Don’t sensations become percepts after they’re conceptually *processed for memory storage for reason?
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Sensation is sensory input received by the senses. For example, someone touches your arm and activates sensory neurons in your arm that creates sensory input. Perception would be “feeling” that touch. Nothing more. Cognition would be processing it. whether it be storing it into memory, interpretting what took place, etc.
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“Our two minds …. One is an act of the emotional
mind, the other of the rational mind. In a very
real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and
one that feels” (Daniel Goleman, Emotional
Intelligence, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 1996,
page 8). This rational mind is also called the
faculty of logic and reason. It processes
syntactic and semantic information to integrate
them to a person’s world view.
Sensations are processed by the emotional mind. It
provides differentiation of the cognition
information. Mathematics says that differentiation
and integration are of opposite nature.
The Hindu Upanishads say that these two minds are
opposite in nature. Modern psychologist also have
observed it, but they are not very sure about it:
“At the same time, reason sometimes clearly seems
to come into conflict with some desires (even
while not being in conflict with others) giving us
the impression that reason is separate from
emotion”.
The Upanishads call the emotional component of
mind as Chitta and the rational component of mind
as Manas. In general, women excel in Chitta and
men excel in Manas. Men have the ability to
transcend the limitations of Manas and activate
the higher component of mind Buddhi (intellect or
wisdom) which deals with higher knowledge. Very
few women can activate this component.
Carl Jung distinguished persons according to four
primary functions of mind – thinking, feeling,
sensation, and intuition – one or more of which
predominated in any given person. According to
ancient Hindu scriptures, the various components
(or faculties) of mind are:
(1) Ahamkaara (Self-sense): The need that “I have
to survive” originates here. It is common to all
living beings including the one celled. It deals
with the self-protection, self-defense or
Fight-or-Flight mechanism needed for survival of
the body.
(2) Chitta (Emotion): Sub-conscious instincts like
“I am hungry”, “I am thirsty”, and “I have to
sleep” originate here. Sexual instincts for
continuation of the spieces are connected with it.
Chitta is the component connected with intuition
and emotion. Modern psychologists say that
passions have the same limitations of senses as
they tend toward immediate emotional discharge.
Chitta is the quick acting component of the mind
which can be termed as leftist or negative
thinking part. It is called negative because some
psychologists felt that it separates the received
information into pieces, contains unintentional
and contradictory ideas, and lacks internal
organisation, inner consistency, and concrete
solutions. On the contrary, some philosophers
thought that this is the ‘idealistic view’ of
thinking about a problem. Chitta is connected with
instincts, urges, impulses, desires, imagination,
sentiments, passions, caring, pleasure,
exploration, unconventional ideas, moods, insight,
superstitions, immodesty, analysis of details,
concern about particular features, capacity to
find novel relationships, unrestrained expressions
connected with body or mind, molding of past
experiences into new constellations of meanings,
creation of artistic, poetic and musical works and
the like. Seeing a good work of painting or
listening to music of one’s liking will set waves
of emotion in Chitta. It helps us to imagine
things in new ways. It is known that lighter side
of life like fun may contain silly and ridiculous
situations. An artist is said to go to the
extremes to divorce himself from environmental
constraints.
(3) Manas (Reason): It deals with rational
thinking, knowing, practical possibilities and
alternatives. Conscious thoughts of will power
like “I have to do this”, “I do not want to do
this”, “I can not tolerate this” originate here.
Manas is the component connected with reason. It
is a slow acting component of the mind. We know
that most of the people are quick to act on
desires, but are slow to learn something
consciously. The working of Manas can be termed as
the rightist or positive thinking part. On the
contrary, some philosophers say that such a method
based on reason alone is a ‘mechanistic view’ of
thinking about a problem. Manas is the conscious
component of mind which grasps of the essentials,
tries to solve the problem using simplification,
and provides an abstract model. Manas means
reason, logic, synthesis, and rationality. The
nature of Manas changes with each and every
perception and it’s understanding. Manas helps a
person to speak correctly and to do complex
mathematical calculations. Manas is connected with
conscious thoughts like doubting, examination,
foresight, interpretation, common sense, general
structures, coherent ideas, holistic approach,
planning, tactics, strategies, ambition, jealousy,
sacrifice, cunning, morality, disciplined
systematic thinking, enveloping thoughts, craving
to do some physical work, duty-mindedness,
synthesis, combining, ethics, and the like.
(4) Buddhi (Intellect): Deliberation of the pros
and cons (or good and bad) using discrimination to
determine on a subject is it’s chief
characteristic. It deals with higher knowledge,
wisdom and philosophy.
The pulse rate in a new born baby is about 140
beats per minute. This pulse rate gradually
reduces during the Koumaaram period and settles
down to it’s stable value of 76 beats per minute
after the age of 24 years. Different sects in the
world have different criteria to declare a person
to become a youth. The Indian tradition says that
a person becomes a youth on his 25th birth day,
taking the stable heat beat value into
consideration.
Modern psychologists treat the period from 35 to
40 years as middle-age crisis period. Most of the
people may not feel much during this period.
However for those few persons who experience its
full intensity, it will be like a mini-death. In
English, ‘flourit’ means the age of dawning of
wisdom; it also means the age of 40. (See a
multi-volume dictionary in a library). Energy in
the body will be at its highest during the youth
period from 25 to 40 years of age. Generally,
Buddhi (intellect) starts funtcioning after the
age of 40 years, but it may take longer for
others. You can not blame a teenager or a youth
for not having it. It is a general observation
that only person aged beyond 40 years are called
intellectuals.
History knows that major inventions or innovations
in science were made by people after the age of
24, and major achievement in philosophy, history
or literature after the age of 40.
“The period in the human lifespan in which full
physical and intellectual maturity have been
attained. Adulthood is commonly thought of as
beginning at age 20 or 21 years. Middle age,
commencing at about 40 years, is followed by old
age at about 60 years.”
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