There is this beautiful commonality in ancient wisdom as well as modern science. Both emphasize on understanding of self, the looking within, in the layers of consciousness, to understand everything else outside.
Albert Einstein said –
‘No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it’.
What Einstein talks about consciousness and what ancient wisdom also did; are the same. Modern scientists have made such a body of discoveries about facts, which have enabled us to understand the Consciousness – the self that we are, in a way very empowering way.
This leads us to one mechanism of our bodies, which is the central warehouse of the 3Cs. This is some trillionaire we not only have to understand but also have to be in perfect control of for life-living wellness as well as personal excellence. Ancient wisdom looked for understanding this trillionaire but they only had a partial and confused understanding as they could not know the facts about the working of this mystical genius. Only modern scientists could be successful in unravelling the myth about this Tumultuous Trillionaire.
Yes, we are talking about the mystical marvels of our magical brains. This we know as the Tumultuous Trillionaire. First time in the history of humanity, we are in a position to see things from a Level of Consciousness, which was unavailable since thousands of years of our journeys, battling with so many crucial questions of life. As Einstein said, we have had so many questions about ourselves and the world we lived but answers were either not coming or they were just a manipulation of human ingenuity to fill in gaps with something smart.
Lewis Thomas said, ‘Only two centuries ago, we could explain everything about everything, out of pure reason, and now most of that elaborate and harmonious structure has come apart before our eyes. We are dumb..... We have discovered how to ask important questions, and now we really do need, as an urgent matter, some answers. We now know that we cannot do this any longer by searching our minds, for there is not enough there to search, nor can we find the truth by guessing at it or by making up stories for ourselves. We cannot stop where we are, stuck with today's level of understanding, nor can we go back. I do not see that we have any real choice in this, for I can see only the one way ahead. We need science, more and better science, not for its technology, not for leisure, not even for health and longevity, but for the hope of wisdom which our kind of culture must acquire for its survival.’
Now that modern science has made us know so much about how our brains work, humanity has landed on such a Level of Consciousness, which is surely much higher and qualitatively different from what we had in the past. This new consciousness level, which we have managed because of our scientific understanding of our brains, has almost all answers and they are the true ones. As we understand the brain mechanism and its functional mystery, we are looking at answers of age-old problems with new knowledge of the 3Cs – Consciousness, Cognition and Causality. The knowledge of brain has engendered the new wisdom of consciousness, cognition and causality, which has many true answers and right perspectives of possible true answers.
Why we call this brain a tumultuous trillionaire?
Knowing in detail about our brains makes this nomenclature justified. The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. It produces our every thought, action, memory, feeling and experience of the world. This jelly-like mass of tissue, weighing in at around 1.4 kilograms, contains a staggering one hundred billion nerve cells, or neurons. Add to it the huge numbers of connections each neuron makes and this brain stands out as the mystically marvellous Trillionaire.
The complexity of the connectivity between the nerve cells is mind-boggling. Each neuron can make contact with thousands or even tens of thousands of others, via tiny structures called synapses. Our brains form a million new connections for every second of our lives. It is in these changing connections that memories are stored, habits learned and personalities shaped, by reinforcing certain patterns of brain activity, and losing others.
Usually, when we talk about brain, we speak of the grey matter. The brain however also contains white matter. The grey matter is the cell bodies of the neurons, while the white matter is the branching network of thread-like tendrils - called dendrites and axons - that spread out from the cell bodies to connect to other neurons.
Interestingly, men have seven times more grey matters compared to women whereas; women have nine times more white matters compared to men. This suggests, women make more meaningful connects with their milieus and have their wellness dependent more on how their white matter works. We always believed women are mysteries but as we know about the brain and how its structures and functions create the different dimensions of the 3Cs – consciousness, cognition and causality; nothing remains mysterious. We know them and now we have not the smart answers but the right answers.
Brain structure is shaped partly by genes, but largely by experience. That means, for most of us, our ambient milieus, from where we learn most of things, which we imbibe as culture, make us what we are. That is why we say, consciousness is localized. Much of our cognitions too depend on our experiences, which our localized consciousness engenders.
Now, it is also important to know, why we call this trillionaire a tumultuous one. Do we know from our experiences that most billionaires of our times are tumultuous! Anyway, we cannot say about others but we for sure know this is true about our trillionaire.
Though we have discovered an enormous amount about the brain, huge and crucial mysteries remain. One of the most important is how does the brain produces our conscious experiences? However, things are on the right path. The vast majority of the brain's activity is subconscious. But our conscious thoughts, sensations and perceptions - what define us as humans - cannot yet be explained in terms of brain activity.
The first thing to realize about the brain is that, unlike an organ such as the heart or liver, it is not a single organ with a single function. It is instead an organ of many thousands of interlocking functions. These micro-functions developed during the millions years of evolution along the same game plan as the body itself. If features were not successful, they were discarded. As features were found to enhance survival, they became permanent residents. The human body is a giant cooperative consisting of billions of cooperating cells. The human nervous system, likewise, is constructed of many thousands of cooperating functions.
