This Month's Article...

Well, here is my second 'published' article. Its was really the 'starting' one, but, well you will see...

The Human Computer…

Last month, my first article entitled “The Thought Police” actually started out as a response to some comments made in WebWhispers from people that were in the process of locking themselves in their own little prisons, by their fear and worry. Pat caught my response, and after some discussion, we ended up turning my little rant into a longer monthly series of observations and perspectives on dealing with life and all the little joys, problems and opportunities it offers…

But, the first part of this process is not really the ‘policing,’ or management, of your thoughts. You must first consider how the human mind works and how it controls all that you do - how those thoughts are created, what happens to them, and how they are used to manage every daily moment and event.

I am not a doctor, nor do I hold any advanced degrees, or credentials, that legally entitle me to teach any of these concepts – so as the disclaimer, er headline, reads “Worth Every Penny You Paid for It – And More”.

I am a student of me first, and then life, and how it all works. I have spent over 30 years in the computer industry, and about 45 of my 60 years working on trying to figure out how I work, and how to ‘understand’ and ‘manage’ me and all my challenges.

Back when I first started learning about computers, they didn’t make any sense to me. Then, at some point, like a light turning on, I understood them and it all became clear to me. At the same time in my life, I was going through all sorts of personal growth oriented and discovery exploration. As I started learning how to manage, or program, computers to do the things I wanted them to do, I started realizing how much the logic and basic concepts of how they worked, was also how I worked.

I ended up realizing that the designers and creators of the ‘modern’ computer were actually emulating themselves, how they thought, and their own logic processes in their designs and mechanical creations.

I can hear the “Skreech – this is way too much for me…” now, but you have already come this far, so read a little further first before you start tearing out this ‘page’ from your opportunities in life. You don’t have to be a computer expert to understand these concepts, or even know how they work. But, now that lots of folks have a basic understanding of computers, and how they work, it provides an opportunity to use that knowledge to understand ourselves, or them, better – sort of a full circle of understanding, if you will…

In the first article, ‘The Thought Police’, I went into one aspect of how to manage this wonderful tool, but didn’t really get into how it all works or provide enough information to fully understand it all. To get better use and control out of it, you really need to know more about it and how it functions. This article will attempt to provide that understanding, so we can learn more about how to use it to help us deal with the challenges of daily life.

The Human Computer you have between your ears, has more power and capability than the largest super computer that exists today, or will for many years or decades to come. I can hear the “There he goes again…” thoughts again - Well, hear me out…

If I say the word ‘Corvette’ (but any other term or concept will do), by the instant you have read that word, your ‘Human Computer’ has already scanned every moment in your life, for every reference to that word/concept, and all related associations of that word/concept to you, has loaded all the good stuff into the ‘Good’ bucket, and all the bad stuff into the ‘Bad’ bucket on that Human Computer balance scale we talked about in the first article, and has provided you with an answer of whether that is good or bad for you. And, being a balance scale, the answers are weighted from really bad to really good based on the volume of each bucket’s contents. I defy any computer that exist, or is even being contemplated today, to do that with that much data. So, now you ask, how much data are we talking about- right?

When I said ‘scanned every moment of your life’ I am referring to every aspect of every moment – every smell, sight, feeling, thought, touch, sound, etc., etc. I am not sure how much storage a smell or feeling or touch, or whatever take in terms of the amount of storage, but in today’s terms, a single moment could potentially fill up a very large hard disk – and think of how many ‘moment’s’ you have been through in your life. And, if you did have all that data, how would you ever process it?

Consider going into a library and doing that research work on that one word – through all the books in the library – and that is just the simple basic textual part of the task your mind goes through in a fraction of a second – thousands of times a day… How many times is the word just printed in all those books, how would you find them all, and what about all the events and concepts it was involved in to be considered as being good or bad for only you?

I am going through this just to give you a peek at the concept of how large and powerful YOUR Human Computer is, and what capabilities it can provide when used and understood correctly.

