you have energy, you can choose what you want and create your environment to generate that over time, knowing that plans take time to form and advancing your agenda moment-by-moment.

Acting with several motivations and perspectives at once takes a lot of energy to do as well. Or just functioning in the present while maintaining your objectives, dreams, and hopes in the background constantly so you act in accordance with those. Instead, people with low energy do stupid shit and get "lost" in interpersonal drama or media-drama. It isn't a young thing either, I have seen men in their 30's, 50's, 60's, and 80's just loop and loop mindlessly on interpersonal shit that serves just to eat up their time and resources. Don't even get me started on people turning their brain-activity off with media...

The more present you are, the more you enjoy something too. Do you ever notice how dull people get a dull enjoyment out of things? How average people can have chaotic or intense enjoyment, and intelligent people experience a kind of transcendental kind of pleasure at things?

I think it has to do with how much a person can control and manipulate their own neuroplasticity, sort of like build their own brains through mindful use.

To be good at something you just have to persist at it for a length of time, why would this not be the case for "playing" your own brain like an instrument? Or using it as a furnace to create what you desire?

What you wrote was very well thought out and worth reading. Its not common to see this type of intelligence you have. You definitely opened my mind to alot of things which i have not pondered on.

I do have alot to say about intelligence and the mind. This actually is a subject which i have been obsessed on my entire life, but my approach is more on the philosophical end. When it comes to talking about specificity with the physical brain, i am ignorant on that subject so i won't talk about that part referencing parts of the brain like the "corpus callosum."

I will start with how i view the concept of mind itself and this would include my current viewpoint which i stand on (it is open to changing if im convinced enough). I currently view everything in existence under the umbrella of consciousness which implies that I see there only being 1 mind with the illusion of many, and that matter is also apart of mind. I seen the lllusion of many minds only being expressed in this illusion of seperation i.e duality. I also like to split the world into 2 parts which would be the subjective conscious awareness and the objective reality. Currently i see that the conscious awareness is completely subjucated to the reality it percieves. Of course i could be wrong here in my view since there is no real way for me to know if the conscious awareness is the prima materia of all, and that this conscious awareness may generate the reality as we know it.

Under this point of view i have, i guess i would say we are like containers of energy in this dualistic world. Personally im not completely sold to the idea of the brain being were consciousness is contained — but rather i see the entire body as the container. I could agree that the brain is a vital part, but the way i look at it is by meditating on the shape of a pyramid. What i mean by that is that i see consciousness being stored in different levels within the body. Of course the peak would be the head of the body.

Now i may get a bit confusing here since i have 2 major perspectives that i work with which are nonduality (as i see as true reality) and duality (as i see as the illusion of reality). My main one in nondual, but this has zero utility with interaction with the dualistic world I clearily live in — so I never use that when learning, but I do use it when i reflect on what i learn. So what i described to you in the paragraph above this one with what i think about the body is in the perspective of duality, but in the other perspective i completely do not see it at all like this.