The second important level is mental level and this is the level which deals with all the intellectual activities.
Mental level is the one which is primarily responsible for the scientific evolution of mankind. It is mental level which gives us the ability to look at things with curiosity, the curiosity to understand their working mechanisms, the urge to try and dig deep into their mechanisms and finally the ability to have such understanding and use it in future.
Hence through mental level, we learn the working principles of a number of things in nature and then we use those principles to understand as well as create things working on similar principles. It is mental level which made someone think that if fire is created by nature at random times; there must be some mechanism behind it. Hence this native might have started looking for the working principle of creating fire and through this journey fueled by his mental level; he might have ultimately discovered how to create fire as and when needed.
Similarly, someone might have noticed long back that when certain round type of objects like stones move on ground, it is easier for them to move, compared to the objects with other types of shapes. Mental level of this native might have made him interested in finding out the working principle behind the ease or difficulty which various objects experience while trying to move. This might have started a new mission for mental level and through this journey, concepts like friction might have been established and discoveries like that of wheel might have been accomplished.
The job of mental level is to try and understand more and more things as well as concepts and then use them to advantage. It is due to mental level that we have been able to create so much around us, that no other species has been able to create so far. This is because human beings have far more capable and bigger mental levels than all other species on earth, found so far. Though some other species may exhibit certain patterns of behaviors which suggest the presence of mental level in them, such expressions are limited.
This suggests that these species may have the presence of mental level in them, but it may be far less versatile than that of human beings. It means mental levels of these species may only have certain specific types of orientations which may help them understand certain specific types of things. These orientations may help them have knowledge related to certain specific types of things. However, due to the limited scope of their mental levels, they may not witness the expansion of this level on a scale as humans can.
This is why humans are considered as the most gifted species on earth as most other species don’t have mental levels as capable and versatile as humans have. The ability to rationalize and reach decisions on the basis of logics or reasons, especially when dealing with a situation for the first time is an orientation of mental level that rarely any other species on earth but humans possess. It means even the most intelligent species other than humans may not be able to decide what to do when they face a specific type of situation for the first time.
Hence the only way possible for them may be to experience such thing, memorize the outcomes and then use this preference as and when needed in future. For example, rats are trapped by luring them with a piece of cheese attached to a spring in a rat trap. The rats come for cheese and they’re trapped. It should be noted that this trap is an open type of trap and nothing is hidden. It means if a rat has the presence of a properly capable mental level, it can understand that the cheese is attached to a spring and as soon as it tries to pull on this piece of cheese, the spring will feel the pull and the trap will tighten around it.
The eyes of the rat see this trap but it still doesn’t understand a thing, which suggests the absence of a duly developed mental level. If this rat has a duly developed mental level, it is easy to understand that cheese is attached to a spring and the spring is going to get it into a trap if the cheese is pulled on. Therefore, a rat falls into this trap due to absence of duly developed mental level. It’s been happening to rats for hundreds of generations and they still don’t understand a thing about this trap. This confirms the same thing in an even more pronounced way.
Now imagine hanging a gold ornament with a spring in an open type of setup which shows that as soon as the spring experiences pressure beyond a point, it will trigger a dart or something like it and such dart is aimed in a way that it will hit the object trying to pull on this gold ornament. This is an imaginary trap for humans and as you understand, many of us are smart enough not to fall for it.
This is because we have duly capable mental levels which give us the ability to look into the working of things in a detailed way, in order to reach the root. Hence when a native with reasonable level of brain sees this gold ornament, he may find it attached to a spring or a wire. His eyes may follow this wire and in no time, he may find out that the wire is attached to a dart which will be shot if he pulls on the spring. The presence of duly capable mental level helps him understand this mechanism and he may even use it to his advantage.
Accordingly, he may first disconnect the dart from the spring; he may then take this gold ornament and move on. Let’s now try to understand the involvement of mental level behind this small act. Among many jobs, mental level handles the job of raising suspicions based on logics or so to say probabilities, especially when dealing with new situations. For example, when you see a gold ornament hanging on a wire, this is what starts happening inside your mental level.