The human brain, then, is a cooperative composed of perhaps thousands of individual reactive decision mechanisms, each with its own memory, interconnection with all others, and judgment. The voting of these mechanisms is so fast and so in harmony that we perceive the entire system as being the thought of one mechanism, which, in effect, the overall system becomes.
As we use our minds, it is obvious to us that we are one. There is no hint that we are actually many, in fact a great many, and that our consciousness is the summation of these entities in the closest possible cooperation. Our self, our consciousness is composed of two thinking mechanisms, so totally interconnected that it appears to us to be one. Indeed, it functions as one.
This notion of our brains as a Tumultuous Trillionaire, is a very powerful metaphor for we all to accept. The two words are indicative of how our brain is one hugely complex mechanism and that is a major reason as why things can never be easy for us on this earth as we live our lives. This brain is the source of all our joys as well as another 3Cs – Chaos, conflicts and confusion. However, when we understand the mechanism of our brain and how it affects our consciousness, cognition and causalities, we surely are well off understanding our troubles and finding right solutions.
The tumult associated with brain emanates out of its long evolution. Brain not being a singular organ, its complex electrochemical functioning and so many of its weird ways, which evolution’s stupid engineering created, makes it factory of manufactured troubles. When we see so many attitude crises, personality troubles, relationship issues, mind-body control crises, we all know, there are things related with our brains. However, knowing them stands us in good stead.
As Einstein said, not knowing about certain realism creates a layer of consciousness, which manufactures troubles and problems for most of us. Knowing the same realism and its multidimensional mechanism empowers us and lands us on a higher platform of consciousness, which can then design and devise solutions.
Understanding about this tumultuous trillionaire is the consciousness level, which Einstein talked of, where solutions are engendered. It has to be embraced with learned and practiced humility of compassionate acceptance that in most moments of our life, we are mostly a function of our subconscious selves – a state or layer of consciousness, where most actions and behaviours are auto-mode processing. It is an action-reaction mechanism our brain is designed for. However, the same brain has also evolved to accept higher values and conscious choices, often overriding the auto-mode instinctive life-living choices. This conscious layer is our solution providing genius. The subconscious mind is just responding and therefore leaving loads of fragmented thoughts. This splits us and lands us in chaos and conflicts. The higher consciousness is a mind positioning, which rises above drift and flux choices and streamlines all thoughts in a fruitful linearity.
This symmetrical thought processing is a layer of consciousness Einstein speaks of as solution provider. We all have to attain it. This is true success for us. And this success comes when we tame The Tumultuous Trillionaire.
That is why it has been my humble insistence that humanity in 21st century must discard all other partial and lopsided perspectives and ideas about we, our lives and connect we had with the outside world. We must unlearn the old and obsolete notions of consciousness, cognition and causality and accept the new, holistic and singularly objective wisdom, which modern scientific knowledge makes available for us.
Everything starts and ends with our brains, our mind consciousness. This Tumultuous Trillionaire, we have within all of us, is one huge facilitator of wisdom and lasting joys and peace. However, by design and evolution, it is oriented for tumult and chaos. From ancient people, 3000 years back to modern scientists, all wise people have been warning us to know this Tumultuous Trillionaire well and then use the energy of our higher consciousness to have perfect control of this mystically marvellous Tumultuous Trillionaire.
Scientists have been warning us that all intelligent races finally become extinct and we as a race have attained this critical intelligence. This suggests, we have evolved a brain, which has engendered such a consciousness, which is too smart, too ingenious and too arbitrary to let us live settled and smooth lives. See the collective troubles of humanity and anyone can see how our collective intelligence has pushed us to the brink of self-destruction and complete annihilation. This Tumultuous Trillionaire is out and at its capriciously randomized worst, auguring disaster for humanity. Personal lives too are being made a poor slave of this Tumultuous Trillionaire.
Understanding mind, a notional conscious and rational entity of brain reveals how we live in a world contrary to our age-old beliefs and ideas. We buoy up and down in the vast ocean of sub-consciousness, only occasionally surfacing above onto the atmosphere of consciousness. Most of our personal troubles are created in our subconscious self. We know little about them, are very poorly aware about them and have little control over them. This is the level of consciousness; Einstein talked about as the problem creator domain. As we understand our mind consciousness, its mechanism and functioning, we empower our consciousness to be in better control of our hugely vast subconscious domain. This empowered consciousness is the level of solutions.
This is time we tame this Tumultuous Trillionaire. This is time we know the stupid and make it shed its randomized and chaotic ways. It is time, we take a firm grip on our destinies by knowing about brain mechanism and how it engenders for us the critical realism of the 3Cs – Consciousness, Cognition and Causality.
As we get to know them, we are in full and conscious control of our mind consciousness, which brain creates for us. As we tame this Tumultuous Trillionaire, we shape our destinies, the way we wish.
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