CPB, part duh

People hear the term, "conscious part of the brain," and already think they know what that means, already believe they know what that is, but they don't.

All that can ordinarily be known about that, is echoes, overtones, undertones, background noises - the true source of which eluding all but the most persistent investigator.

Let's say someone has said something to you, that "bothers" you, "disturbs" you, and you "find yourself" "thinking about it" afterwards, days later even, and try as you will, the persistent annoying thought keeps arising and you hear it - there might even be images, and certain sounds associated with the thought.

That "hearing" is not the conscious part of the brain, to which I have lately been continuously referring. That "hearing" is memory, stimulated by hormones, chemical, bodily sources - could be anything - but hear you do, and quite likely, identified you become, even if only for a few seconds, until you are distracted by something else.

Most humans, and certainly the greatest majority of humankind -probably 99.99999% - live in this continual state of distraction, and are not annoyed by this at all, as this "result" is the typical "source" of all their supposed thinking. That is, it could be anything: something you recently read on your favorite spiritual or political website, some philosophy text, a chatroom, a tv news channel, whatever, but there it is in you, taking up time and space, and from that instant forward, more time and space is taken up "thinking about it."

The natural reaction to that realization, noted above, is something like, "Well, so what? If it's something I want to think about further, then I've been reminded to think about it further, so, 'that's a good thing'" ("Hey, if it's good enough for Martha Stewart, it's good enough for me!")

Really?
Ya think so?

What's going on, is NOT the conscious part of the brain Thinking, it's memory operating, being driven by chemicals flooding the part of the brain where those neural connections were previously interconnected - like ruts in a road - and you are being forced, yet again, down that same road.

Real Thinking, if such exists, does not utilize memory, or it does not need to utilize memory, except for the recall of words, terms, etc. Anymore than a real explorer needs the map (however well constructed and accurate) of where he's BEEN to explore new territory.

The Thinking part, the conscious part of the brain is not word-based, per se, it is more like energy-based, in that you're thinking with energy, while "controlling" the tendency to remember memories. It's quite like being out in front of all that, not back in the past wherein memory is active. It's being "in the Future."

It could be called, thinking something new, that you had never thought before, and it's a FLASH upon the screen of consciousness that is rarely if ever witnessed, and absolutely of a different "nature" than the continuous flashing upon that same screen of all the noise and chatter in you.