You may start thinking that it is a gold ornament, which means it has been made by a human. It is hung by a wire, which means it has also been done by a human. Hence you understand that this gold ornament is not hanging here naturally and there is the involvement of a human in this act. When you reach this decision, your mental level warns you about something wrong or harmful. This is because through information stored on your unconscious mind, your mental level understands that gold is of high value to humans. Hence if someone has hung a piece of gold for other natives to take, such native may be looking for something even more valuable than this piece of gold.
This is the time to know that all those complex calculations of profit and loss take place on your mental level and the other levels don’t have much to do with these calculations, in most cases. Hence it is primarily the job of your mental level to assign material value to things and then compare the value of one thing with that of the other things, though pride (ego) is also involved in many cases. It is primarily due to mental level that we’ve established concepts like currency notes which help us assign and understand the values of a number of material things in relation to one another.
This means if you can buy six bananas for one dollar and you can buy two mangos for the same one dollar, your mental level gives you reasoning that mangos are three times more valuable than bananas. This is the job of the mental level, to try and understand the value of things with respect to other things. Another job of the mental level is to understand the things with higher material values and use them to advantage. It means your mental level tries to bring profits to you, based on the type and amount of information or data it possesses at a particular time.
As a result, if a stranger offers you a banana and asks for a mango that you have, in exchange for this banana, you mental level may tell you that you’ll face loss in this transaction. The brain generated by this level tells you that mangos are three times more valuable than bananas and hence you should be offered three bananas in exchange for one mango. As your brain supplies you with this information, you may refuse to exchange your mango with the banana that the other native may be offering.
This is how brain helps you achieve more in life, by assigning value to things and then making relative calculations based on those values. In any given situation, your brain informs you about the profit or loss you may face if you choose to engage in a particular type of activity, based on the information stored on your mind, related to such act. Hence you may refuse to exchange mango for banana.
It should be noted that your mental level works only on the basis of values and information fed into it and it doesn’t work on the basis of feelings, which is the job of your emotional level. For instance, if you have ten mangos, you see a stranger having a number of bananas and you feel like having a banana, this is what may happen. The feeling of having a banana doesn’t rise in your mental level and instead, it rises in your emotional level or so to say, it comes from your heart.
When it comes to emotional level, it doesn’t bother about the material value of things or natives and it assigns values to things and natives on different basis, which we’ll discuss later on. Hence when your heart feels like having a banana and the other native offers you a banana in exchange for a mango, a complex process involving your heart and brain may start inside you. Your brain may tell you that you should not accept this deal as you face loss. On the other hand, your heart may tell you that you should accept this deal because you want banana, the other native is offering it and this is all that matters.
Have you heard about the saying, ‘the heart wants what it wants’? This is exactly what may happen in this case as well as in many other such cases. Brain decides the value of things or natives, based on the already established material guidelines whereas heart decides the value of things or natives based on how strongly it wants them. This is why brain and emotions may almost never be in harmony with each other as the values they operate on are far different from each other. In simple terms, the language of brain is much different and sometimes even opposite to the language of heart.
Coming back to the example, your brain may start telling you that one banana for one mango means loss and you should get three bananas. Hence your brain may encourage you against this transaction. On the other hand, your heart may tell you that you want to have a banana and you can have it right now. What you offer in return is immaterial as long as you can offer it. Hence it motivates you to accept this deal and have this banana at the earliest. A battle of material value versus the emotional value of banana starts inside you and this battle is called the battle of your brain versus your heart.
A number of outcomes are possible here and let’s look into three of them. As this complex reaction or battle starts inside you, the resultant depends on your overall character or your net aura. Taking the first case, if your overall character has a far more developed mental level and less developed emotional level, your mental level may win this battle as it may win over your emotional level. If this is your character type, it means the relative material values of things and natives are far more important for you, compared to how you actually feel about those things or natives.
When it comes to assign value to things or natives, your mental level works on the basis of already assigned values, which may have been assigned by other natives called society, over a period of hundreds or even thousands of years. Hence all the concepts which differentiate between rich and poor, gold and silver, banana and mango; and many other such things or natives have been established by the brain and not by the heart.
