Memory - Notice or Ignore?

Memory - Notice or ignore?


Technically mind is what brain does, so where does our memory stores? Funny to know that our brain is so powerful yet it has its own blocking system to make us aware of certain thing and neglect other selected impulses. In psychology we studied that the brain has a tendency to do sensitization and habituation, which use to explain the thing we choose to notice and ignore. Example, like while you’re preparing your music scores in a silent room, you will hear the clock ticking or even the sound of the movement of the fan. But slowly when you focus your thoughts to write on the music sheets, your mind starts to ignore those impulses, and your mind will be obsessed by the music you’re thinking to write. Our mind is choosy isn’t it? In the Weber’s law also talk about this, we human can sense an impulse if it reach certain intensity and they called it the threshold. Weber was right, but I wanted to challenge that we can control our thoughts and thus, we can choose consciously to notice something that we use to sense. I got an argument that sometimes when we do like that we will have certain amount of expectation of the things we choose to notice and sometimes we even interpret it wrongly. This makes imaginary senses that don’t exist, and people say this has a tendency of having illusion and hallucination, psychological disorder like schizophrenia and so on. Did you notice that when you start focusing on something, you wouldn’t be able to sense the things other than what your thoughts are focusing on? Since we can’t focus on many things in the same time so can we change our focus fast enough to cope with that? I think so, but it hasn’t come out with a very good outcome. When you study and listening to music, you can either knowing what you are reading and listen to some unknown sounds playing or you can only hears and think about the music and you can keep on reading aloud without understanding what you are reading.

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Futher updates and findings will be dicuss later on. I am going to make this another topic in my blogs. Happy reading = )