A more advanced way to collect and process external environmental stimuli is prediction. Our brains are not constantly reconstructing reality from scratch using our senses every moment. Instead, we compare the predictions that our brains have built with sensory information, and constantly update, refine, and correct the predictions. It can be said that the core function of the brain is prediction. The daily life of each of us is a miracle from the point of view of calculation. What time do we need to get up, what time do we leave, what kind of transportation do we take, and what should we prioritize at work? Perform high-intensity calculations. Why don't we feel that everyday life is a miracle? Because the brain has already predicted what to do in what situation based on previous memory, the brain does not allocate a lot of attention to the same situation as predicted, because attention is a consumable item that requires rest and energy intake can be supplemented (this has long been confirmed by scientific experiments). The brain's response to repetitive stimuli is diminished, an effect known as repetition inhibition. This is the neural basis of why we sometimes feel burnt out in our work, in our lives. If one day your life doesn't go the normal way the brain predicts, the brain needs to allocate more attention. For example, if you got up late today and missed the bus, then your brain will allocate attention and let you think about how to get to the company, which mode of transportation is better, etc. When you finally arrive at the company on time after all your hard work, You may feel more tired than usual because your sudden event takes more focus and energy into your brain. In order to refine predictions more easily and quickly, the brain concocts a "rational self" and composes all the events in memory into a story that represents the complex electrochemical reactions and hormone secretions that take place in the brain. For example, you didn’t get up on time to catch the bus because you watched TV dramas for too long last night, you were exhausted when you arrived at the company, and then you couldn’t concentrate during the meeting, and you were reprimanded by the leader for not paying attention during the meeting. This triggers your negative emotional feelings, and your negative emotional feelings cause the brain to release hormones that give all memories associated with negative emotional feelings a negative rating. The next time you want to stay up late to watch a TV series, this negative evaluation will be triggered, you will think about the unpleasant experience it caused, and then reconsider whether to take an early rest. We need to learn from negative emotional feelings, but the brain doesn't release all the details to our "rational self," which can lead to information overload. Our "rational selves" will make up a story that if we stay up late to watch TV, it will lead to morning Failure to catch the bus will affect work efficiency. With this simple story, your "rational self" doesn't need to know what's going on in your brain to learn lessons and refine predictions. Our "rational self" and the omnipotent interpreter in the left brain is a mechanism that simplifies the results of the myriad electrochemical reactions and hormone secretions in the brain, and they are like the headlines in our heads telling us that roughly what happened without going into the details of the various jobs in the brain. In order to make predictions easier and faster, the brain must not only make up stories, but also give meaning. Our brains subconsciously assign some meaning to every event, every object, every person. Animal brains can also assign different emotions or responses to different stimuli in the external environment, such as seeing food wanting to eat, seeing predators flee, and so on. The powerful human brain allows humans to have longer-term memories and also establish long-term associations between those memories, which can give different meanings to the experiences in these memories. These meanings can be positive, negative, or neutral. For example, if you missed the bus, if it is associated with negative emotions, it will have a negative meaning, such as being late for work and being reprimanded by the leader. If nothing special happens, it will be neutral. If you meet a friend you haven't seen for many years on the subway, have a good conversation and are not late, maybe the meaning of this event will be positive. Different meanings lead to different predictions and behaviors, so we naturally like to label people and things because it makes our predictions easier and faster and reduces the load on our brains. The mechanisms by which people make predictions have changed from ancient times to the present, ranging from looking at the palm of one's face to calculating the birth date, from horoscopes to XX-type personality. Most of the time, these prediction mechanisms are inaccurate. For example, people with rebellious bones in the back of their heads may not always rebel, men of a certain constellation may not necessarily be scumbags, and people with certain personality characteristics may not necessarily be perverted murderers. Since these prediction mechanisms are not very accurate, why do we keep inventing new prediction methods and enjoy it? Because these prediction mechanisms can reduce the load on our brains when making predictions, allowing our brains to operate in a lower carbon and environmentally friendly manner. Our brains just love shortcuts that make predictions easier, and whether they're accurate or not, some people will believe them. The powerful ability of the human brain to make predictions and labeling has helped humans to stand at the top of the food chain, but with the changes in the human living environment, this ability has also brought countless troubles to human beings. Our subconscious predictions and labels can cause us a lot of unnecessary emotional reactions and distress, and a lot of predictions will also have the opposite effect. Someone once did an experiment, there were two buttons of different colors, pressing one of the buttons had an 80% probability of falling food from the tube, and the other button had only a 20% probability. Monkeys and other animals kept pressing the button that had an 80 percent chance of delivering food, and children under the age of four did the same. However, children over the age of four are different from adults. They subconsciously predict the association and probability of each button and the food dropped, which leads to the probability of people getting the food is lower than 80%. There was an experiment where the experimenter told volunteers that they had a very realistic scar on their face (not actually, it was removed when they walked out of the dressing room, but the volunteers didn't know it) and asked them to report How you feel when you talk to others. Most of the volunteers reported that others noticed scars on their faces that didn't exist while they were talking. The volunteers predicted some of the facial expressions and movements of everyone they talked to as behaviors associated with scars that didn't exist. Each of us also spends a lot of time in our daily life to catch wind and shadows, leading to some unnecessary worries and negative emotions. For example, when someone frowns when talking to me, does he have an opinion on what I say? In fact, it may also be that he just drank too much coffee and felt a little uncomfortable. But can we stop this needless prediction? In my experience no, because this is the default working mode of our brain. Many Zen masters would say that the purpose of sitting in meditation is to get rid of the "signs" and to see everything with a more realistic perspective. The predictions, associations and labels that each of our brains generate by default are "phases", you can't get rid of them, they are "appearances", on the contrary, without any predictions, associations and labels to observe everything as it is is true" null". I don't know who can keep this "empty" state all the time, anyway I can't. I've tried to stop the brain's predictions, associations and labels, but to no avail, these predictions, associations and labels always pop up on their own. I stopped doing this stupid stuff later on, instead I practiced how to observe these predictions, associations and labels from a third-person perspective, so that these predictions, associations and labels did not trigger my emotional response, or observe that I was triggered. emotional response. Once you can prevent these predictions, associations and labels from triggering your emotional responses, or observe your own emotional responses, you can control the behaviors that emotional responses elicit. For example, when my son grabs my mouse while I'm at work, I subconsciously label it "naughty," which then triggers an emotional response that I want to reprimand him. but If I can become aware of this label and the emotions it evokes, I can get away from the "phase" and see it as just the curious and rebellious behavior of a three-year-old, and I can control my yelling at him. (Of course there are times when I can't control it, especially when I feel tired and have low concentration and control). The default working mode of our brain is to stand in the past and predict the future. A lot of people like to say "live in the moment", and I get the urge to laugh every time I hear someone say that (of course, as a polite person, I generally manage to control that urge, hehe ), I can only feel helpless because people are ignorant of their own brains. In fact, the default mode of each of us is to live in the future, unless you can keep the "empty" state all the time, anyway, I don't think many people can do it, most people who like to say "live in the present" are only for their own The brain lacks understanding.
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