Your heart on the other hand, assigns values to things and natives on individual basis and not on the basis of already established guidelines. It means your heart assigns value to a banana based on how much it wants this banana and not on the basis of the already assigned material value. Hence brain is more like a repetitive thing and heart is more like a fresh, on the spot and spontaneous thing. This is why you’ll find that natives with less developed emotional levels are sort of dry and a little too practical type of natives as they don’t have freshness and spontaneity in them.
If your overall character is strongly mental type, a strong sense of loss will be conveyed and you may refuse this deal, though your heart may keep crying for this banana. Looking at the need of your heart, your brain may suggest you to engage in bargaining with this native and this is what you may do. You may try to convince him with rational logics that one mango is equal to three bananas in terms of value and hence he should give you three bananas in exchange for one mango. If the other native agrees, your brain as well as your heart may both feel satisfied.
This is because your brain doesn’t have anything to do with banana or mango to start with. All it cares about is profit or loss in every transaction that you make. Hence if the overall deal works out well on the basis of profit and loss theory, your brain is satisfied. Talking about your heart, it doesn’t care about how you get this banana and all it cares for is that you do get this banana. Hence in this case, you may get three bananas after bargaining and this way, both your brain and heart are satisfied.
Looking at the second probability in the same case, you engage in bargaining and the other native refuses to bargain straight away. It means he says one banana for one mango or no deal. If this is the case, your brain will refuse this deal and as you’re controlled by your brain, this deal is doomed. Hence this deal doesn’t happen and now you have two different types of reactions related to these two levels.
Your brain is once again as happy as it was in the first case. This is because it got you a fair deal in the first case and it prevented you from facing a loss in the second case. Hence its job has been done equally well in both the cases and so it feels happy. Getting profit out of something or preventing loss through something; are two important things for your brain and if it achieves any one of these objectives, its job is done. Hence your brain feels happy in this case also.
Your heart on the other hand, starts protesting and crying out for banana. As your brain has dominance over your heart, the wish of your heart is rejected again and again. This is when you may feel that though you’ve rejected the offer, the offer is still taking place inside you again and again. It means that though the deal seems over on the surface, it is not over inside you. Your heart keeps asking for this banana and your brain keeps refusing.
As a result, you don’t get this banana and all you get is a regret generated by your heart that you wanted this banana and you couldn’t have it. This emotional regret may cause a conflict within you, the conflict between your heart and brain. This conflict as well as all other such conflicts which may rise from time to time; may affect your overall character and they may create some distortions in your character. We’ll discuss this topic in details, later on.
In the second case, suppose your character is dominated by your emotional level and not by your mental level, which means listening to your heart is more important for you, than listening to your brain. In this case, when you want to have a banana and the other native offers only one banana for one mango, you may not take much time and you may accept this deal. It may also be the case that the amount of brain that you have may still encourage you to bargain in order to get three bananas for one mango and you may even do so.
However, as you’re controlled by your heart, even the act of bargaining may be weak enough for the other native to observe that you really want a banana and you’ll not walk out of this deal. Remember when you go to a shop, you like an item a lot and this liking clearly shows on your face; it becomes difficult to bargain for that item? This is because the seller notices that you have deep liking for this item and you’ll definitely purchase it. Hence he doesn’t offer much reduction in price so that he may profit more.
On the other hand, when you look at an item in the same shop, you’re not much interested in it, which means you can afford to buy or not buy it and then you try to bargain, the result may be different. The seller may be more flexible in this case and you may get a better deal. This is because he observes that if not offered a good deal, you may not purchase this item and hence he offers you a better deal. Considering yet another probability, you look at another item in this shop, you’re partly interested in this item like in the second case and you ask for its price; this is what may happen.
If for some reason, the seller wants to get rid of this item, which means he wants to sell it at the earliest, he may offer you good discount even without asking. It means when you ask for its price, he may promptly tell you that the price is 50 dollars but you can have it for 40. When he does so, it means he wants to sell this item, which means he’ll settle for even less. You see, how much is going on inside you as well inside the seller, even when engaging in simple acts like buying or selling an item.
