The Brain, A Decoded Enigma

by Dorin Teodor Moisa

Knowledge is associated with the facility to predict the evolution of the external reality based on a structure of harmonic/logic models. This structure was made by a large number of interactions with many sections of the external reality and so it already generated a large number of good predictions. This means that the only guarantee of the correctness of the knowledge is the confidence in that structure of models. This issue will be developed in details later in the book.

The consciousness is the facility to make and operate a model, associated with the external reality, where the person itself is an element of that model. When such a model is activated, it will also find the position of the person in the model and so it will predict the position of the person in the external reality. This issue will also be developed in detail in another part of the book.

We will now develop some issues associated with the term "knowledge". We already defined knowledge as the capacity to predict in a correct way the evolution of the external reality.

Here we use the term "correct". Let's see what it means. This term has two definitions. One situation is when a model makes a prediction and the prediction is compared with IR. If the prediction meets IR, then the prediction is "correct". Unfortunately, there are very few situations when the comparison between prediction and IR is possible.

For instance, building a bridge. A problem is, for instance, if the bridge will be stable or not in case of an earthquake. Here we need a guarantee that the bridge is properly built and there is no possibility to verify this based on IR.

The second definition of the term "correct" is: the brain will consider as "correct" any prediction based on a harmonic/logic structure of models. To be harmonic, the structure was already verified, based on IR in many other situations. So, the only guarantee of a "correct" prediction is the confidence in that structure of models.

MDT is associated with the basic hardware functions of the brain. Once we described the hardware structure, everything what the MDT predicts is based on what the hardware is able to do. What MDT says about knowledge is not another theory on knowledge but what the hardware is able to do.

Any experiment is based on a model. That model tells us what we are doing and the same model tells us what we get and what we see. Any model that makes the experiment just improves itself. An improved model will make better predictions and that is all. There is no guarantee associated with the knowledge except the confidence in our own structure of models.

Let's see another aspect. We saw that any experiment is based on a model. The model tells us what we did and what we get and see. If there are many persons who participate in an experiment, everyone will make his/her own model based on his/her own structure of models. What everyone gets and sees depends on one's own structure of models.

Example: up to around year 1500 everybody knew that the Earth was the center of the Universe. This idea was supported by direct observation of the sky but also by a powerful structure of models. So, in that period, the astronomers were able to calculate Sun and Moon eclipses, understand and calculate many parameters associated with the movement of the Moon, Sun and stars. Even the Holy Book supported this idea, at least in an implicit way. In that period, the idea that Earth is the center of the Universe was correct.