Nerve cells remember combinations and fire, in context. Then, are we only automatons? But no. We can see, feel and know that we exist. We have a free will, which decides our actions. The neural circuits show a region, which receives all the processed information. The pre-frontal regions, believed to be the seat of consciousness, receives both processed sensory information, current feelings and the recognition images from the association regions.

Thus, the prefrontal regions see and recognize what they see. These regions are also known to have the ability to direct the attention of the mind. Thus, this region exercises will by directing attention and managing motor controls. So you have the ability to see, recognize and even lift your hand whenever you wish. But, no. You can't really lift your hand whenever you wish.

Sitting alone in your room, you can lift your hand whenever you wish. But, can you lift your hand high, say, in a theatre? No. Because fear of public opinion overrules your will. Your limbic system decides that the task is not appropriate. Paul Eckman, the emotions scientist reports that emotions are not your choice. The more primitive limbic system makes those decisions. Not you.

Thus, we come to the final consequences of an understanding of the Intuitive Algorithm concept. We are structured by millions of years of evolution to recognize events in the environment and to generate emotions and feelings. Those emotions drive us to anger, or to the depths of frustration and despair. So long as we let emotions control us, we remain little different from animals.

But, we are blessed with a superior intelligence in our prefrontal regions, our consciousness, to evaluate events and to come to dispassionate conclusions. But this is possible only when strong emotions do not dominate the system. Our will, or a stronger emotion will finally decide our next move. That is why sages across millenniums have suggested the importance of stilling our emotions, to free our will.

Meditation, prayer, and many such practices can still negative emotions. Millions of years of wisdom have been stored in the memories of your nerve cells. Even love and altruism are also inherited emotions. It is an amazing system. Intuition instantly processes vast volumes of inherited and acquired knowledge. Insights from all of history will open to you, when you have stilled your mind and become receptive to the wisdom within you.

These ideas and many more have been presented in this unsual new book, The Intuitive Algorithm. It offers you so many new insights – how we recall memories, how the mind controls the body and even why only a pain nerve impulse is unpleasant. May this book be of benefit to you.

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