Therefore, even if you try to bargain, it may be obvious from your face and body language that you’ll settle for one banana in exchange for one mango as your heart is controlling the act of bargaining and not your brain. Hence this is what you may get and you may end up having one banana for one mango. In this situation, your heart may be completely satisfied as it wanted banana and it got banana; which is all it cares for. Your brain on the other hand may start giving you malefic vibes and these vibes may especially become significant once you finish eating this banana.
As your heart is dominant over your brain, the latter may not do much until you eat this banana and it may wait for that moment. This is because until you eat this banana, your heart is completely involved in this equation and as it is dominant, your brain may not be listened to. As soon as the banana is finished, your heart gets out of this equation because the only thing it wanted at this time was to have this banana, it has had this banana and hence its job is accomplished. So it gets out of the equation and it doesn’t care what happens next.
Imagine a long queue for anything like movie tickets. Suppose you have a friend behind the ticket counter, he offers you a ticket out of turn, you get this ticket and you’re happy. You may notice that a number of natives standing in the queue for long time may resent and they may even say something malefic about you as well as your friend because you’re both breaking the established set of beliefs for this queue. However, you may also remember that as soon as you get this ticket, you don’t care for what other natives say and you walk away, leaving them in the queue and letting them say whatever they want to say.
Likewise, when a politician wins an election, a number of natives may criticize the way he may have won such election as he may have used unfair means; but he doesn’t care. This is because he’s got what he wanted and hence he’s relaxed. It means that if there are two or more parties engaged in a situation, the party which gets everything it wants may almost never complain and in fact, it may not even want to get into an argument. It is only the party or parties which don’t get much or anything; which will engage in arguments and complaints.
Hence there are either achievements or complaints. This is why you may find that the winner of a competition generally doesn’t complain about anything because he’s got the best this competition has to offer. On the other hand, the ones who have not won may have a number of malefic things to say about the competition, the judges or even about the winner. Hence you either achieve or you complain; and both these things generally don’t happen together. It should be noted that even if you don’t achieve, you’ll complain only if you’re driven by pride (ego) and not if you’re driven by conscience; unless your complaints are genuine ones. We’ll discuss more about this topic, later on.
As your heart has got the banana it wanted, it gets out of the equation and only your brain is left now, to make complaints. It should be noted that as long as you don’t get this banana, both your heart and brain are competing inside you. In the queue for movie tickets, imagine a couple of natives trying to tell you that you should not bypass the queue and this happens before you get the tickets. If that happens, you may engage in a conflict as you want to get tickets at the earliest and they’re trying to stop you from doing so. Hence you may engage in a conflict or competition until your interest is taken care of.
However, as soon as your interest is taken care of, which means as soon as you get tickets, you may get out of this equation and you may not want to argue with these natives any longer. This is because the need to engage in argument in the first place was there because you wanted to get this ticket and this need died the moment your objective was achieved.
Hence as soon as you get the banana, the heart wins and it gets out of the competition; leaving only your brain to complain as the competition may not have been decided fairly; according to your brain. Accordingly, your brain may keep complaining that you did a bad thing by accepting one banana for one mango and you should have got three bananas or you should have walked out of this deal. As your brain is alone in this competition now, there’s no one to compete with it. As a result, whatever it says may not receive any opposition and this is what may cause an intellectual regret inside you. It should be noted that until you get this banana, each action of your brain is counteracted by your heart and hence; regret doesn’t form as a completion is there.
However, as you get this banana, your heart gets out of the equation and only your brain is playing now. As a result, there may be no opposition to whatever it says and hence its opinions may be marked on your unconscious mind. Since these opinions are malefic and they’re not counteracted by any other entity inside you, they are registered in the form of complaints or regrets. This is because in order for a real competition to take place, there should be at least two entities competing and a competition cannot happen if there is only one. Hence in the second case, you may once again have regrets though they’re mental regrets this time.
