I forgot something

I think it is a common experience when we know that we have forgotten something but can't recall what it was.

It implies that the consciousness engine is not fed with the complete content of a thought. The engine only gets access to a set of pointers/impression/reflection of thoughts. The thoughts themselves reside somewhere else. To process a thought the engine first accesses the pointer and then processes the complete thought via that pointer. When a pointer loses the contact with the original thought content it causes that feeling of have forgotten something.

Actually a lot of time I get another picture:
Thought/impulse pointers scrolling automatically and endlessly in front of my consciousness engine. The engine doesn't really respond to all of them and lets them go past. Based on some judgement it pauses the scroll every now and then and picks a few and processes/consumes them selectively.

Feedback system for muscle movement

The other night I dozed off on my study table. In that process I pushed by pen off the table. To my surprise even in that state of mind I had already realized the fall and stretched my hand to intercept the trajectory so that the pen could be caught before reaching the floor.

Well let me clarify first that I am not the person under the cloak of Spiderman.

What was revealing to me that our brain deals with movement control using a feedback system. Each movement effort expects a feedback. While wide awake this loop is so fast that we never realize its presence. But in that half sleepy state of mind, it revealed how that feedback cycle works by anticipating the trajectory of the fall in future.

The way my brain thinks

There is a way my brain thinks. I could sense/observe these:

• It always thinks in small tiny units. It holds the thinking within that unit and then something happens and it jumps to the other unit. Not sure whether this unit has a sense of time or not.
• Each unit has its own context. It obeys the rules of that context. The context is based on the previous experiences and biases. These contexts are not like those "free thinking" phrases coined by some. These contexts are very narrow. It is as if you are running blindfolded in a narrow tunnel. You will be guided and steered by the walls of the tunnel. It is not like a wild horse running in a vast green, beautiful field spread between infinite horizons. I can reflect right away that my expression and imagination of this wild horse itself is bound within the boundaries of a previous experience. My brain never violates the rules of a context.
• But it really jumps from one context to another. These contexts are chained to each other. They are again bound to each other due to previous experiences. They are not chained to each other just randomly. One of the most interesting association links is the concept of Analogy. A context could chain to other due to some common factor called analogy.
• Because we are bound within contexts most of the time we communicate effortlessly. Imagine one fine morning I greet somebody and I receive a hurl of abuses in return! Out of context?
• Even the poets express themselves within contexts. If there is a mismatch in contexts I won't appreciate the work of art.

  I am such a narrow minded person! Depressed, sigh.