Well, now we can begin pondering what to do with this awesome beast of a ‘computer’ we have at our beckon call… It is already pre-loaded with every aspect of our unique life experience and a LOT more, and is ready to be used at any moment. And, it will provide the correct answer to you every time it is used. It will never lie to you. Based upon the information it has stored in its memory, it will answer every question or query you give it - accurately and correctly. The key is how to use it correctly to get accurate results.

So, if you have a brain between your ears – just a little humor there – you are probably thinking, ‘Wow, and so what now?’

Well, the usual ‘operator’ of your computer is what is called your consciousness, or what you consider to be YOU - your ‘me’ or ‘I’, if you will. It processes all the moments of your life as they occur. It deals in concepts and thoughts – “What should I do now?”, “How would I do this?”, “What color do I want?”, “How long will that take?”, “Do they have those shoes in my size?”, stuff like that… And, it is constantly using your computer, in the background, aka sub-consciousness, to provide all the answers, to all the questions, that come up with when dealing with every moment or event . Whether they are really happening ‘live’ events (like digging a hole), or imaginary thought created events (like thinking about digging a hole).

And, as I mentioned in “The Thought Police”, as all of these events, or moments, are processed, the results are stored for future reference in your computer memory. So, the next time you ponder ‘How long will it take to get to Joe’s house?’, all of the prior times you went to Joe’s house will be brought up and considered as part of making up the current answer to your question. This time may have a different starting point, or other considerations, but all such information is processed and stored for future references. This saves time and is part of the very efficient design of the human thought process.

This can be very good news or very bad news to you in daily life, depending upon what you focus on. And, here is where the ‘Power of Thinking’ comes into play – whether ‘Positive’ and good, or ‘Negative’ and bad, to your daily life. As you ponder an event over and over, more and more of these previously considered thought processes are developed and used in answering all future ones. The more robust the past number and focus of previous answers to any given question or issue are, the less your consciousness will try and consider the reality of the current situation for what it is, and rely on the old stored information as valid answers to the current situation. In physiological terms, these are called ‘Past Programs’ and can control your life - and they may not have ever even been real, or valid, in the first place…

Just last week, there was a child that was found that had been kidnapped some 10 years ago. The neighbors were stunned when finding out all this, as he had not been locked up and was ‘free’ to communicate and live in the neighborhood for years. When queried about why he had not called the police or ran away, he said that his abductor told him, over and over for years, that he would kill his family if he left or ever told anybody. This was not real, as the abductor would have been put away and his family out of harm’s way, but in this child’s mind, being told that over and over again had developed a large and focused enough ‘Past Program’ that when he allowed himself to think about the freedom that was just outside that door. His mind didn’t consider any of the real possibilities, or opportunities – it just reran the ‘Past Program’, as it was his reality and he created his own prison.

I will bet that there are many readers of this article, at this exact moment, that have created their own little ‘prisons’ they live in, locked in by themselves and they are ‘holding’ the key in their hand…

If most of your thoughts focus on positive things and achieving greatness, then all of your thoughts will have that base to work from. On the other hand, if most of your thoughts contain some type of worry and fear, then all of your thoughts will have to dig through all those issues first, and in my experience, usually get stuck in that morass, before seeing the true light of day for what they really are.

Now, hopefully, are you seeing how the concepts brought up in “The Thought Police” make more sense and you need to put more care into what you think and what does get stored in your computer memory? Have you ever heard the old computer term “Garbage in, Garbage out”? Does it make any more sense now?

In future episodes of this column, we will learn how we can actually directly query our computers to answer direct questions and get immediate and accurate answers to almost any question, how to use our computers to deal with almost situation and/or interaction, trust and respect ourselves, be roll models for ourselves and others, know when we are getting good deals and more importantly getting bad deals, among many other things.

Skilful use of these techniques will result in having a full-time honest view into yourself that will provide all the insight and answers you want to make your life better and more fulfilling.