Have you noticed that all regrets are caused after you’ve done or not done something in a situation and they are not caused during those moments when you’re engaged in the act of deciding or doing something? This is because as long as you’re engaged, more than one entity is involved in competition and hence the regrets don’t form. As soon as you choose to go with one of these entities, such winning entity may get out of the competition and the losing entity may start making complaints of not being given a fair chance.
These complaints are called regrets. For instance, if you like a woman and you want to ask her out on a date; your heart and brain may engage in a competition. Suppose this woman is higher or much higher than you in social status, established standards of beauty or in something else. In this case, your brain when influenced by your pride (ego) may start scaring you that on a logical scale, you don’t stand a chance and hence you shouldn’t ask her out as she may very expected refuse and that too in an insulting manner. Your heart may supply its own reasons and it may encourage you to take a chance.
If you listen to your brain and you don’t go to this woman; your brain may get out of the competition as a winner and your heart may start complaining. It is interesting that even when you’ve left this venue or the woman has left; your heart may still keep complaining but your brain may not counteract now. This is because the event is over, your brain is the winner and hence it may not bother competing after the result. In this case, the complaints generated by your heart remain unchallenged and they register on our unconscious mind, in the form of an emotional regret.
This is why this regret has formed after you’ve decided not to go for this woman and not before that. As long as there’s a battle between any two entities; like your heart and brain in this case; regret doesn’t form as they’re both competing and not complaining. As soon as one of them wins, it may get out of the competition and the loser may start complaining instead of competing. These complaints are the ones which form regrets. Hence a competition doesn’t form regrets and it is the end result of a competition; which may form regrets, if such end result is not liked by a competing entity.
This is why an athlete participating in a race may not even think about initiating the process of forming regrets, until the competition is over. It happens because he still has a chance to win and hence all his energy is focused on availing this chance. As soon as the competition ends and he loses, regrets may start forming and these regrets may be of many types. For instance, he may start thinking that he didn’t sleep well; he didn’t practice much and/or any other such things; and these reasons may be registered as regrets on his unconscious mind. Hence as long as he’s engaged in this competition; he may not have any of these ideas and all these ideas may come after he’s lost.
Let’s now go back to the example where you’re trying to get banana or bananas in exchange for mango. In the third case, let’s say you’re a balanced mixture of intellectual as well as emotional abilities or to be precise, you have significant amount of conscience. In this case, your brain may tell you that one banana for one mango is not fair and you should get three bananas, which is fair according to the prevailing standards of cost comparison between banana and mango. However, your heart may tell you not to worry about the cost or value variable and get the banana at the earliest.
This case looks similar to the second case and so it is, but only this far as it is going to change from here on, due to the intervention of your conscience. In this case also, your brain and heart may try to strike a balance due to which you may once again start bargaining with the other native, but this time with a different mindset. In the first case, your brain was dominant and hence the bargaining was fueled by the motive that you’ll either get three bananas in exchange for one mango or you’ll not accept the deal.
However, in this case, you have an inner agreement due to the intervention of your conscience that you’ll try to get three bananas for one mango if possible. If the other native doesn’t agree, you’ll try to convince him for two bananas in exchange for one mango. If that also doesn’t happen, you’ll accept one banana for one mango. You see; the deal between your brain and heart is different now; as your conscience is mediating between them. In the present case, your heart has made it clear that it wants banana but at the same time, it can wait for your brain to do what it wants.
It means your heart and brain strike a deal through your conscience that the former will give latter proper time to get this banana as and how it finds fit. However, if the latter fails to get this banana in a way it wants, it’ll respect the wish of the former and it’ll get this banana at any cost available. It means your heart gives your brain complete freedom to do what it wants in order to get this banana with the only condition that it has to get this banana. Hence in this case, your brain starts bargaining with the other native and your heart looks at this whole process like a witness.
It is interesting to note that when you bargain in this case, your body language may be such that the other native may not be able to judge whether you’ll settle for one banana or not, contrary to the second case. This is because your heart was the one which controlled the act of bargaining in the second case whereas your brain is the one doing this thing in this case. Since your brain is smart enough at the art of bargaining and reasoning, the other native may not know your true feelings, though you may really want this banana.
