Garden Brain: Update Your Brain Patterns to This New Model And Solve Problems That AI Can Not Solve

a) A structured brain

the brain can organize information like a structured habitat where we have big buildings, hotels, lodges, schools, gyms, shops, and roads that connect to each of them.

Different dishes may be different buildings, cooking styles may be the equipment of your mental gym, a needed resource list may be maintained in the mental shop, available hotels may be in your mental hotels and all of them will connect through roads. The brain chooses the shortest path and least energy investment path to a solution.

So if one was successful in securing food over and over by begging, begging will get the highest priority, and even when every ingredient is already available, the brain will look to beg for food. That is why the “brain doesn’t do things differently and brain always works in one pattern.”

One who is a successful thief will steal in every aspect of life whether he needs it or doesn’t need it, because he has been successful stealing in one aspect, he will do it in all aspects. So one who steals someone else’s job, will steal money, will steal someone’s promotion, will steal someone’s food, and so on.

A structured brain is a more rigid and often opinionated or belief-based brain. This is because past successes and methods are the starting point of this mental colony of solutions. So if one is accustomed to shouting at a partner to try to resolve the conflict, one would shout even when no aggression is required.

A structured brain is often a right-brain dominance. The information of the structured brain is connected in a two-dimensional neural network model(like the roads). This is a more literal model of brain functioning. That means if we say “read this section carefully” you may start reading the section again if you have a structured brain. Reading simply implies reading and nothing else in a structure.

Because the structured brain is like a road path through various models in the brain, the brain extracts information through the shortest path between point A(the problem) to point B(one of the solutions that are easier to reach by the neural network at this point of time). Therefore this type of brain needs clear instructions and commands about the problem and solutions.

When the problem is quantifiable, (for example how to arrange $100 for the next week), the structured brain works best because it always has easy ways to reach to the solution. However, whenever the problem is more abstract in nature(for instance relationship conflict), the structured brain gets confused as there seem to be no definite points. The brain can not reach any conclusive clarity for such problems.

We can summarize the structured brain as follows:

1. Rigid, based on beliefs and opinions.
2. The brain learns more through personal experiences.
3. The brain solves quantifiable problems better but gets confused in abstract problems.
4. The brain can perform repetitive tasks in more efficient ways.
5. The structured brain is habit-driven, and therefore it is very difficult to change the brain.
6. The structured brain works better with concise and clear instructions and commands. (Hence if one knows the belief system, it is easy to manipulate individuals with a structured brain).
7. Different information, skills, and knowledge are often linked via stories.
8. As our imagination plays a major role in constructing stories, this brain can get into imagination, overthinking, rumination, and prediction quite frequently.
9. Feelings play a major role in finding the shortest path to a solution.
10. Because the structured brain is driven by feelings, it seeks enriching experiences.
11. Even though this brain is largely governed by habits, the brain gets bored too easily and too early in repetitive tasks. As frequent boredom is one of the key causes of depression, such a brain is more prone to depressive events.
12. Decisions in a structured brain are much more impulse and instinct-driven. The brain tends to attach logic after a decision is made. So a structured brain can quickly take a decision, but it becomes hard for the brain to be convinced about its decision.
13. One with a structured brain has much more physical ability, and so will be much more charismatic and energetic in a social interaction as the brain consumes less energy(because it always tries to find the shortest path).
14. Because feelings are relative and can only be experienced when there is a change in positive to negative feelings or vice versa, often the brain attracts negative experiences to feel positivity.
15. Because this brain heavily relies on personal experiences, anything that one has observed in life is perceived as truth and anything that is not yet observed is perceived as false.
16. As it is impossible for anyone to experience everything in a single life, anything that one sees for the first time creates a surprise. The brain hates surprises(bad surprises) but loves to give surprises.
17. Because anything unknown or unseen, or unheard, is an abstract model for the brain, and a structured brain doesn’t know how to handle the unknown efficiently, fear of the unknown(which is called anxiety) looms large in this brain.