As a result, though you’re fully interested in this banana like in the second case, the other native may not judge this interest of yours as there’s an agreement between your heart and brain due to which, your heart is staying out of this act of bargaining. Hence this operation is being carried out by your brain though it is being carried out for your heart. Accordingly, the goal is the same as that in the second case but the path to achieve that goal is different.
This reminds me of an interesting native who had this deal between his heart and brain. If he wanted to purchase mangos from a shop for the first time, he’d never ask for the price of mangos straight away. He’d first ask about the price of apples, then that of oranges, than that of bananas and then only he’d ask about the price of mangos. He applied this theory to many other spheres also like while trying to purchase a specific bouquet from an array of bouquets in a flower shop; and surprisingly, he got good results in most cases.
Once I asked him why he did so and he explained the reason which was something like this. As a general set of beliefs, most natives first enquire about the prices of the items they want the most, followed by the items which are second on their lists of priority and so on. Sellers know this fact and hence they’re convinced that the first item to be enquired about is most expected to be purchased. Accordingly, they tend to charge more for it as they know you’re very expected to buy it. For instance, the fruit seller in this case may quote you a relatively high price for apples as he thinks you want apples the most and so you’ll surely buy them.
By the time you go to mangos, he may not only get this idea that you may not buy mangos because you’re asking about them so late; but he may also think that you may not buy anything at all. This is because you keep asking about the price of one thing after another and you stop at none of them. This is an indicator that you may not be much interested in any fruit at all and hence you may or may not purchase any of them. Since his job is to sell as long he makes any amount of profit, he may offer you relatively less price for mangos in order to ensure that you do purchase something. Hence you’re expected to get the thing you really want at a better price, if your brain does this job for your heart. An interesting fact is that the seller may think that you’ve purchased mangos only because he offered a better price.
Likewise, when you go to a flower shop for the first time and you like a particular bouquet, ask about the price of three to four other bouquets before enquiring the price of this bouquet and you may once again get a better price. This happens because the seller may assume that you’re not much interested in the bouquet you really want; as you’re asking about it very late. The same theory can be applied to many other spheres when you’re dealing with someone for the first time or you deal with someone once in a blue moon. The sellers you visit often; have established relationships with you and they’ll very expected not charge you more as you’re a permanent customer. Hence this practice may not be needed there.
Coming back to the example, if your brain succeeds in getting three bananas in exchange for one mango, both your brain and heart are happy as both of them have accomplished what they wanted. If your brain succeeds in getting two bananas in exchange for one mango, your brain feels partly happy and your heart still feels completely happy. In the last outcome, if your brain succeeds in getting only one banana for one mango, your heart still feels the same happiness though your brain may only be partly happy.
This is because your brain visualized three bananas for one mango as the best bargain, two bananas for one mango as the second best bargain and one banana for one mango as the last option. Since it has only been able to achieve the minimum, your brain can’t feel duly happy in this case. However, it may still be somewhat happy due to the fact that it has tried its best and your heart has been kind enough to give it due time to engage in such effort. Therefore, your brain may not generate a mental regret in this case.
Your heart on the other hand has got nothing to do with the state of your brain and it only cares for the banana. As far as your heart goes; three bananas for one mango is equal to two bananas for one mango, which is again equal to one banana for one mango. This may sound absurd as this is against the sets of beliefs of mathematics. However, you should understand that mathematics is the language of brain and it is not the language of heart.
The heart simply doesn’t do calculations like this. The language of heart is qualitative and not quantitative whereas brain puts significant importance to quantity also. This is why there is an obvious contrast between the two of them as your heart doesn’t care for numbers and calculations and it only cares for feelings. In the language of heart, one can be equal to hundred and at times, one can even be greater than hundred. It means that for one specific thing or native, your heart may encourage you to leave hundred other things or natives, if needed. We’ll discuss it in details, later on.
This is why you’ll find that poets don’t seem to do justice to mathematics and even to science as both these subjects are ruled by brain whereas poets are ruled by heart. Hence they speak in the language of heart which is understood very well by emotional type of natives whereas it may not be understood at all by a strongly intellectual type. I mean how can your lover be equal to Moon? It simply can’t happen for an intellectual type but it is absolutely possible for an emotional type.
Hence you engage in bargaining in the third case also but things are different here. You are already resolved that you have to get this banana and everything else is secondary. However, as your brain is also strong, you try your best to get this banana in the way your brain wants. It should be noted that your brain is not interested in one or even three bananas and it is your heart which is interested in bananas to start with. Your brain is only interested in a smart deal in order to feel happy. Hence you get this banana for your heart and your try to get a smart deal for your brain.
Natives dominated by heart or brain, which means natives of the isolate type generally face problems in some spheres of their lives, depending on which of the two is dominant. Natives dominated by heart may enjoy things as well as relationships but they may not be able to collect much money, though they may certainly earn well. On the contrary, natives dominated by brain may enjoy material success and accumulation of wealth but they may not be able to duly enjoy life as well as have good relationships as they tend to ignore their hearts. Coming back to the example, you see how many probabilities are there, even when you want to exchange a mango for a banana.
Coming back one more step, let’s go to that gold ornament trap. Your brain assigns relative values to all material things and it compare those values as and when it has the need to reach a conclusion about which one of the items among a given number of items holds maximum value. Hence your brain knows that on this relative scale, gold holds significant value and accordingly, most natives won’t offer it free of cost. Your brain may then start relating other things to this situation and it may start building a theory.
It means your brain may break this situation down into pieces and it may try to understand each one of these pieces and it may finally try to understand the entire equation, based on the understanding of these pieces. One piece of this situation says that gold is expensive and most natives won’t offer it for free. Hence this gold may have been left here by mistake or there may be something intentional about this act.
When it comes to decide between these two facts, your brain looks at the second piece of information which says that this gold has not been dropped and it has been especially hung with the help of a wire. Hence your brain reaches a decision that this gold is not here by mistake and it is an intentional act committed by a human. The brain once again breaks this conclusion into two probabilities.
The first probability says the native who hung this gold here may not have bad intentions and the second one says he may have bad intentions. Third piece of information says that this gold ornament has been hung by a wire which goes back to a hidden type of setup, like into some bushes or to some tree bunches. Your brain guides you to follow this wire and as you do so, you come across the dart hidden at the other end of this wire in a way that as soon as you pull on the gold ornament with certain amount of force, the dart may be fired at you.
This way, you may unveil the mystery behind this gold ornament and you may take this gold ornament after removing the dart, if you want to take this gold ornament. This is how brain works. It breaks every piece of information provided by someone or by a situation into pieces and it considers various probabilities one by one. Out of them, it chooses one probability, it moves in that direction and whatever comes next on that path, it once again breaks it into pieces or probabilities. Brain keeps doing this until it has reached the final conclusion according to it or it has reached the root of the matter under consideration.
It is only due to the tendency of brain to break things down into smaller units that humans have found things even as small as electrons. Brain starts from a bigger unit like a compound. It then finds out various elements which constitute such compound. It then focuses on an element, it divides the element into pieces, it gets molecules, it further divides molecules and it gets atoms. Brain breaks down an atom also and it finds a nucleus, electrons, protons and neutrons. This way, brain starts from the biggest thing and it tries to reach the smallest unit possible in that thing so that it may understand such thing completely as well as in the deepest details possible.
Though an electron looks like the smallest particle of an element at this time, brain may find an even smaller particle if it happens to exist, over the coming years. This is because the job of brain is to keep breaking down things and situations into smaller units until it has reached the smallest unit. It will stop only when it knows for sure that it has reached the smallest unit that constitutes a thing or a situation.
As you can understand, most other species may not fall into traps which are easy to detect if there is the presence of even reasonable amount of brain in them. This suggests that they don’t have reasonably developed mental levels and only human beings possess developed mental levels among the species on earth. Hence most species fall into the traps which humans can easily decode and destroy. Though some of these species seem to possess some brain but it may not be sufficient to call them intellectual.
Himanshu Shangari